Have finished a working version of my game for my niece. It’s only the free typing mode for now, which is essentially a basic text editor, with some colour options mapped to keys F1 through to F8. I’ve deployed a browser-based version of it if you’re curious.

Added my 👍 to the other 192 on this Go proposal to add generics to methods. Great idea! I’ve been wishing for this for a while.

HV #old Submission: https://lmika.org/2026/01/23/hv-old-submission.html#old My submission for Hemispheric View’s request for fun and interesting computer peripherals.

One part of me wonders whether this would’ve been caught earlier if I spent some more time analising the possible approaches for this refactor. Honestly, I don’t think I would. It’s not like I rushed into the schma changes without any thoug... https://lmika.org/2026/01/22/one-part-of-me-wonders.html

Argh! Was almost at the end of a major refactor when I ran into an issue, involving a database index, which completely invalidated my approach. Just blew up a days worth of work. I could potentially remove the database index — I don’t think it’s being used — but it could come in handy later.

Went to boardgames tonight. I’ll be honest: I didn’t feel like it. But I’m glad I did. Ending the night feeling quite better.

🔗 TawakiCam Live Live penguin camera stream set-up on Antipodes Island (for now). For anyone who likes penguins, which I think is everyone. Via: @georgepenney.bsky.social on Bluesky

Also, because this is so wonderful. Crested penguins/tawaki. Live! I love this sooo much. tawaki.cam

Finding myself drawing a circle with my finger on my laptop’s trackpad whenever I want to lock it. The reason is that I need to bring up the Touch Bar to press the lock key. Maybe one day I’ll learn the shortcut.

The view under Kings Way.

Devlog: Game For Niece — More Art and Cropping Ebitengine Images: https://lmika.org/2026/01/20/devlog-game-for-niece-more.html

Good writing and interesting blogs will always beat out doom-scrolling. Maybe my solution to less social media is not so much resisting those apps as it is making sure there’s enough of a substitute to tide me over.

Enjoyed a late dinner at the Prince Alfred Hotel in Richmond.

Miss-timed my arrival at work today. I’m leaving late so I wanted to get in late, yet I didn’t leave late enough and I ended up arriving 30 minutes after I normally would. Habits die hard I guess.

Rewatched Casino this evening. 🍿

Well, would you look at that. Turns out I can draw… somewhat.

On Apple's Icons for Their Creator Studio: https://lmika.org/2026/01/17/on-apples-icons-for-their.html Apple’s new app icons fail to clearly convey their functions, leaving users confused about their purposes.

Okay, my curiosity got the better of me. Signed up to Digg.

Went through my drafts just now. Cleaned them all out: there was nothing worth keeping. There were one or two that I wish I posted at the time, but alas: the moment has past, and it would loose it’s edge if I reworked it and posted it now.

🔗 Greg Morris: Envy: The Only Sin That Never Feels Good "Someone’s life looks better than yours on Instagram and suddenly you’re either tearing yourself down or posting something designed to make them feel worse about theirs. You see so... https://lmika.org/2026/01/16/greg-morris-envy-the-only.html

That’s the second time this week that I forgot that the i in a for (let i in array) loop in JavaScript is set to a string, not a number. It’s for enumerable string properties, not for proving a fancy way to iterate using the index.

I’m going to defend the use of “util” packages. No standard library is perfect, and no-one knows which utilities are useful and worth sharing until they’re used. A local “util” package is a perfect testing ground for such things. The alternative is just more copy-pasting.

This is something set up for the Australian Open, yet the sight of a tennis court on water does have some significant references to a few people I grew up with.

Good morning, everyone. This is a reminder that the orange seats are priority for passengers with special requirements. Oh, so the orange coloured seat fabric indicates that it’s a priority seat?! I had no idea. I just thought it was because the seats are different. TIL.💡

Just spent 5 minutes waiting for an OTP email. An email which will never come because I forgot to enter my email address and password. 🤦

It just just occured to me that those logic puzzles where you need to work out an order from a series of predicates (John came in before Jane, Anthony was first, etc.) is exactly the same exercise for working out the deployment order for a prod release. Here, John is the backend.

2026 could be the year of the TUI: rocking computers like it’s the 1980s.

