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.

📝 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Notes

You know what? Fuck Google. Just when I think I couldn’t hate them more. Exporting my previous uploaded music (about 100gb worth) from their Play Music service. Do they put the songs into Artist / Album folders?

Nope.

Instead they package it up into 54 zipped folders and stick random songs along with loads of csv files with dumb stats in.

Seriously.

Now I’ll have to write a little script to read the song meta data and organise into folders myself.

I’ll share the script once it’s done and tested.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

📰 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Notes

After seeing so many good things said about it, and seeing some many gorgeous photos taken in it, I finally started playing Hellblade.

My first impression is that this game is so thrilling to play, once the combat begins to open up.

There is a really interesting “perma-death” mechanic which, although I don’t fully understand the rules, does mean that I am super switched on at every moment of the game.

The world looks stunning. And the story development through finding stone tablets in the world is an interesting way to fill out that world’s history.

📝 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Notes

Started working on a side project I’m calling “Pitch”. It’s an end to end encrypted website starter inspired by SiteJS by the Small Technology Foundation.

Got a basic vue app set up with the vue-cli but now can’t work out why my private key generator sometimes returns what I expect — a Uint8Array — and more often a mess of random characters.

Am I misunderstanding something I wonder?

📝 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Notes

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

⁉️ Posted on by David Peach | Category: Notes

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

📝 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Notes

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.