My activity list for today:
- Archery
- Canoeing
- Jet Ski
- Wakeboarding

Followed by
- Island Flyover

#WiiSportsResort #NintendoWii #Wii
https://youtu.be/5jW2TsgPxno

Hands in the air this week for #NewMusicMix 🙌

"Come in out of the Rain” by Lawrence Hart
https://album.link/i/1811688280

I hate to be so reductive because it does have a vibe of its own, but fans of the more dance side of Fred Again.. will probably be pleased (I was)

@jfaulken Monokai is by far the most performance-enhancing $12 I've ever spent...through TextMate, Sublime Text, CotEditor (still use this), Nova

I asked ai chat bots for a gut-feel/vibe-check rating out of 5 for all current notable tech companies; keeping in mind recent misses, press mentions, enviromental & social impact.

ChatGPT gave the most fair/accurate ratings.

Special mention to Meta AI which awarded itself 1/5.

Back on The Painted Word "Lovelife" repeat cycle. 🥰

Surely worth a blog post:

Monokai Pro Vibrant theme for Nova editor
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/05/14/monokai-pro-vibrant-theme-for-nova-editor/

Updated: Monokai Pro Vibrant (my fork of a theme by Tony Keiser) for Nova editor to have *italic* comments.

https://github.com/gingerbeardman/Monokai-Pro-Vibrant.novaextension/releases/

It’s a busy week for new releases so let’s get started #NewMusicMix

“Happier” by Fickle Friends
https://song.link/i/1803146210

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyo97qsgSIE

The best game dev days are the days when you make a revelatory breakthrough in game feel. 🗓️👌😎✨

It’s a busy week for new releases so let’s get started #NewMusicMix

“Happier” by Fickle Friends
https://song.link/i/1803146210

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyo97qsgSIE

Hokusai in Nantes, France 🇫🇷 this summer thanks to loans from Hokusai-kan Museum, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵

From June 28 to September 7, 2025
https://www.chateaunantes.fr/expositions/exposition-hokusai/

https://greatwavetoday.com

Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds
https://theconversation.com/some-reddit-users-just-love-to-disagree-new-ai-powered-troll-spotting-algorithm-finds-255879

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/swiftkey

10 days ago, I switched my iOS software keyboard from Google Gboard to Microsoft SwiftKey. The first week was tough as it learnt my swiping and pecking style, but now I’m flying! The built-in clipboard manager lets me combine two keyboards into one. It’s really very good.

@rh2 the hardest part was, and always is, the game design. Mechanics, interactions, game feel. Tool creation was tricky but fun and didn't take that long (I used Python & Qt for the main tool). Programming at this level is more of a time sink rather than a difficulty barrier, we're not talking encryption or state of the art algorithms. Graphics was 3D to 2D workflow & plans for additional hand-drawn pixel art. Doing it again: I would pay somebody with more pitch experience to do a better deck!

Another abandoned project: this time it's a remaster of PC-98 Band-kun, later reimagined as a totally new game called Beatnik, for Playdate

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/05/11/abandoned-project-bandkun-beatnik-for-playdate/

Remember this? 2004.

"Handwriting" by Khonnor
https://khonnor.bandcamp.com/album/handwriting

My mum just asked me to listen to her gardener's voice mail music as "he's not picking up". It was a song by The Weeknd. It's Saturday. I like his style. 😂

Another abandoned project: Otaku! was my multi-site shopping app for iOS which allowed automatic entering of favourite search terms and organising your tabs to prioritise your choice of storefronts and/or proxy companies.

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/05/10/abandoned-project-multi-site-shopping-app/

@morten_skaaning will do! but at what point? ASAP?