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  I’ve now read all of Earthsea. Don’t think a fantasy series has affected me so deeply since I first read Tolkien or Pratchett. And now there is no more! I am bereft

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  Happy eclipse day to everyone except the guy who brought his DJ decks to the once in a lifetime celestial event

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  In today’s Japanese lesson I learned about たこさんウィンナー (Mr Octopus Wiener) and I have to share it with you

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  I need to do a little redesign on my blog so that posts don’t absolutely HAVE to have images, because it means I often don’t write because a big “proper” post feels like a huge undertaking and I could be writing things bigger than notes, smaller than posts

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  I’m a man of culture, you know

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  Games just look better on 4:3 and we have regressed as a society since we started pretending otherwise

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  Read a blog recently where the author said “LLMs use fewer tokens for input than output so they’re cheap if you don’t use them to generate code” which does kind of ignore that “reasoning” involves models generating text to talk to themselves ad nauseum

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  Such a joy to share a stage with this lot again. Boomerang forever

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  Tepid programmer take: git hooks always suck. They are never good. I am not a child

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  Fucked it lads

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  Geese at Troxy

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  Loved celebrating my pal Tice Cin’s book launch, go read Safe Spaces!

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  I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I'm not in a good headspace. I had a good conversation with a friend that helped, so I wrote about it, so I can read it when it happens again. https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/make-it-anyway/

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  Finally made a cake where I didn’t screw up the icing!

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  Rolled credits on Denshattack! - what a joyous spectacle that game is. Maybe a little tiny bit too long but I had a lovely time and I’m a little sad it’s over.

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  One problem with living in the big city is all the nosy passers by

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  The Olllam at Hackney Church, class gig. Been a fan since before I moved to London, finally got to see them play

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  Made a rose and cardamom and pistachio cake for Lucy’s birthday! First time ever making a proper round cake with layers, think it turned out alright

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  When I booted this up I got asked what colour clothes I was wearing on the 3rd of July in, I assume, 2007, and I GOT IT RIGHT STILL YOUNG BABYEE

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  I just wanted to play Medabots on Game Boy

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  No lie in for me today then

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  Not done a blog in a bit, kind of tempted to write a big ol “here’s why scene graphs are sick actually” but I feel like anyone who needs to know what a scene graph is already knows they’re sick

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  I wrote some thoughts about the best Star Wars game, Star Wars Outlaws. https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/04/star-wars-outlaws/ #games #starwars

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  Sage Francis and Atmosphere at Electric Brixton

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  Big fan of Cornwall

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  That was pretty special

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  Lisbon’s lovely, we’ll be back

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  Video Dave and Open Mike Eagle at Jazz Cafe

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  Walked the Seven Sisters today and it was lovely