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47 tips for Burnout Paradise (Remastered), still fun 15 (or 5) years later! 🚗💨
Okay, so maybe Burnout Paradise isn’t the hot new racing game, but it is an absolute classic with extremely satisfying gameplay. I recently re-completed it after finding it on Xbox / EA Game Pass, here’s a few tips I picked up along the way.
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4 recent Android game recommendations: Knights of San Francisco, .projekt, inbento, red 📲
I had a free trial of Google Play’s Game Pass recently, so had a chance to try out lots of paid games for a change! It’s definitely been a nice change enjoying games that aren’t asking for money constantly, here’s some I’ve had a great time with.
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A recommendation for Shopify's free logo generator 'Hatchful', and pros & cons of free logo tools
For a recent project (Code Cured), I needed a logo for basic branding. Whilst in the past I’ve made my own, I’m way too rusty these days, and don’t even have Photoshop installed! As such, I looked for online services, but found most of them required payment or had bad licensing. Luckily, Hatchful by Shopify seems to do everything I needed, including full ownership of the output!
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The complete guide to all 4 "secret" Forza Horizon 5 DLC cars (and 1 DLC outfit)
Forza Horizon 5 has a lot of cars, over 750 right now! Whilst almost all are obtainable for free or via car packs / expansions, there are a few “secret” cars that aren’t included in this count. In fact, many people don’t even know they exist, even those that think they have “all” cars!
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Some recent Android games I've enjoyed: Casting Away, Inventory Idle, Griddie Islands, and Fill-a-pix 📲
A mixture of games, can it be true!? A fishing game, an idle game, a Tetromino-y merge-y game, and a logic puzzle game! The games are mostly from Google Play’s rather chaotic recommendations, hence a bit of variety for once.
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My experience attending Amazon's virtual fulfilment centre tour
Whilst scrolling Instagram recently, I saw a sponsored post to tour an Amazon factory. As someone who uses Amazon heavily, I was intrigued. This unfortunately turned out to just be a virtual tour, but I still decided to give it a go! And no, this isn’t a sponsored post, I promise 😅
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What house can you afford? A calculator to simplify all house buying & selling calculations in the UK 🏡
Back in February this year, I completed the purchase of a house after owning a flat for a few years. Both of these properties had mortgages, leading to terrifying yet complex calculations that were absolutely crucial yet had no simple explanation! To solve this, I created a spreadsheet with all house-related calculations (e.g. budget), here’s an anonymised version.
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Reviewing 3 recent Android games I've greatly enjoyed: Slitherlink, Lone Tower, and Cell: Idle Factory
The last couple of months have seen a lot less time spent mobile gaming, mostly due to r/incremental_games temporarily shutting down. Despite that, I’ve still had a great time with a few games, with only one of them being an incremental / idle game this time!
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Analysing your Netflix viewing history: How much have you watched, when, and how?
With Netflix’s recent changes to account sharing, I was curious how my (shared!) account had been used over the last 10 years. To do this, I made a spreadsheet, and you can analyse your viewing history with it easily too!
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Using an income ratio spreadsheet & Splitwise to split household expenses fairly and transparently as a couple
Every couple I know has a different way of splitting their household finances, with the goal of making both sides contribute enough whilst also having financial independence. My partner and I use a method that handles bill increases, pay rises, and day to day purchases easily and fairly despite different incomes. Here’s an explanation and template, to save you trial and error!