This PVP dashboard isn’t quite yet committed to my D2Rstats project, but it’s close to being ‘ready enough’! As usual, I’m impressed and excited at what Quarto can do. It’s really fun to develop this way.

I had a really nice time running a Destiny 2 raid with pals on Saturady. It’s fun to hang out with nice people for a few hours while wielding space magic. I started running Sunshot again recently, and it put in some work.

Whispers: and the exotic dropped for me, too!

(Game info from my own tool, D2Rstats.)

I really enjoy John Moreland’s lyricism and performance style. This spare, live album is heartfelt and shows off both nicely. Great for a quiet early holiday afternoon.

Listening to streaming music and posting to my blog while on descent to SLC is something else, man.

My NUC running Suse must have heard me talking about replacing it with a Mac Mini, because it’s been stubbornly stable for about 36 hours, after crashing perhaps a dozen times on Tuesday. I’m giving it the strong side eye.

I spent an unseemly portion of today getting Suse to work on my finicky NUC to run my Roon server. If it’s still unstable then I think it must be a hardware issue, and I’ll just replace the whole thing with a Mac Mini.

Low clouds over the reservoir made for a moody late-autumn scene, this morning.

I’m getting my last.fm stats toy updated early this year. Look out, Spotify Wrapped! I’m also using this as an opportunity to try out the very exciting new Quarto dashboards capability.

The last couple of weekends I’ve been slowly working on some improvements to Armorer, my Destiny 2 loadout finder build in Shiny.

Notable enhancements for this release include:

• Huge revision of the backend method for stat calculation, making it more flexible and accurate
• Highlighting of masterwork items in display
• Proper forwarding of selected ability fragments to DIM for loadout building (this was harder than I thought it would be)

There are some bugs to address and optimization to perform, of course. But, with these improvements, the tool is finally just about as functional as I have long wanted it to be! I think it’s really pretty good, and I’m pleased and proud to have made something sophisticated and useful. I hope some more Destiny 2 players will try it out and let me know how it works for you.

The first cold days of autumn, plus some rainy overnights, left a small bit of snow just barely visible on the ramp of ridges that lead up to Ben Lomond Peak.