Lately

Posted on April 11, 2026

It was a long month, and here's a late, brief, "lately".

Creating

Coding in my free time hasn't been interesting, and has been a bit dread inducing. As a result, coding focused projects have been on hold for a bit. This influced my gaols for a visuals project in Godot for my Ides of December Adventure, not that that went great.

I wont be rushing into any massive projects, but I feel at the very least I'm on the upswing from this. This isn't all doom and gloom. There's also some bloom!

The good news is that I got a camera.

Traveling a bunch last year and looking at more travel later this year, I wanted a nicer camera than my several year old phone to bring with me on these trips. Over thinking further on it: a camera is the perfect alternative tool to the phone or computer for endless tinkering, since those haven't been sparking joy.

After about six months of considering and two months of obsessive review watching I landed on a decent deal for a refurbished Fujifilm X-E5. It had 218 photos previously taken on it, and was otherwise in like new condition.

• It is a nicer camera than I properly know how to use.
• It will become a nice camera know precisely how to use.

My phone is old with a battery that is old and has dust in it's the lens, and software that's out of date. It's a glass and PCB sandwich, this was bound to happen. My next phone¹ will eventually reach that point too, and the cycle will repeat. These can be repaired, I've fixed mine a few times in it's long life, but functioning hardware doesn't fix the unsupported software.

This new camera is designed around replaceable batteries, storage, lenses, etc. It runs software and can receive updated firmware, but it doesn't rely on connecting to the world to work. It's using a battery designed over 10 years ago, with reliable third party replacements galore. It's a tool built to last basically forever, and I'll be getting better with it every day.

Consuming

It was incredibly exciting to watch Artemis II launch last Wednesday. People! In Space! Going around the Moon! Amazing!

Their trip across the dark side of the moon brought with it amazing images and broke Apollo 13's record for furthest people from earth!

With everything else going on, I could use a vacation like that...

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