Matt Styles

Had a good session on Civ 7 yesterday. Got to the Exploration age. The UI is a bit janky but once I got over that I was quickly sucked in and couldn’t stop playing. As a person who has played every game at launch I think it’s great!

Busted out a few turns on my MacBook but I really have to do some work first today. I can already feel the compulsion for one more turn though 😭

Civ 7 up and running. I’m not hearing great things but I’m going to give it a go. Love this series, I can’t believe they screwed it up. Will report back.

Epic Programming Principles Learn full-stack web development with Kent C. Dodds and the Epic Web instructors. Learn TypeScript, React, Node.js, and more through hands-on workshops.

So turns out not all of the Epic Programming Principles I wrote made it into the final site I published a couple months ago 😅

So if you've already read the principles, you missed some! Check it out again! epicweb.dev/principles (the cheat sheet has been updated as well)

First gold stake win on Balatro, Yay! Aided by 2 legendary jokers and lots of levels in Saturn. Feeling smug.

I’m a sucker for a bad comic book movie. But I just watched Kraven the Hunter and it really is as bad as they said it was. Just plain bad.

So the whole Barclays IT failure is kind of worrying. Woke up this morning and transfers between accounts as well as payments still haven’t gone through. Yikes!

Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5) The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of t…

Finished reading Wind And Truth last night. That was one hell of an ending, couldn’t put it down. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Hello 2025. I know I was going to start the new year on my best behavior but let’s delay that until tomorrow. Or until all the Christmas chocolate and cheese is gone. Whichever comes first.