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Matthew Lang

Web developer with a preference for Ruby on Rails

Star Wars Battlefront 2 still going strong

Though there have been some dips since then, interest in the game has, overall, grown. Star Wars Battlefront 2 reached a new all-time concurrent player peak β€” 35,892 players β€” on June 22, with a consistent 20,000 people online at any given time. And these numbers are just for Steam; the game is available on consoles and Windows PC on EA’s proprietary launcher, but concurrent player numbers are not easily available there.

β€” Star Wars Battlefront 2 Is More Popular Than Ever Thanks To A Dedicated Fan Community

I’m not really surprised that this game is still going strong. Despite the rocky start EA had with the loot box system, the game has remained a popular choice. I still play it weekly. Maybe it’s the fact that I am a huge Star Wars fan, but games like Fortnite and Overwatch haven’t remained on my radar, and it’s been a long time since I played either of those games.

I updated my Rails app’s start script to launch Docker containers for PostgreSQL and Redis. I also added a kill script to stop them when I’m done coding. I hope this helps my struggling laptop battery by properly shutting down services.

It’s a quiet morning with some code and coffee. I am working through an issue with a product of mine using forms, Rails, and Sidekiq. I’m happy to put the time into this over the weekend, as it’s a core part of the product and will be reused heavily in the future.

A particularly tough email written tonight. One of those times where you need to write something, but you’d rather not. This had to be done though.

Apologies for being vague, but just had to get this off my chest.

I forgot how great the chatbots are in Basecamp. They can respond to commads and can communicate from outside apps.

I see they also allow the ability to use different formatting in their message content. That’s the next thing I think I will try and do. Nicely formatted chatbot messages.