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A photo of a bowl of ice cream, with Ice Magic, chopped up strawberries, and crushed peanuts on top.

At work for the past slightly under two weeks I've been drafted into getting the internal documentation for our new platform wrangled into a better state (where the current state is basically "it's been written by individual effort from a bunch of devs who've all been operating mostly independently and also the platform is changing almost week by week and nobody has had time to look at things with a customer-focused eye"). I'm pretty well known as The Documentation Guy and so bringing me in to help has been basically bringing in the big guns.

It's been really interesting and I'm learning lot, plus everyone is really nice and helpful and answers my endless questions, but man is it draining. So this is an extremely TGIF bowl of ice cream. One more week to go and then I have three weeks off and let me tell you I am very excited.

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Posted on 12 December 2025, 19:26

A photo of two of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. The right-hand piece is the one I'd previously finished, but the left-hand one has a cool almost Egyptian-feeling doorway in it where the top half of the doorway sides tilt inwards. It's got a big chunky door frame painted in dark green and the door has three gold-coloured Necron scarabs on its surface.

Wall piece number two is down, plus one of the connectors and a door! (And not pictured, another one of the "doors" that looks like a bunch of lightning).

I had briefly thought about painting Hexwraith Flame into the little gaps in the connector pieces to make it look like it was glowing but quickly decided that I cannot be fucked.

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Posted on 7 December 2025, 18:02

A photo of our little homebrewed outdoor/indoor temperature sensor dashboard showing that it's currently 44.4˚C outside (and a delightful 24˚C inside thanks to our air conditioning).

Okay this is ridiculous.

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Posted on 6 December 2025, 15:02

A photo of one of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. In the middle of the wall there's a misshapen section missing because there's another section that gets plugged in when you're playing and you can breach the wall at that point and blow it out, which means you need to take the missing piece out so it can act as a doorway.

SUCCESS!

The drybrushing didn't go as well as I'd hoped (it's already too light for it to really work), so I've had to manually highlight everything which means this is not going to be a quick project. 😅 But I'm really happy with how it's all come together. I really liked the hazard stripes above the doors on the top of my Into The Dark terrain as a really obvious way to highlight "HEY THERE'S A DOOR HERE, THE ENEMY MIGHT COME THROUGH IT" and I had been pondering how to do that here but without being yellow and black hazards stripes because that wouldn't really go. Turns out hazard stripes still work fine, you just need to theme them!

I'll need to tidy up the edges of the stripes and put a white highlight along the top wall edge, but these are going to look really sharp on the tabletop when I eventually get everything finished. I'm thinking I'll paint the Necrons themselves in a similar colour scheme as well.

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Posted on 4 December 2025, 21:47

A photo of ten serves of my Mexican lentil rice in individual tupperware containers. It's got rice, lentils, black beans, corn, and green beans in it, and there's some tomato paste and one of the spices is smoked paprika so it has a reddish hue.

A photo of an open-faced cheese and tomato toastie on two slices of my home-made bread. The cheese is golden-brown and looks delicious, and on top of the cheese is a bunch of chopped up capsicum. The bread is sitting on a white dinner plate.

A photo of fifty-four small round miso chocolate chip cookies sitting on two cooling racks.

The deliciousness continued today with a batch of my Mexican lentil rice for weekday leftovers, a toastie for lunch on my bread from yesterday, and then finally miso chocolate chip cookies to have with my afternoon coffee!

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 16:11

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain bluetacked onto pieces of cardboard so I could airbrush the primer onto them. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves. The whole lot has been undercoated in black then a white applied from a high angle so it catches the tops of all the surfaces and fades down darker as it goes down.

Definitely making progress here, the terrain — sans the scatter pieces — has been primed and zenithalled (yes that's now a word)!

My plan is to drybrush some pure white to bring out the details a bit more, then hopefully I can get away with painting just the crumbling wall parts that are covering the Necron walls and I can leave the Necron walls themselves as they are, just with some details picked out, and it'll look cool and clean and futuristic behind the crumbling. I'm not sure how it'll work in practice, it might still look unfinished, I'll have to try a test piece first.

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 13:42

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread dusted with flour sitting on a cooling rack.

A photo of an outdoor table with various foods on it: sliced up steak, sausages, and several varieties of salads.

