Another month of not enough time, and too much music to listen to. Instead of listening to new things, for the most part, I decided to go back in time a little… Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation However, firstly, I finally got around to listening to this. I had held off well past the actual release date to find some time to listen to it on vinyl for the first time. Harridan had grabbed my attention some time ago with it’s blend of newish Steven Wilson and newer PT, so was curious to see what the rest of the album would bring.

A month of little music, thanks to a fun combination of Covid, sick Grumpy Metal Kids, and too many meetings at $COMPANY, so fell back onto some old favourites. Hoping for a more musical month next time around! Wilderun - Epigone Six months on, and still playing the hell out of this. Not quite as good as Veil of Imagination, but when it hits, man, does it hit hard. Opeth - Damnation Cranking out some slightly more relaxed tunes in the sun.

There’s an old saying in the building trade (a trade that I’m utterly unfamiliar with, whose work often approximates black magic to this Grumpy Metal Guy) - Measure twice, cut once. The further into my professional career I get, the more I’m convinced that this applies not just to physical tasks, but software related tasks as well. In software terms, this saying is (roughly) translated to Quantify Everything. Statistics are the best tool in our arsenal to determine how well something is performing, how efficient our people and processes are, and how to compare two things in a non-subjective sense.

When I attempted to use the sqlite crate recently, I was surprised to see the following error when I attempted to build my project: error: linking with link.exe failed: exit code: 1181 … = note: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'sqlite3.lib' Short of building sqlite3 myself, which I wasn’t overly keen on doing for what should be a small portable little util, I wasn’t too sure what to do.