This was an excellent Spyro retrospective. Me and my brother feel a lot of nostalgia for Spyro as it was also one of the first games we ever played.

A new Spyro would do really well IMO. Let's hope Toys For Bob are cooking something up.

I installed a new hose in my front garden last week. It's the same as what I have in the back garden; a Gardena 20m retractable.

To install it I mounted a slab of wood onto my weatherboard house and got ChatGPT to recommend some screws. I also learnt that the screws needed to go into where the studs were in the wall. The actual mount for the hose was then attached to the slab of wood. I used the same screws again as these were easier to drill than the ones that came with the hose.

I installed macOS Tahoe a couple of days ago. First impressions are that it's actually pretty good. The TextEdit logo is a massive regression though.

Credit where it's due; the new Kayo redesign is really nice. The backend video streaming for live events also works a lot better now which is good to see.

It also works flawlessly in Safari whereas a few years ago it seemed stable only in Chrome.

I liked this episode because it was a mix of Godfather 2 references. Cuba is the 50s was a wild place.

What if to practice getting better at using Helix I try using it for my blog.

The shortcuts are still kind of brutal to remember what it could be a bit of fun to give it a go.

I think it makes more sense to use these kind of editors now given the shift away from needing an IDE with AI.

I want something as stripped back as this and use it in conjunction with tools like lazygit.

Rick Shiels playing at a course around the corner from me. I'm in.

This should be a cracking podcast. Been missing Ollie's commentary around the footy and the clear St Kilda bias.

I've now fully migrated to Apple Passwords. The app is okay and given 1password are increasing their prices there's kind of no point staying on with them. The autocomplete for Apple Passwords is also excellent.

This whole media saga has been weird. Honestly its been probably good PR and exposure for Dan Does Footy.

This is so random but super cool. That little low fade that Rory hits off the tee is beautiful.

Wish I was wealthy enough to play here regularly. It looks beautiful.

This is going to be a really popular product.

The Neo name is a bit of a surprise.

Here's my 2026 AFL ladder prediction.

1. Gold Coast
2. Sydney
3. Hawthorn
4. Fremantle
5. Brisbane
6. St Kilda
7. Western Bulldogs
8. Adelaide
9. Carlton
10. Essendon
11. GWS
12. North Melbourne
13. Geelong
14. Port Adelaide
15. Melbourne
16. Richmond
17. Collingwood
18. West Coast

Grand Final: Gold Coast vs Sydney

Premier: Gold Coast

Legendary commentator. Some of these clips are so good.

If Emma had the opportunity to do this on me who knows what would come out. Something very weird most likely.

Really cool insight into game development here. Even those old builds look pretty awesome though in my opinion. Sprout Valley was definitely a much worse name.

Over the weekend I did something long overdue; cleaning up my dotfiles. I've done things a stupid way in the past where I'd store my dotfiles in iCloud Drive as a duplicate of what was in my home directory.

Using git is a much better solution to this problem.

In interacting with ChatGPT it came up with a scripting strategy whereby you have this alias in your .zshrc

alias dot='/opt/homebrew/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

which creates an empty git directory named .dotfiles in your home and you interact with your dotfiles using dot instead of git.

So whenever I update my .zshrc now the flow is

dot status
dot add -u
dot commit -m "Commit message"
dot push

and everything is stored remotely in GitHub ready for a new machine whenever I switch.

I'm currently also storing my Ghostty config file as well as my .gitconfig. But the main thing I need to store somewhere safe is the .zshrc as I have a number of aliases and functions now that should be tracked.

Me and Emma celebrated our first wedding anniversary at Ten Minutes by Tractor on Saturday night. It was a wonderful evening and the food and wine were world class. Would recommend it to anyone wanting to celebrate a special occasion.

Side note: the Main Ridge area has some beautiful driving roads. The trees and farms are stunning. It would be an absolute dream to have a house there but I think it's very expensive.

I also added starship to my zsh shell over the weekend which many other dev's use at my work.

It's nice; not life-changing but it provides good context at a glance whenever you're working in a repo.