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title: "Week 9 - Game Dev and a Lot of Homelabbing"
date: 2026-02-22
tags:
  - weeknote
  - weekly update
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---

- 🎣 I am still fully consumed with building my cosy fishing game, Tiddler.
- 🗺️ This week I spent most of my free time fleshing out the small maps for the game to make them more interesting.
- 📦 I also researched a fair bit about the wild fish I didn't know much about. I'm not going for realism but enough to make it believable...
- 📕 The Fishing Log/Encyclopedia has had a full overhaul, it now gives counts of fish that you have collected per zone and pretty bars.
- 😆 I signed up over on [omg.lol](https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/ritual) and have been poking around seeing what I can do with it. status.lol is going to get incorporated somewhere on my site and I'll probably write a tiny app for posting updates from my phone quickly.
- 🛜 My ISP has messed up my static IP and put me being CGNAT so I had to do some firefighting for some of my locally hosted projects. Hopefully they can sort it out next week.
- 🪾 I decided to ditch GitHub because... Well... Microslop. I now host my own [Forgejo server](https://git.bkr.im/) and it backs up automatically every day to a Hetzner Storage Box. Nice.
- 💭 I've got an idea brewing for a project that checks websites for IndieWeb friendly markup and content. It's very early stages of brewing.
- 😣 Must stay focused on finishing one project before starting another...!

{{< img src="fishinglog.png" alt="Fishing Encyclopedia that fills out as you catch fish." >}}

{{< img src="harbour.png" alt="Larger bodies of water like in Windward Harbour are really improved with my shader." >}}

## Links I Found Interesting

- [Modern CSS](https://modern-css.com/) - Some interesting CSS bits and bobs.

- [Dithering - Part 1](https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1/) - Very cool explanation and animation.

- [Obra Dinn's "pixel art" is actually genius](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_3qzyAHMoUU) - A video about some really interesting dithering techniques used in Return of the Obra Dinn.

## Music

**Total Tracks:** 177

**Top 5 Artists:**

- [KMFDM](https://www.last.fm/music/KMFDM) - 19 plays
- [Carpenter Brut](https://www.last.fm/music/Carpenter+Brut) - 7 plays
- [Das Mörtal](https://www.last.fm/music/Das+M%C3%B6rtal) - 6 plays
- [Lazerhawk](https://www.last.fm/music/Lazerhawk) - 6 plays
- [Kavinsky](https://www.last.fm/music/Kavinsky) - 5 plays

## Next Week

I am going to push on with Tiddler, there's still _so_ much to do... but every session feels like loads of progress still.