David Peach – love a good story

30th May 2026

In the fire and the flames

I’m super proud of this one.

Taken at the village in the north of the map – I’ll update the post when I find out the name again.

The fire used to save progress was used to almost show her walking through the flames.

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27th May 2026

Gliding down to the Tallneck

Aloy glides down from the Cinnabar Sands satellite dish, towards the head of the Tallneck.

I died far too many times from the two Scrappers and Skydrifter on site — with no metal shards left at the start of the encounter no less.

I should add that I’m playing on ultra hard mode (not new game plus). So I’m essentially naked at this point in the game. :S

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25th May 2026

Climbing Post

I’ve been trying to get some PlayStation time in again.

It’s been a while with two small children about.

I took this shot of Aloy just after the battle at the Forbidden West gates near the start of Horizon: Forbidden West.

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8th May 2026

Capturing the stories

I have an internet friend who was also once my boss.

He writes a lot over on his blog — he writes blogging tips, short stories, cyberpunk, funny/quirky tales.

I find it inspiring for myself wanting to create short stories too.

Not short stories in books — just blog-length ones.

I tend to get little ideas of “what ifs” pop in my head now and again, but most end up getting forgotten.

I need to start using my notebook again.

As I write this, the tap is dripping, and I am thinking “Maybe a story about the frustrations of a dripping tap”.

We’ll see.

This post is one of those thoughts too: the thought that I should start to just write the ideas that I have.

No filter.

No excuses.

Let’s see how this goes.

#writing #blogging

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24th March 2026

Vim :: Search and replace across multiple files

From within Vim, you can search all files for a string/pattern with the following ex command.

Replace “string_to_find” with your search string. The path given as example is every file under the app directory recursively.

:vimgrep /string_to_find/ ./app/**/*

That command will put all occurances of the string into your quickfix list.

You can then run a command on each instance of that with the following command:

:cdo s/string_to_find/new_string/gc

This runs a substitution for each entry in the quickfix list.

The `g` flag is “global” which means if the occurance happens multiple times on the same line it will replace all. Otherwise it will only replace the first instance on each line.

The `c` flag is to “confirm” each change. Each change it tries to make, it will ask you to specifically answer yes or no to change it. I prefer this for most things.

You can then either manually write each file you have changed, or use the following command to save all the files that have been changed: