I started this blog to share my thoughts on boardgaming and to practice some of my software development skills. It has since evolved into much more, enjoy!

While Gaming

Viscounts April 22, 2026 A deck building resource management game that centers around a large rondel board. You play a card into your river and it does something when played, when in your river and/or when it falls off your river. Then you move you token around a board in a circular direction, doing the action you land on. It's a good game, with a strong emphasis on milling your deck.

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While Reading

Service Model - Adrian Tchaikovsky April 12, 2026 A post apocalypse robot story, following a valet robot who appears to have gained some level of sentience. Really good and well written, with a strong dry wit. It gets a slight be repetitive towards the end but definitely worth the read. 4/5

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While Coding

Email Blog August 4, 2025 Finally I have my email to blog pipeline built! Multiple years in the making. Claude Code greatly reduced the effort and complexity of building and hosting it on Digital Ocean. I only see a future with more custom software now that AI can assist with development.

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While Blogging

LLM experiences August 10, 2025 my journey with AI tools read more

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