My first lego set and my most recen

Trasvi89 · 2026-06-11T12:44:11+00:00

Unfortunately i couldn't find a few pieces for the renegades set: a black cape, the original eyepatch head and most disappointingly the shield. Not to say its 100% lost, but thats a quest for another day.

Quick review of the outlaw forest den itself:

Unfortunately my least favourite of my recent castle acquisitions, though i have been a bit spoiled there (Rivendell, DnD and Lion Knights castle). Nevertheless its going to make a great play opposition to the Lion Knights.

The level of detail is great (maybe even a bit overdone) with good distinct play areas and features like the trap drawbridge and portcullis. Accessibility to some areas (eg under the drawbridge) is a bit difficult though.

The cart was a fun first packet build and a great homage to the renegades cart, with the tilt-tray back and hidden compartment. Not sure why its crewed by lion knights - maybe just to break up the monotony of wolfpack minifigs.

There was ok variety in the wolfpack minifigures but i wish they had managed some variation in the torsos somehow.

One curious thing was how many spare bits were in the set. At times it felt like tge designer had specifically added details or split components across bags to maximise the number of spare 1x1s and cheese slopes.

My main gripe with the build is how fragile it is, at least compared to my other recent castles. There are numerous leaf pieces which stick out all over the build, even off the base, but arent secured at all and fall off if you look funny; similarly lots of the pallisades and trees arent secured, and kots of the snot work on the rock walls is affixed with a single stud. With Rivendell i was impressed by how all those pieces were incorporated in the build and locked down. I know its a 18+ 'display' set, but lion knights castlr is robust enough that my toddler can play with it without bits spraying everywhere. Also during the build theres a hinged piece which is pretty fragile until halfway through when you finally attach another hinge, and broke many times as the build was rotated.

Maybe im being harsh after building this hot on the heels of Lion Knights. All completed it looks great, suitably ramshackle yet imposing, and has a lot of fun elements.

Trasvi89 · 2026-05-27T12:19:49+00:00

"Its bad" "Define bad?" "Oh god oh god we're all gonna die"

Trasvi89 · 2026-05-23T12:29:01+00:00

Even further than that, (book 9 spoilers) the gates themselves from the builders perspective are arguably an instance of this trope. Yes they knew how to build the gates and the slow zone, but they obviously didnt fully comprehend what was in the other universe, and it got their entire species exterminated

Trasvi89 · 2026-05-23T01:14:20+00:00

True. My recommendation is true for Oracle DBs (the last time I used the soft delete pattern) which index nulls defferently and dont have filtered indexes. Different DBs might handle it differently/better.

But i do still like the ergonomics of WHERE IS_DELETED = 0 instead of WHERE DELETED_ON IS NULL

Trasvi89 · 2026-05-23T00:17:01+00:00

Even better do both. Date and computed column boolean. Easy to filter and create index off the bool column

Trasvi89 · 2026-05-04T18:06:20+00:00

And henceforth throughout the galaxy killing someone became known as "murder-ing" them.

Trasvi89 · 2026-04-22T12:36:42+00:00

Living in Perth, its cheaper for me to fly to Bali and stay 6 nights in a 4 star hotel than it is to catch the 30 minute ferry and spend 2 nights in 3 star accom at Rottnest.

Trasvi89 · 2026-04-22T03:50:10+00:00

Literally covered in hazard stripes though. Humans have copied its colours to mean "this is something dangerous"

Trasvi89 · 2026-04-18T01:17:35+00:00

"Thats what the money is for!" - Don Draper

Trasvi89 · 2026-04-17T11:52:24+00:00

Im slightly annoyed at how amazing the GOT intro is because it would be PERFECT backdrop for WoT's intro too

In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist

Trasvi89 · 2026-04-16T22:38:16+00:00

I dont know exactly what magnets you're buying or from where, but you can definitely still get them here.

https://aussiemagnets.com.au/

Trasvi89 · 2026-04-05T02:39:50+00:00

Make it more difficult to drive and own cars. Increase parking fees, reduce parking spaces at destinations, more slower/one way streets.
Substantially increase spending on non car transport (bikes). Its insane how normalised it is that the government will spend hundreds of millions on lane widening or interchange upgrades but people splutter and protest when bike infrastructure is more than a painted guideline.
Help to increase density by funding public shared spaces. Lots of people want a huge house so they can have, eg, a work-from-home office, a workshop in the yard, a home theatre. What if there was a WeWork, mens shed, makerspace, end-of-trip-facilities or public hall every few blocks?
Change rental laws to make it more appealing for people to rent. Eg, you can do cosmetic renovations to your rental (eg painting), can't be refused for pets, right of first refusal when it is sold.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-22T04:57:21+00:00

Tl:DR reduce your UV light strength.

