Now

What have I been up to and focusing on recently?

Life

New city

I recently moved to London after living in Bristol for almost a decade. I wanted a change and I'm looking forward to experiencing what the big city has to offer.

Yearly Theme

My theme for 2024 is fitness^{how original}. I've been running regularly since the start of the year and doing strength training at the gym.

Travel

🇬🇷 Athens and Delphi, Greece: I recently got a little obsessed with Ancient Greek mythology and culture, and decided to go visit Athens and Delphi.
🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium: I represented Luanti (formerly known as Minetest) at FOSDEM 24.
🇫🇷 Nîmes, France: we chose to go here because of the Roman history, the amphitheatre is pretty cool.
🇩🇪 Berlin and Hamburg, Germany: I went to Godotcon 24 in Berlin. I also went to Hamburg to see the Miniatur Wunderland

A cat sitting on the walls of a ruin. In the background, the Temple of Hephaestus. — A cat in front of the Temple of Hephaestus, the Ancient Agora of Athens.

Career

I'm working as a mobile app developer for a software consultancy. My current project is using React Native but I was previously working on native Android apps.

I recently became a line manager. I'm still a software engineer - we don't have separate management, senior+ engineers are expected to manage others.

Hobby and Open Source

I have reduced the amount of time I spend on Luanti (Minetest) and other projects to focus more on life goals.

When I do have spare time, I'm learning Godot and electronics. I'm currently working on an app to rate coffee, a plant watering system, and a few small Godot games.

I'm learning French using Duolingo. I have a streak of over a year!

Media

Video Games

Project Zomboid: Addicting both in singleplayer and co-op with friends!
Half-Life and Half-Life 2: With the recent HL and HL2 anniversaries, I decided to play Half-Life for the first time. I completed it, and now I'm replaying HL2.
Lethal Company: This is a great game to play with a group of friends. It's surprisingly funny with organic comedic timing.
Phasmophobia: With friends.
Age of Empires II: I organised a LAN party this year with the same group of friends. Looking for some good games to play, we chose AoE II. We've been playing it online since.

Check out my Steam Profile .

Reading

My reading list includes:

Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey
The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses - Jesee Schell
A Theory of Fun for Game Design - Raph Koster
Designing Interfaces - Jenifer Tidwell
Ruined by Design - Mike Monteiro
Mythos - Stephen Fry