Notes

by Chris McLeod

I’ve been farming Heroic Antorus in WoW for nearly 2 months now, and the remaining transmog items just refuse to drop. I’ve had of repeats from the mail set, but it’s the cloth set I want! 

by Chris McLeod

Moving my Bluesky data to a self hosted PDS has been almost entirely seamless and pain free. I’m actually impressed. The only thing that’s broken is cross-posting to Bluesky using Echofeed. Which is unfortunate, but something I can live with. I’ll figure out a fix or alternative when I have some time.

by Chris McLeod

I’m looking at getting an ultra-wide monitor, as an upgrade to my aging 24". The head says a 34" is the sensible, practical choice, but the heart is saying to go full hog with a 49" model that would be wider than my desk…

by Chris McLeod

The local Xmas market is in the process of being set up, which means my normally super- convenient bus service is being diverted for the next 2 months. I got to experience the new route today and it feels like they’ve picked the most inaccessible changes possible — especially for the return route.

by Chris McLeod

I’ve spent the last 2 days disassembling and/or moving large pieces of furniture. I’m feeling it today, but got at least a couple more days ahead and then some assembly.

I’m getting too old for this 😅

by Chris McLeod

I completely missed the Apple event was happening (it’s been that busy). Just caught up and: shrug. My phone is 2 years old and I don’t need to update. Apple say they’ll give me £360 trade-in value towards a preorder, but maybe I’ll sit this one out.

by Chris McLeod

For some reason I’m finding myself idly thinking about setting up a forum/bulletin board for a niche community. In 2024. I survived the Mod Life once, I’m not sure I can go back.

by Chris McLeod

The War Within is probably the best told and most cohesive opening story for a new WoW expansion I can remember. But to have the main campaign deliberately not take you all the way to max level feels odd. I’ve finished it, yet still have over 3 levels I need to grind out.

by Chris McLeod

It turns out I’m ~10 beta versions behind on IndieKit releases. There’s even an Eleventy preset now 🙌🏻 I was planning to update my configuration soon anyway, but now it looks like I’ll be doing an upgrade too.

by Chris McLeod

I’ve been getting a lot of “so-and-so has created their first post on Threads” notifications on Instagram lately, presumably as some X holdouts finally move on to other apps. With Threads not having full federation yet, it’s been enough to get me wondering if I should re-open an account there.

I can’t wait for all these sites and apps to be able to talk to each other fully, so I don’t have to think about creating new accounts any more.

by Chris McLeod

It’s been about 3 months since I last fully painted something. I really need to get back to the painting desk and start making progress again. There was a period in there where I was managing to build models, even if I wasn’t painting them, but that’s also dried up in the last few weeks. Hopefully I can get back to my hobby desk soon™.

by Chris McLeod

On the subject of phones: I’ve been finding myself thinking about a switch to Android over the last week or so. The handsets from Nothing and Fairphone have caught my attention lately.

I doubt it’s going to happen; I’d be the only person in my extended family to use Android, and I’m very deep into the ecosystem after 10+ years on iPhone. Those are big enough friction points alone. But the thought was there, which surprised me. Maybe it’s the idea of something “new”… iPhone/iOS has been feeling a bit stale after so long with very little really changing over that time.