Multi-interest geek, dad, farmer, gamemaster.

Interests

Tabletop Role Playing Games

Dungeon & Dragons

My prefered content creator: Slyflourish

Indie RPG

You can checkout my itch.io page: [https://bastleblanc.itch.io/] Solo RPG: Ironsworn, and a lot more!

## Music

My musical tastes are vast and eclectic, spanning genres that most people would never think to combine in a single playlist. When people ask me to describe my preferences, I give them a one-line answer: Radio Paradise. This incredible online radio station perfectly captures the essence of musical discovery that I crave.

Radio Paradise is basically musical chaos in the best way possible. You’ll hear a 60s jazz quartet followed by some random techno track, then classic rock, then metal. The DJs just throw whatever sounds good together, and somehow it works. No playlists, no algorithms trying to guess what you want - just good music that flows from one thing to the next in ways that shouldn’t make sense but totally do.

I guess there’s also a major theme here: Curated by humans ! Something about music selected by someone and not a playlist trying to maximise my engagement or any other KPI…

You can even checkout my profile and my song ratings here

An AI summary: Your Top-Rated Songs (8.0+)

  • “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” by Pink Floyd - 9.2 (your highest rating)
  • “Little Wing (live)” by Jimi Hendrix - 8.8
  • “Another Brick In The Wall [Parts 1 & 2]” by Pink Floyd - 8.8
  • “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye - 8.5
  • “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” by Pink Floyd - 8.4
  • “Teardrop” by Massive Attack - 8.4
  • “Your Time is Gonna Come/Black Mountain Side” by Led Zeppelin - 8.3
  • “Behind Blue Eyes” by The Who - 8.3
  • “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel - 8.3
  • “Cantaloupe Island” by Herbie Hancock - 8.3
  • “Glory Box” by Portishead - 8.2
  • “Karma Police” by Radiohead - 8.0
  • “Subterranean Homesick Alien” by Radiohead - 8.0
  • “How Soon Is Now?” by The Smiths - 8.0

Your Musical Preferences

Favorite Artists: You show strong preferences for:

Pink Floyd (3 songs, all rated 8.4+)
Radiohead (6 songs, ratings from 7.2-8.0)
Pearl Jam (3 songs, ratings from 6.6-7.9)

Genre Diversity: Your ratings span classic rock, progressive rock, jazz, electronic, and alternative music, showing eclectic taste.

Podcasts

IT / selfhosted

Outside of my job, I enjoy selfhosting a decent group of services:

Active Services

Media Management & Streaming

  • Plex - Media server
  • Kavita - Digital library (comics/books)
  • Bazarr - Subtitle management
  • Overseerr - Media request management
  • Prowlarr - Indexer manager
  • Radarr - Movie collection manager
  • Sonarr - TV show collection manager
  • Readarr - Book collection manager
  • NZBGet - Usenet downloader
  • Transmission - BitTorrent client

Network & Infrastructure

  • Traefik - Reverse proxy
  • AdGuard Home - DNS ad blocker
  • AdGuard Home Sync - Configuration sync
  • Cloudflared - Cloudflare tunnel
  • Cloudflare DDNS - Dynamic DNS
  • Mosquitto - MQTT broker
  • Socat - Network relay

Monitoring & Management

  • Dozzle - Docker log viewer
  • Glance - Dashboard
  • Watchtower - Container updater
  • Docker GC Cron - Docker cleanup
  • Home Assistant (HA) - Home automation
  • Strava - Fitness tracking integration

Productivity

  • Mealie - Recipe manager

unused Services (but ready to)

I have those services on standby, started only as required

Media & Entertainment

  • Calibre - E-book management
  • FoundryVTT - Virtual tabletop
  • Get iPlayer - BBC content downloader
  • Ghost - Blogging platform
  • Lidarr - Music collection manager
  • Pinchflat - YouTube downloader
  • Stirling PDF - PDF tools
  • VSCode - Code editor server

Tools

I use Obsidian at work for note taking and also for my personal notes.

Current Obsidian Plugins (Personal Vault)

Data & Visualization

  • Dataview - Query and display data from your notes using SQL-like syntax
  • Inline Admonitions - Create callouts and admonitions inline within text
  • Obsidian Admonition - Add styled callout blocks for notes, warnings, tips, etc.

Drawing & Diagrams

  • Obsidian Excalidraw Plugin - Create hand-drawn style diagrams and sketches

Gaming & RPG

  • Initiative Tracker - Track turn order and initiative for tabletop RPGs
  • Obsidian 5e Statblocks - Display D&D 5e monster and character stat blocks
  • Obsidian Dice Roller - Roll dice directly within notes for RPG sessions

Sync & Version Control

  • Obsidian Livesync - Real-time synchronization between devices
  • Obsidian Git - Version control integration with Git repositories

Interface & Navigation

  • Obsidian View Mode by Frontmatter - Automatically set view mode based on note metadata

Sourdhough Baking

My current process/recipe:

  • starter in the fridge
  • fed 10:45:40 (45g flour, 40g water)
  • when at peak, mix in Robot Ankersum for 10 minutes
    • 600g flour
    • 90 starter (keep ~10g for discard)
    • 385g water
    • 12g salt
  • 4x strech and fold every 30min
  • 2 hours Bulk Fermenting (might vary depending on current temperature)
  • cold proofing in the frige for 18-24 hours
  • bake in dutch oven, 230 deg, 27min lid on, 45 min total