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.

Travel

🇮🇹 Naples and Rome, Italy: I went to Italy for the first time this year. I'm interested in greco-roman archeology, so we stayed in Naples and visited the museum, Vesuvius, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. We also went on a day trip to Rome, and saw the Colleseum, Roman Forum, and a fountain and some steps.
🇩🇪 Berlin and Hamburg, Germany: I went to Godotcon 24 in Berlin. I also went to Hamburg to see the Miniatur Wunderland
🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium: I represented Luanti (formerly known as Minetest) at FOSDEM 24 and 25.
🇫🇷 Nîmes, France: we chose to go here because of the Roman history, the amphitheatre is pretty cool.
🇬🇷 Athens and Delphi, Greece: I recently got a little obsessed with Ancient Greek mythology and culture, and decided to go visit Athens and Delphi.

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. I'm the tech lead for a new React Native application, but I was previously working on a native Android app.

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

Factorio: I avoided buying Factorio for years as I knew it would consume me. I was right. It's very fun, especially when you lean into using trains. Plus it's fun to manage relations with the neighbours.
RimWorld: Odyssey: RimWorld is my favourite game of all time. The Odyssey DLC recently released, which means it's time to get back into the game.
Cities: Skylines: After getting bored of OpenTTD, I decided to look for other games to play. I've owned Cities: Skylines for a few years but it didn't run on my laptop. It does run on my Steam Deck however. My focus is on making walkable cities with great public transport. I like seeing all the little people moving around.

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