There used to be a laser tag place in the city called Zone 3. Back in the late 90s and early 00’s they would run Midnight To Dawn sessions. All night, unlimited games until the sun rose, Prodigy, Orbital and The Shamen blasting, plus it was also the only place here you could buy Jolt Cola. Basically it was Hackers vibe with laser guns. A bunch of regulars to these events and the pro league players would come to know the place inside out, every hidey hole, every sniping nest, every base weakness and common travelled path’s choke point.

Earlier this year I noticed a very cool project posted by Martin Woodward. He had made an Octolamp, a 3D printed Octocat (mascot and logo of GitHub) lit by RGB LEDs inside it that could be controlled via Wi-Fi using a web interface and API. I have a bit of a history with loving things that light up and have cool designs attached, so I thought this was a really cool project to build.

I have actually put something here finally! I’m still building it for now, learning Hugo, but this is up using GitHub Codespaces for development and authoring, GitHub Actions for automated build and deploy and GitHub Pages for hosting! Like a real dev!

Hello, I am Ben.