Recent Interests #

Here I list stuff I’ve been interested in recently. I try to update this monthly, using a recurring task to help. I probably forget a lot of things that happen each month :(.

2025 #

February #

• Routesetting for the Rain City Send climbing competition
• Fixing toilet flapper and garbage disposal for tenants
• Several iterations of B. Dylan Hollis bean pie
• Discovered chickpea flour is good for mug breads
• Night Agent season 2
• FTL: Multiverse
• Dark and Darker Wizard
• Building my Lintilla custom keyboard
• Wingman in Counter Strike
• Arkham Horror Dunwich Campaign
• Alt Health thinking
• Reading ACX, like https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-i-am-not-a-conflict-theorist

March #

• Terra Mystica on BGA and in person
• Writing lots of SQL at work
• Read Gary Stevenson’s book about his life and watched a bunch of videos about wealth inequality. Guy is charismatic, but a bit vague - a dangerous but entertaining combo!
• Saw Russian Circles live at the showbox. Incredible!
• Windows crashed during an update, prompted me to try going 100% Linux going forward. Working surprisingly well.
• Tried Due Process, good first impression!
• Dark and Darker and FTL: Multiverse continue to be amazing.

April #

• Started playing The Bazaar with Claire. Really fun, if a bit tiring to do a single run all at once.
• Watched a bunch of Dave MacLeod videos and tried out a mostly meat diet. It felt pretty good at first, but less good over time. I think I’d need to be particularly motivated to try it more purely for an extended period of time.
• Had a bunch of computer issues to debug. Namely some black screen crashes when playing cleric in Dark and Darker(which I think were fixed by decreasing particle count in a custom Engine.ini file), and some slowness with The Last Spell which prompted me to upgrade my cpu (which didn’t seem to help :().
• Still writing lots of SQL at work. Had a brutal bug to debug where function arguments were being overwritten by aliased column names in a query.
• Checked out Taskmaster and Ted Lasso, both pretty great in their own ways
• Played a bunch of Tarkir: Dragonflight draft first in person then on MTG: Arena.

May #

• V Rising
• Epic saga trying to debug my computer not sleeping after replacing CPU: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2244784#p2244784
• Send long term black 5.12+ project at the IMA crags
• Started going out climbing at the exits again, feeling strong!
• Started running to/from work, way better than I expected.
• Started working in neuroscience research project https://github.com/kovasap/nightly-nwb
• Started working on new drafting game idea https://github.com/kovasap/draft-concept
• Got back into R6: siege a bit

June #

• Switched to AMD GPU and better AMD CPU. Fixed my computer sleep problem finally, and struggled a bit to get the new CPU to stay cool with low fan noise.
• Dark and Darker content creator drama (NotLikeThis/Soma).
• Learned how to use syncthing to manage music between PC and Android. Really impressive piece of software!
• Spent a lot of time on https://github.com/kovasap/draft-concept, making progress, but also shifting things around a lot.
• Working version of https://github.com/kovasap/nightly-nwb created!
• Lots of attempts on Rainy Day Woman at World Wall. Very close, but still a hard route. Need to be better about finding and trusting footholds, and then remembering them.
• Ark Nova is fun.
• Ate a bunch of iceberg lettuce salads. E.g. tortilla chips/mayo/lettuce/shredded carrots.
• Selling old Pokemon cards I discovered. Quite a labor intensive process to price and sell them all.
• The Bazaar continues to be great!

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