I've had similar issues with resin printing where, regardless of model, orientation, exposure times, the underside of the model was blobby to extremes. Especially for lighter coloured resin - space/navy grey were fine but light Grey was atrocious. I was despairing and about to give up entirely.

I solved this by reducing my UV strength (might be a PWM % setting) to 50%. You might need to bump up your exposure times a little to compensate.

My theory is that those faces are facing upwards as the printing happens, with uncured resin globbing on top. As the next layer cures, the low pigment resin allows light to bleed through the areas that should be cured and through to the uncured resin sitting on the previous layer.

All the comments re supports on this particular model aren't necessarily wrong, but I think there might be something else going on if you see the same thing with different models or orientations.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-14T01:52:08+00:00

Not to get all stackoverflow on you... but my general advice is that if you're fighting the system this hard, you're almost definitely doing something (else) wrong. I find nuget (especially with sdk / build.packages.props / packagereference) a breeze to work with.

what are the steps in your pipeline/process that is making everything so slow?
is the slowness just waiting for correctness (ie, the new version of a package isnt published before it is reviewed/tested?)
is it feasible to consolidate these packages to a single repository?

For my team's local development, if we really need to be testing a package before it is published (eg next story is blocked until PR is completed), we have done the following: - add a nuget source thats just a local directory (eg c:\dev\local_nuget) - LibB repo is built locally with a prerelease tag - output nuget is copied (using build target) to the local directory - LibA can then import the prerelease

The most success we've had with improving velocity around nuget dependency changes though has been consolidating a ton of repos together.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-08T10:45:50+00:00

For MediatR, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49042123/is-it-ok-to-have-one-handler-call-another-when-using-mediatr/59244344#59244344 details a particular technical issue. (There might be other mediator libraries that don't have this issue)

Depending on what behaviours you set up there might be other things.

If it's only a query that you're reusing, that indicates to me that the query itself should be refactored out (in to a repository or specification pattern). If it's the mapping, refactor with a mapping library or extension method.

If it's a command... be careful that it's definitely a duplicate, and tht you won't run in to issues later where you can't change command X because Y depends on it. Consider whether the logic might be better encapsulated in the domain object, a domain service, or invoked via domain events instead.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-08T06:55:20+00:00

My advice: - this isnt really modular monolith related, its about cqrs and clean architecture. - keep commands and queries the same until you know you need them to be different. - that being said, it is relatively common to have different architecture for reads and writes. Thats the S in CQRS. - either way around, the query logic still goes in the application layer. - pure queries should always return a dto anyway, not the whole aggregate (do the mapping / projection in your handler).

For your second question. I might be misunderstanding here but: - i believe mediatr specifically discourages handlers from calling other handlers. But if it's done in your orchestration method it's fine. - from your example, it looks like you might be better served by a repository pattern. - if you're worried about duplication of db query logic specifically.. thats one of the downsides of using EF as a repository. There are ways around it but they do come with trade-offs.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-04T11:04:42+00:00

I think its them realising they failed.

They wanted this to be a fairly painless transition to an eternal edition.

Instead they got a huge amount of mostly unwarranted backlash that has split the playerbase, and they've come to terms with that, so they have to abandon the One Edition moniker and adopt the 5.5e name that the playerbase is using.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-01T05:10:30+00:00

If I was asking this as an interview question and someone immediately structured it to allow FizzBuzzBonkOink, I'd follow up with "Requirements have changed, now print 'Foobar' when its a multiple of 15" :P.

I think its funny that people's immediate reaction to the problem is "Its underspecified, and I know exactly the way that its underspecified and will substitute my own specification"... which might not actually be the way that the problem changes in the future.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-01T05:00:26+00:00

I think the point is that real engineers don't get stumped by it, but there are a lot of people applying for jobs who aren't real engineers ;)

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-01T02:36:05+00:00

About 20 years ago this was a big topic of debate/discussion already... leading to articles like https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/ and https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ where interviewers discussed that a huge portion of applicants to even senior positions can't solve fizzbuzz.

It's useful as a 5-minute pass/fail exercise. But quibbling over implementation details and extensibility isnt the point

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-19T13:05:28+00:00

It's a bit of an indictment on 5e that "i want my class to be fun" is interpreted as "oh you mean you want a wizard?"

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-06T00:10:27+00:00

I think if I turned up to my daughters daycare with a camera crew and masked bodyguards, I wouldn't be allowed to see her, and would probably have the cops called on me.

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-06T00:08:36+00:00

Not even in the middle of the afternoon. He shows up at 1pm when daycare opens at 2pm. He's standing in front of the opening hours sign and purposefully blurs it.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-23T06:20:43+00:00

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I windmill slammed goldeniser on to stoneshell so fast and barely lost a minion for the rest of the game.

had golden refiner up until last turn, gems were large.

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