What makes a good song to play at a funeral?
19 Apr 2025
Okay yeah look, this is a bit of a morbid concept for a blog post. If I’m being honest, I don’t even really like thinking about the crushing finality that comes with a funeral. But also, I have to admit that I am fascinated about the process of picking a song for such a sombre event. It’s really easy to make a playlist full of bangers or that follows some kind of theme, but I don’t think many people think about picking out the last song they’ll ever “hear”. So let’s talk about it - what makes a good song to play at a funeral?
tagged: personal
It was a real Journey to the Centre of Our Alerting
16 Jan 2025
Throughout my time at my current gig, I have had an ongoing nemesis - alerting. For the longest time, my team has been besieged by an overwhelming amount of alerts. Recently, the opportunity finally arose for us to be able to deal with them, and I thought it’d be good to document how we’ve started our journey in getting our alerting back into a healthy place.
tagged: work
Is it redundant to say they're my top 5 if I'm the only one who posts?
06 Jan 2025
It’s time for the thirteenth most prestigious Game of the Year to be announced! We’re doing a format change this year: instead of me talking about all the games I played that released in 2024, we’re doing a Top 5 with some honourable mentions. This is absolutely not because I was too lazy to write 16 separate reviews.
tagged: video games, review
Another year, another banger year of IGBC
21 Dec 2024
Another year, another Indie Game Book Club retrospective! If you’re unfamiliar with what I’m talking about, the short of it is that we’re a group who gets together to play a new game roughly once a month and then talk about it together. I thought it’d be good to look back on the year, talk about what we did differently and once again share my reviews for all the games we played.
tagged: igbc, review, video games
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I think most of my post descriptions are meta so why break the streak of it now
17 Dec 2024
I wonder how many times I’ll open a blog post acknowledging the large gap since I last posted. At least this time it serves as a framing device for an article! So yeah, hey it’s been a whille since I wrote anything that wasn’t my vows. I got busy with getting married, but more than that, it’s because I fell out of the routine of writing and lost all momentum I had with it.
tagged: personal