What are you doing this week?

As far as tools go, I have a springbar tool and that's it (to change my strap from NATO to bracelet when the season changes).

For my kids' watches I should get a blade because paying 8EUR on a battery change every time on a 20EUR watch, doesn't make that much sense really.

Other than that learning how it works and getting some tools is a nice hobby. I'd definitely consider either a kit where you build your own watch or scrounge a bunch of parts together from Alibaba and mod something together.

I bought a 200EUR Orient dive watch 3-4 years ago to get back into it and it's a watch that I wear daily and that is still going strong.

Its actually pretty interesting (if you like editing audio). We recorded a direct line out of the microphone into one track, and placed overhead mics on the stage facing the audience to capture the laughter in stereo (two microphones, one panned left and one panned right). That is what we call "capture". We record two nights which are more or less the same set from the Comic. Which ever night had the hottest crowd is usually used as a base for the album and then the edits happen around that.

Editing is really about making sure the three tracks are aligned (pretty easy in a DAW like Reaper), and usually cutting the pauses, the ums and ahs, and sometimes padding the punchline with laughter from the other night. If the delivery of the joke is better from the other night, we will sub it in and keep going. To answer you question about if its tricky for the cuts itself, that's where I pride myself in being particularly good at this kind of work. I have years of experience editing podcasts and this will be my sixth comedy album I've recorded and edited since 2018.

There is also a lot of mixing that goes into it, making sure the volumes of the Comic and the Crowd are pleasant and give you the illusion that you're in the crowd for the show, but also get you influenced to laugh by the existing laughing (laughter is a communal activity, the more other people laugh the more you laugh).

Wouldn't Terraform do that for you? It's been a while since I touched it but from what I remember they have Github providers.

Prepparing for a gamejam, watching my servers on new infra and ripping old The Sims discs, figuring out what NoCD patches they need and preparing for a new sprint at work.

Also, obligatorily drinking loads of coffee; of course.

I brushed off a Rust game engine project I started like 5 years ago where developement slowed to a trickle because graphics programming is very hard and even harder when you barely ever do it.

My amazing engine will be more amazing than Unreal and Unity combined, just give me 200 years.

One interesting thing about said engine is that it's actually a UI system of sorts at the base level. If you just want to display a 2D camera view, you make a 2D camera widget on the screen and tell it to fill the window. It's kinda like how Godot works I guess.

It also has a lot of other fancy stuff, like a custom ECSish thing, a de/serialisation system that can do nested prefabs, and a reflection system with its own derive macro. You might ask "why not use the bevy crates that do that stuff?" - well to that I say, I wrote them before the bevy equivalents were available. Also it's fun to write it myself. And also my design is necessarily different to bevy's.

Anyways. That's what I'm doing this week.

far too much. i said yes to too many contracts when i went back to full time freelance work a couple of months ago when i couldn't find a job and i've been busting hump for a few weeks now. that dust will settle and i'll get into a rhythm eventually but hopefully i won't hit a famine cycle anytime soon.

beyond that, i'm still looking for an open source project to spend an hour or two a week on. all of the things i'd normally work on aren't built with tools i use daily. i'd like to find something where i can sharpen my saw a little (not as a primary benefit but as a nice side effect).

i'm also going to explore bootleg football games a little more, especially for the PS2. i went down a rabbit hole of patches this weekend and i'm excited to learn about and play some more titles.