I’ve wanted forever to unify my blog with both long form (essays) and short form (micro posts). And I think I’ve finally managed to pull it off in a way I’m happy with (not perfect mind you, but satisfactory). Will need to figure out the cross-posting bit and a more pleasant publishing step, but having them unified removes a mental hurdle I always had when writing.

Hazbin Hotel

Masterpiece! I can’t believe I’m so late to this… This is everything I could ever want in a show. The music is out of this world, the voice acting is better than most Broadway A-list shows, the art is pitch perfect! Now, to dive into Helluva Boss.

10/10

Unfortunately, there is one aspect of Zen/Firefox that doesn’t look to be configurable (that will probably be a deal breaker without a lot of retraining my brain) – The Location Bar won’t autocomplete to browsing history first ahead of executing a search for the string in the field. Example: If I’ve been to espn.com, in Arc if I type “es” then the first thing that matches is the history entry and I can just type “es↩” and go. In Firefox, the default first entry is to execute a search for the string “es” and the second entry is “espn.com” if I’m lucky (requiring “es↓↩”). It doesn’t look like this behavior is configurable either.

As a precautionary measure, running an experiment with Zen Browser as an Arc replacement. Given a bit of customization, I was fairly happy with the result. The recent Arc updates are essentially Chromium upgrades which really isn’t surprising given the company’s pivot to Dia (a new AI focused browser). Definitely not for me, so I’m glad Zen is at a point where I can drop it in.

Oshi no Ko 2nd Season

Doga Kobo is on an absolute tear. While this season may not have the punch of the first (and I missed the OP & ED) I loved every aspect (and very glad I waited until the end of the season to binge it)

10/10

Took out my trumpet to record a bit. Can only do about 15 minutes before lips get too tired, but was nice to get it oiled up and making sound again. Still frustrated that I can’t seem to find my SM57s after the remodel. Was holding off on getting new mics thinking they might turn up, but no dice.

Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria

None of the charm of Dungeon but with all the production values (trailed off at the end - You could tell they ran out of money in the last third as every action shot was matched with one or two stills) The discrimination conflict just isn’t believable and is far too repetitive.

6/10

Interesting that again there was a huge spike but no long tail in artist accounts moving from Twitter/X to Bluesky. I was expecting a longer tail as what seemed to be a critical mass took action, but maybe it has to do the venn diagram of communities.

I think this latest dick move has finally pushed the rest of the artists I used to follow on twitter to create accounts on bluesky and I’m 100% here for it. My timeline is finally starting to feel like it did a few years ago.

A Call For a Multi-Network Client

Ready for a future with two major social networks