Secret life hack: despite everyone trying to tell you otherwise, a lot of the time you can just... not; and life continues largely unaffected.

Ugh today is one of those days for getting stuck in the UI quagmire it seems 😭

Merry likes to watch the frisbee when I’m playing Animal Well.

I really don’t buy the idea that agentic coding is going to mean more indie software, at least not competitive stuff. I see a lot of people finding it’s helping them bootstrap something quickly, but although that might *feel* good I don’t think it leads to more software that sticks around. IME the reason software fails is not the easy 80% that LLMs speed-run for you, it’s the tricky 20%. Most people tend to lose interest when they hit that part, and I don’t think any LLM makes that go away.

I finally took a punt on Animal Well last night and I’m glad I did. The reason I hadn’t until now is entirely Hollow Knight’s fault, because that’s another Metroidvania that everyone adores but I didn’t enjoy at all. Luckily, Animal Well is really nothing like HK - it has colour for a start 😜 But importantly it’s all about puzzles instead of (to me) annoying combat challenges, and it’s delightful at that.

A couple of weeks with my monitor-distance glasses and yeah it does definitely help smooth out the days when my eyes are tired. I sometimes forget to put them on for an hour if I’m having a good day but even so I notice my eyes relaxing when I put them on. The only downside is that when I take them off again, my vanilla eyesight is suddenly *terrible* at that range. They’re not strong glasses but it’s just enough that my eyes are clearly like”WTF, we have to work now?” 🤓