So I’ve been slowly picking through the HL2 anniversary update commentary and, uh, this happened:

It’s my birthday again! That means it’s time for my now-yearly tradition of writing a big celebratory blog post about what I’ve been up to over the year! Also, I’m 32 this year - which is, at this point in my life, a lovely and comforting round number. Being a power of two, I’ve become incredibly familiar with it with my years of game development and general computery nonsense. It’s like seeing an old friend! And with that, read on for the year in review!

The reactions feature I wrote for my site a few days back was broken on mobile (and as it turns out, desktop too) due to a bug I accidentally introduced! Whoops! Should be fixed now, though, hehe!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I finally bought myself a full-featured film camera; an Olympus OM-10! And I’ve absolutely been loving using it; the weight and heft of a camera of this age feels incredible, and everything about the mechanisms feels great. The lens I got with it is the much-loved Zuiko 50mm f1.8, and it has been an absolute pleasure to use. Here are some of my favourite shots from this camera, freshly back from the lab! Shot on Kodak UltraMax 400 and Kodak Portra 160, check ‘em out!

I’ve added post reactions to my blog posts! If you read the full version of a post on my site, you’ll see these cheerful little beans at the bottom. You can choose one to react to a post with, and your reaction will be added to the count. You can try it out below!