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Taking the leap
Today I took the leap and activated a new theme for the blog. I will be working on this for the forseeable future, adding back features, fixing bugs and making things prettier.
The new theme is a block theme and will be a modern foundation for future experimentation. It is very broken in many places, as I have only a rough idea of the home page for now. I will fix the single post/page templates in the coming days.
Heavy features like the tweet archive will have to wait for a while. But I’m excited to start this new project. The last theme dates back to 2014, so this has been overdue.
Thank you for your patience, and good luck to us all.
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Nu (Sans) font
In today’s underconsideration newsletter I briefly paused at the new Blackletra typeface for Nubank, which they had worked on since 2024.
I dig the sort of trendy style, but mainly I wanted to post this so I don’t get out of the habit of blogging regularly, ha!
https://blackletra.com/custom/nubank
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28 Years Later : The Boner Temple
Since I had already invested in the first part of this, apparently, trilogy, I gave this a watch as well. I found it not half bad, definitely had its moments!
Kind of hard to say sonething about it and stay spoiler-free, but I guess I can say I thought it was surprising the zombies played only a marginal role in this. Felt … kind of refreshing (?)
Oh and they turned the amount of zombie dick up to 11. I guess it’s always been a staple of the series, but this takes the crown for now.
Rated it 4 stars on Letterboxd, which funnily enough is the same rating I gave the original. Should really reevaluate that, though.
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Coding Trance Music
A while ago I stumbled upon this person “Switch Angel” on Youtube, who makes trance music by coding it inside an editor, strudel.cc
Since I watched the first Short of her a few months back, she pops up in my recommendations from time to time and I almost always click; she is that good.
I can’t wrap my head around how it works, but to me it is utterly mesmerizing watching her work. Makes me feel like it’s 1999 again.
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MtG: Vintage Esper Faeries
About a year ago, Max randomly dropped the bomb that he had started playing Magic the Gathering. Immediately I panicked, scrambling to throw together a working deck that would make up for the head start he had gotten. I had never played or even looked into it, but I guess I was MtG-curious.
FF to one year later: we have semi-annual meetups now to play a few rounds. I guess I have a decent beginner’s understanding of the game and have a few hundred cards and about 10 playable 60-card decks.
Since I’m kind of proud of what I have cobbled together using Moxfield, Cardmarket, Liberproxies and ChatGPT, I’d like to highlight a few decks I have played and note my learnings here.
Last night I got to try out my new deck: Esper Faeries! It was supposed to be a counter to Max’ Goblin deck, but it did perform decently in a variety of matchups (against other noobs).
This is the list. And below are my observations and the performance of individual cards.
Mainboard
Amount CI Mana Card White 2 W 1W Stoneforge Mystic Blue 1 U U Brainstorm 2 U 1U Daze 2 U 3UU Force of Will 1 U 3U Mistbind Clique 4 U U Ponder 1 U U Preordain 1 U 2U Scion of Oona 4 U 1U Spellstutter Sprite 1 U 1UU Vendilion Clique Black 1 B BB Bitterbloom Bearer 3 B 1B Bitterblossom 1 B 2B Engineered Plague 3 B B Fatal Push Multicolor 1 UB 2UB Alela, Cunning Conqueror 1 WUB WUB Esper Charm 2 WB 1WB Kaya's Guile 1 WU 1WU Spell Queller 1 UB 2UB Talion, the Kindly Lord 1 UB 1UB Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor Colorless 1 C 5 Batterskull 2 C Brazen Borrower 1 C 3 Sword of Fire and Ice 2 C 2 Umezawa's Jitte Lands
Amount CI Mana Card 2 UB Darkslick Shores 2 C Flooded Strand 1 WB Godless Shrine 1 WU Hallowed Fountain 1 U Island 3 C Polluted Delta 1 WUB Raffine's Tower 1 WB Scrubland 3 UB Secluded Glen 1 B Swamp 1 WU Tundra 1 UB Underground Sea 2 UB Watery Grave Sideboard
Amount CI Mana Card Blue 1 U U Spell Pierce Black 1 B 2BB Crippling Fear 1 B 2B Crypt Incursion 2 B 2B Engineered Plague 1 B 1BB Golden Demise 1 B B/P Surgical Extraction 1 B XBB The Meathook Massacre 1 B 2B Toxic Deluge 1 B 1BB Witch's Vengeance Multicolor 1 WU WU Dovin's Veto 1 UB UB Drown in the Loch 1 WUB WUB Esper Charm 1 WB 1WB Kaya's Guile 1 WB WB Zealous Persecution I really liked the playstyle with all the Flash interaction: Faeries coming in, cancelling out spells, surprise blocking or just tokens tanking huge damage. The playstyle is awesome because you have a lot of card draw/selection and you can play proactively or reactively, depending on the matchup. It lacks a bit of big creature removal, but I guess at that point you’re supposed to either have won or be dead.
Overperformed: Daze, Ponder, Spellstutter Sprite, Kaya’s Guile, Umezawa’s Jitte, my 3-color manabase
Underperformed: My multicolor cards like Esper Charm and the Faeries. Either they clogged my hand or did nothing.
Meh: Bitterbloom Bearer, Bitterblossom
I’ll keep refining this a bit and change a few cards around, but overall I am totally happy with this. (Don’t forget I don’t know what I’m talking about here).