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I never stop writing music. This week I'm trying to balance slow chill vibes with faster bits to keep things interesting.
My post history is full of microbe videos with my previous music if anyone is interested.
The tomatoes are growing nicely in their little pots. We bought a large planter and plan on planting some basil and thyme and shit.
I also played Blue Prince. I like it but I can see why it's polarizing. Being sometimes so rng, it's frustrating to know what to do to see more story only to be unable to do that for several in game days.
That said I'm still playing.
Still drawing this since I'm the slowest artist ever and I have no shame
I think the fins are really helping to make this little creature pop! What do you think?
I like the combo. I want someone to write about this like it is an ancient magic beast.
Thank you!! Funny you should say that because I have plans for a detailed background and part of the background is old books on a table with writings about this peculiar little friend! 😃
I played with my FreeBSD HA-Configuration. Found out, that I don’t have to replicate my PostgreSQL-Database in use with kea, since kea syncs lease-data by itself.
Then I’m looking into bhyve Virtualization and as a further hobby struggle with Programming the ESP32. I’m new to VSCode and PlatformIO and don’t really become friends with it. I’m surprised what there is all going on to compile just a simple „hello world“.
Yesterday I was in the gym after a five-week break because of sickness. It felt very good.
Finally got my unattended-upgrades
working properly and set up a Wireguard server so I can get my Pi-Hole's ad-blocking while I'm on the go.
I replaced the horn in my car. Haven’t had time to do much else this week.