It’s so satisfying seeing the run of a large Go test suite reveal itself as a tree when executed in an editor. IDEs should lean into this, allowing execution of subtests to any depth (not just the top + 1 level), and offering features like find.

Just discovered that when you open up the page picker in Obsidian after typing [[ , you can bring up the header picker after selecting the page and typing # instead of pressing Tab or Enter. Saves moving the cursor back to the left of ]] to set the header link.

Some More Thoughts on Apple's Ability to Make Vision Pro Content: https://lmika.org/2026/01/13/some-more-thoughts-on-apples.html Apple may struggle to produce the innovative Vision Pro content desired due to its reliance on established production practices and the pressure to justify substantial...

Oof! Just heard Ben Thompson’s article about the Vision Pro. Seems to me that Apple’s budget and culture of producing these pitch-perfect videos is at odds with what actually works on the Vision Pro. What would be interesting is seein... https://lmika.org/2026/01/13/oof-just-heard-ben-thompsons.html

Trying out this new coffee establishment that’s opened about a week ago: Coupette. Quite a small establishment, located beside a new hotel that’s opened along my commute.

I’ve forgotten how hot the Intel Mac Minis ran. I turned off the one I’m using as a home server yesterday to reduce the number of heat sources in the house (it was a really hot day). I turned it back on about 30 minutes ago and already it’s hot to the touch, despite the fan constantly running.

I Heart M Down: https://lmika.org/2026/01/10/i-heart-m-down.html I ❤️ M ⬇️

Too Much HTML: https://lmika.org/2026/01/09/too-much-html.html Components, reusability, and cues from existing code in an unfamiliar project.

I’ve grown into that person that wishes “happy new year” to everyone I meet. I guess that’s what you’d call learning from social cues.

I think I’ve selected a word for 2026: less. Less time in front of a screen, less consumption of unhealthy foods, less anxiety about things I can’t control. We’ll see how it goes this year.

I pity frontend developers. I’d come away hating code and computers too if I was tasked with trying to get anything done using their awful toolchains.

Johnny Five will return in Avengers: Doomsday (With apologies to @[email protected])

Apparently Metro trains impose speed restrictions on very hot days, like today. Good. When it comes to public transport in hot weather, better late than never is a good principal to operate on.

A potentially useful feature for IDEs would be to open up the same file in a two-pane split, then “freeze” one of the panes such that it won’t change while you’re making edits in the other one. That way, you can see file as it was when you made the split while you’re working on it.

One of these days we’ll have a World Wide Web where all the HTTP servers will return the correct MIME types of their content. Maybe (Definitely) not today, maybe not tomorrow, but some day. Hopefully some day before we get flying cars or fusion power. 😛

Bit strange seeing Goland suggest the IdeaVim plugin. I’ve never used Vim mode in Goland.

I have grand plans of rewriting Alto, replacing the HTTP framework and redoing the entire web UI. I feel that’s never going to happen. Realistically, it probably never shoud happen. I guess if there’s one saving grace, it’s that even though Buffalo’s no longer maintained, it still works quite well.

About The Journey: https://lmika.org/2026/01/05/about-the-journey.html A preference for the engineering process over the finished product leads to limited use of coding agents for project development.

Default Apps Early 2026 It's a time of slow change for me when it comes to the apps I use most regularly. 🔐 1Password for passwords, but ideally I'd like to switch to Apple's Passwords/Keychain for most things. Partly because of iOS. When I save a new password on iOS, it's always the native…

Dusted off Alto to give access to someone I know. Need to finish off the multi-tenant functionality, along with removing the hardcoded tokens from the mobile app. Manage to get going on doing so after maybe 5 or so minutes of waiting for dependencies/builds/whatever, which is a nice change.

From now on, I’ll only try to write good blog posts. The only trouble is that the measure of how “good” a blog post is changes with time, and not always in the same direction.

When all you have is wood, the one thing you are in want for is someone who has access to a fireplace. (In other words, I finally organised removal out the wood that has been in my yard since, well, this post)

Flies are annoying, and it’s hard to resist brushing them off when you see one on your clothes. But a static fly on clothing is one less fly buzzing around your face, so if it’s not on skin or irritating you, it’s always best to leave them where they are.