Hi, I'm Sarina White
Research and writing on tech, gardening, and other things I'm curious about.
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Nine Sols — 30 hours, PS5 platinum
Notes on platinuming Nine Sols on PS5. A few missable trophies to watch out for, some genuinely hard boss fights, and a metroidvania I'd actually recommend even if you bounced off Hollow Knight.
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Building a Discord Tool to Find an FFXIV Raid Static
I wrote a Tampermonkey userscript and a local Python server to automatically scan LFG posts in Discord and tell me which ones are worth reading. Here's what was actually hard about it.
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Encoding a Repetitive Research Task as a Claude Skill
How to take a manual multi-source research process and turn it into a structured, reusable Claude Code skill.
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Letting AI Trim Its Own Instructions
I asked Claude to review a skill file it uses every session and identify what it didn't need. It worked.
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Plantera 2 platinum — a few hours plus an overnight, PS5
Notes on getting the Plantera 2 platinum on PS5. Idle game, fast platinum, mostly hands-off once you have the setup running.