A photo of a light brown Cocker Spaniel (I think? I forgot to ask) sitting on a low lounge and partially atop a cushion.

Today has been a day of deliciousness, it started with bread and then we went over to a friend's place for a barbecue and got to hang out with their dog. 🎉 Then we finished off the barbecue with cake (not pictured), and I am very full right now.

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Posted on 29 November 2025, 21:51

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain sitting attached together on my painting table. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves.

Right, the Tomb World terrain has been liberated from its sprues, next stop is priming!

The new connection method Games Workshop has for this terrain seems to be pretty improved over what they did for Into The Dark, I didn't do any filing or sanding for the Tomb World terrain here and everything has mostly fit together without issue.

(Necrons in the middle for scale.)

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Posted on 23 November 2025, 10:02

A photo of the full Hivestorm game board with all the terrain on it. It's all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere, and along the top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides there is snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate.

A close-up shot of the rear of the largest piece of ruined building terrain. There's a solid-looking red metal door at the bottom that's been partially smashed in, and pipes snaking along the outside going up that are broken off in various places. It used to be a three-storey building but the first floor has been completely blown apart and has just a relatively small section of flooring still showing, and the second storey is barely enough for a single miniature to fit on. There's snow on all of the tops of the ruin.

A close-up of the middle of the board where theres some of the smaller scatter terrain. There are some pieces of wall (or possibly floor) that have been blown into the ground vertically that are providing cover, and the very battered top off a large metal vat sitting on top of a small mound of other pieces of ruin. Two of my all-women Astra Militarum squad are in the middle facing off against three hulking and disgusting-looking Plague Marines who are clad in pustulant green armour.

In what might be a new record for me, I have a set of Kill Team terrain finished in slightly over a year since I bought the box. 😅 This is all from the Hivestorm box, and I'm really happy with how the weathering came out. I used Dirty Down's rust effect for the first time for this, it required a little trial and error before I got it looking how I wanted, but on the bright side it was easy enough to reactivate with water and just re-do it where I didn't like how it first came out.

Big props to @[email protected] for the underlying drybrushing technique, and I can't claim credit for the snow idea because I saw that, uh, somewhere else online, but I think I did a pretty excellent job of it.

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Posted on 19 November 2025, 18:45

A photo of a standard-looking silver 16" M1 MacBook Pro sitting on my desk. It has two Deep Space Nine stickers on it, one shows has Garak the Cardassian from the chest up standing there smiling with his hands up as if in greeting, he's looking very pleased and it says "Friend of Garak". Behind him is a rainbow. The other sticker is Major Kira holding a Bajoran phaser upwards in front of her and pressing a button on top of it, with the caption "This machine kills fascists." (Presumably she's setting her phaser to kill.)

This toot is brought to you by my ex-work MacBook Pro that I installed Asahi Linux on! (I figured I'd chuck a couple of stickers on it to distinguish it from my completely and utterly identical-looking M4 MacBook Pro work machine that arrived last week.)

Gotta say I'm extremely impressed with the job the Asahi team has done, the installer was a breeze, it all Just Worked and I even have working brightness and audio keys (and audio!) out of the box! I decided to go for the KDE environment, partially because I haven't used that since 2003 when I took this screenshot of KDE 3.1 back under Mac OS X when I was mucking around with running XWindows inside it, and partially because that's the Asahi team's main focus in terms of polish. I haven't pushed it yet but just doing light browsing and general poking around getting things set up, the battery life is exactly what I'd expect the machine to be under macOS; right now it's reading 85% charge and 10 hours of battery life remaining, and it's completely cool and silent.

I haven't looked into the keyboard shortcut swapping yet (having Ctrl-C be copy everywhere except in a terminal session where you have to remember to use Ctrl-Shift-C irritates the bejesus out of me every time, and in general I find the ergonomics of having the Command key position being the primary modifier to be far superior to Control) but that'll probably be my next mini-project. I got 1Password working, although they don't have a proper distribution of aarch64 binaries yet so I'm having to start it in a terminal session like some sort of barbarian. The browser extension works fine at least.

[EDIT] Well that was easy, someone wrote a thing called Toshy that takes all the hard work out of remapping everything!

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Posted on 26 October 2025, 20:14