David Peach

Notes

Just fleeting thoughts that pop into my mind. Or perhaps things I’ve been thinking about that don’t really warrant a full-on post.

  • Lead to the river, midsummer, I waved
    A ‘V’ of black swans on with hope to the grave.
    All through Red September with skies fire-paved
    I begged you appear like a thorn for the holy ones

    — Nymphetamine. Lyrics by Dani Filth

  • Nymphetamine album — Cradle of Filth

    Released in 2004, this is one of my favourite albums from my younger days.

    Thanks to a work mate, my love for this band has been re-ignited. I have been listened to their albums lots over the past couple of weeks, but this one has stood out to me above most.

    Possibly helped along from the nostalgia I feel for this album.

    Stand out songs for me

    • Track 2 — Gilded Cunt
    • Track 3 — Nemesis
    • Track 5 — Nymphetamine overdose

  • So the whole “No mask no entry” rule in is basically bullshit. Every time I’m in there I see at least one person not wearing one.

  • Sorting through and moving all of my photos from google photos into ProtonDrive. In preparation for finally deleting my google account once and for all. ProtonDrive offers encrypted storage that perfectly meets my needs — secure storage that actually cares about privacy.

  • Ellie has been cast in Last of Us TV Series

    Ellie has been cast in Last of Us TV Series

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/last-of-us-game-of-thrones-breakout-bella-ramsey-to-star-as-ellie

    I think this is a great choice — she was great in Game of Thrones and that strength of character I can see playing Ellie.

  • Oh golly I just found the back up of my old website with loads and loads of old posts I thought Id lost. 💚

  • Can’t be touched – Roy Jones Jr

  • Uninstalled Resident Evil 0. That game is infuriating. Maybe I’ll try again in 2022.

  • Completely forgot Cradle of Filth did a cover of Devil Woman. Incredible. 💚

  • Completed Horizon Zero Dawn Platinum trophy

    Completed Horizon Zero Dawn Platinum trophy

    Horizon Zero Dawn platinum achievement for getting all trophies in the base game

  • The House on the Strand

    Selected Quotes

    I remembered that the tide had been out, the stretches of flat sand exposed, the row of bathing-huts, lined like denture in an open mouth, forming a solid background to the golden expanse.

    from The House on the Strand — Chapter One

    The small, pane-less windows gave little light, the aperture tight closed by oiled parchment, while the lighted candles standing on the trestle table at the bed’s foot threw monstrous shadows on ochre-coloured walls.

    from The House on the Strand — Chapter Six

    Fediverse reactions

  • Setting up my own labs

    I’m going to begin setting up my own “labs” area to play around with various web technologies.

    For the longest time now I have been holding myself back quite a bit by only really learning technologies around current roles at the time and for my own personal site. This has mainly revolved around Laravel and to a lesser extent WordPress.

    Whilst I will continue to love both of those projects, I do want to start pushing myself to learn things that are completely out of my comfort zone.

    I will also begin writing more about my learning, discoveries and new things that excite me in web development — something I haven’t done for a long while.