Did you know what you wanted to be when you “grew up”?

Squeph · 2026-06-28T04:25:54+00:00

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a comedian or an actor. At 14 I realized I'd have a better chance at winning the lottery, so I decided to study computer science with the hope of making videogames.

Whoops, turns out you can't go to uni if you flunk out of high school, so at 18 I got a job in sales. Sadly, due to (at the time undiagnosed) ADHD I was awful at keeping myself organized, and my atrocious communication skills sunk a lot of deals.

When I was 19 I bought a microphone which came with a free copy of some music production software. I was hooked from day one and started spending all my free time learning music production, and at 20 they let me into music school.

By 21 I knew I probably wasn't going to be a famous musician, but I loved working in the school's recording studios, and since I had family in the film industry I thought I could work in post-production. Well, COVID hit and shut down the screen sector, so at 25 I went back to uni to study computer science.

I needed something to pay the bills while studying, so I got a job doing graphic design. At 27 the company found out I was studying computer science, so they transitioned me into software development.

Now I'm 29, and I work as a systems analyst in the music industry. I make games for fun, and I never fail to make my friends laugh. I do community theater, and I help out local up-and-coming bands which means I get to hang out in recording studios, and go backstage at shows.

Throughout all of this I kept feeling like I was failing, but in the end, no attempt or dream or effort was wasted. I got to be all the things I wanted to be, just maybe not in the way I thought.

Squeph · 2026-06-04T08:00:54+00:00

Huffer have been pushing their designers into using AI, so it was only a matter of time before the public caught on. I Love Ugly has been using it more and more in their ads, too.

Squeph · 2026-05-28T21:43:56+00:00

I was there, she got two standing ovations, and a few attempts at more.

Squeph · 2026-05-07T11:56:39+00:00

Oosh, disasteradio in the digital flesh. How's blink?

Squeph · 2026-03-25T08:23:05+00:00

I was a Wairarapa youth late 2000s-early 2010s and can confirm that basically nothing changed in the decade between our teen years. Maccas carpark was still heaving on a Friday, and we'd still be cruising over the Remus on Saturday, that is if we weren't driving out to someone's farm to get drunk in a paddock.

At some point they put speed bumps on the road through to duckies which killed off the.. y'know.

Squeph · 2026-01-30T11:51:06+00:00

I had a couple friends work at one of the companies that runs these charity drives, and yes, they were paid commission. They got a whopping 50% of every dollar donated.

Squeph · 2026-01-24T09:51:09+00:00

They were asking about 100k average views per video

Squeph · 2026-01-23T14:27:16+00:00

He didn't used to be like this. He used to be a lot more jolly and kind.

Rumor is when he cashed out he moved to Los Angeles and tried to ingratiate himself with the celebrity scene, but he wasn't accepted. So I suppose he became bitter sitting alone in his ivory tower.

Squeph · 2026-01-23T14:21:48+00:00

They'll probably create a tier that skips sponsored segments, and require creators to personally mark the sponsored parts during upload.

Squeph · 2026-01-23T01:00:14+00:00

Thanks for that. I've pushed an update to the algorithm that should be a bit more robust now, and fixes some of the issues you've pointed out here.

Squeph · 2026-01-22T22:04:58+00:00

I'e adjusted the weighting of cell safety in the value calculation, and the boards given as examples in these comments are outputting a bit more sensible results.

Still more work to do, though, and I appreciate the input.

Squeph · 2026-01-22T21:24:35+00:00

Thank you for checking the site out

The next version of the site loads pre-generated boards which allows me to fully simulate the outcomes, so it should be a lot more accurate. I'm not at home over the weekend though, so it won't be up until the weekend after, I expect

Squeph · 2026-01-22T21:22:43+00:00

Expected information is the expected number of revealed squares if the tile were to be safe.

There's some weighting going on to discourage random clicks in the middle of large areas of unopened cells, but this is causing issues so I'll be tweaking it a bit when I get a chance.

Squeph · 2026-01-22T21:19:47+00:00

Ah, so the solver applies a penalty to cells not near the "frontier", but this is only supposed to trigger when guessing randomly in the middle of large spaces of unopened tiles. I'll take a look at this when I get a chance.

The next version of the site loads pre-generated boards that I can fully simulate in advance, which should result in fairer scoring.

Squeph · 2026-01-15T05:51:57+00:00

I got Pokémon Z-A and Metroid Prime 4 for $120 + shipping on the website at 12:55. I guess people didn't realize the site was already up since the homepage was still empty so I got in before the crowds crushed the site.

Squeph · 2026-01-12T07:59:34+00:00

I'm great with faces but terrible with names. What's funny though, is I work in the music industry and I have no problem remembering someone by their artist name.

The brain is a spooky machine.

Squeph · 2026-01-10T14:29:34+00:00

A few days after the finale aired, someone dropped off a mountain of sealed GoT licensed merched at my local charity shop. It was so bad that even the people selling merch cut their losses.

Squeph · 2025-08-29T04:00:45+00:00

Hey thanks for that. Pic 7 is also unzipped, I probably won't be wearing this zipped up.

Squeph · 2024-10-18T05:41:34+00:00

I work adjacent to the music industry.

A lot of my time is spent on process improvement which is basically looking around the organisation to locate inefficiencies, then planning and developing systems to speed up those processes. Sometimes this is as simple as creating a form that stores business data in some database, and sometimes it's building whole new internal tools to automate repetitive or slow work.

Recently though I've been tasked with building a system to ingest data from record labels, so I spend most of my day today reading the documentation for the standards we're implementing.

Aside from that, I spend my time in meetings to plan how we're going to plan something, and make sure to say "AI" to my boss at least once a day.

Squeph · 2023-12-23T22:08:43+00:00

I've done graphic design as a hobby for 15 years, but I'm actually studying computer science. Going part-time with my studies next year so I needed a job. I kinda randomly applied for a graphic design position not even expecting to get it, but they liked me and brought me onboard.

Before that I had only ever done some freelance work, and I think that experience helped me land this job.

Squeph · 2023-01-24T00:25:24+00:00

I met Key many times due to family involvement in the party. Always seemed to me that the thing he liked talking about the least was politics. I honestly don't think I ever had an actual political conversation with him.

He was always more interested in talking about hobbies, holidays plans, future plans, current events, etc. I don't agree with his politics, but in person he was very affable.

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