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  "title": "Miscellanea for 2025-06-11",
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  "year": "2025",
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  "date": "2025-06-12T06:59:00.000Z",
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  "html": "<ul>\n<li>Hello world!</li>\n<li>Why is <a href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/smartless-mobile-jason-bateman-will-arnett-mobile-business-1236261243/\">a celebrity podcast starting a mobile phone provider</a>?</li>\n<li>Finally watching <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=vbwSXVRwKUo\">Front 242's final live show</a> and... dang.</li>\n<li>Blogging has slowed here, but I'm hoping to pick it back up.<ul>\n<li>It was probably a shiny-new-toy phase for the first few weeks.</li>\n<li>But also, I just changed projects at work and got suddenly a lot busier. So, my time for idle rumination has vanished for now.</li>\n<li>I did post <a href=\"https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/07/semi-automatic-coding/\">a relatively big thing on AI coding</a> last weekend, so that's pretty good though?</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>My brain suddenly demands I play <a href=\"https://www.terraria.org/\">Terraria</a>.<ul>\n<li>This happens every few years. And when it does, I get a sudden hyperfocus rabbit hole thing that lasts a week or so and evaporates abruptly.</li>\n<li>I've only ever made it past the first few bosses in the game despite playing it since release back in 2011. 💀</li>\n<li>I think that's my general M.O. with games: I get to a point where I'm like \"ooh novelty\" and then \"ah, okay, I get how it goes from here\" and wander off.</li>\n<li>I very rarely want grinding or more of the same thing, once I see the pattern. Until, I guess, the anti-novelty wears off and it feels novel again? (Thus the repeat visits to Terraria)</li>\n<li>Sometimes I'm really jealous of folks who can just lock into a Special Interest like Terraria and just milk endless reliable dopamine from the thing.</li>\n<li>Meanwhile I'm like BORED NOW and have to go hunting again.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n",
  "body": "\n- Hello world!\n- Why is [a celebrity podcast starting a mobile phone provider](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/smartless-mobile-jason-bateman-will-arnett-mobile-business-1236261243/)?\n- Finally watching [Front 242's final live show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vbwSXVRwKUo) and... dang.\n- Blogging has slowed here, but I'm hoping to pick it back up.\n\t- It was probably a shiny-new-toy phase for the first few weeks.\n\t- But also, I just changed projects at work and got suddenly a lot busier. So, my time for idle rumination has vanished for now.\n\t- I did post [a relatively big thing on AI coding](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/07/semi-automatic-coding/) last weekend, so that's pretty good though?\n- My brain suddenly demands I play [Terraria](https://www.terraria.org/).\n\t- This happens every few years. And when it does, I get a sudden hyperfocus rabbit hole thing that lasts a week or so and evaporates abruptly.\n\t- I've only ever made it past the first few bosses in the game despite playing it since release back in 2011. 💀\n\t- I think that's my general M.O. with games: I get to a point where I'm like \"ooh novelty\" and then \"ah, okay, I get how it goes from here\" and wander off.\n\t- I very rarely want grinding or more of the same thing, once I see the pattern. Until, I guess, the anti-novelty wears off and it feels novel again? (Thus the repeat visits to Terraria)\n\t- Sometimes I'm really jealous of folks who can just lock into a Special Interest like Terraria and just milk endless reliable dopamine from the thing.\n\t- Meanwhile I'm like BORED NOW and have to go hunting again.",
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