The blog post I was reading to try to figure out how to deal with the GitHub API’s requirement of base64-encoded data used the cheese emoji as some of its example data. I still haven’t fixed the bug so the poor cheese emoji will render like 🧀
via graham:
Today, my friend and I launched another new version of our puzzle game named Wizard Sokoban (working title). You can play it on itch.io for free, though it works best on a computer using firefox:
Go try out Wizard Sokoban! I got to level 13 the day after it was released and at that point it’s really unfurling into something more complex. I’m excited to play more!
MY FRIEND: whoa, we haven't seen you since like 2022. Where have you been?
ME: I... I... don't remember?
me, a 20-year-old, watching a 65-year-old person struggle to remember a childhood memory: heh, wow. skill issue I guess. not me, I've got this little thing called BRAIN TRAINING, I just do these every day and you'll never catch me looking like that. sucker
me, a 40-year-old, seeing something about ZZT: goddammit
guy who just happens to get really into blogging on October 1, 2024, without understanding what compels him
something I believe strongly is that you cannot skip track on Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice". Once it starts playing, you have to listen to the whole thing
My friends[who?] should be allowed to add Wikipedia-style superscript notes to my posts
had a truly sick idea last night revolving around combining short-term cookies with JavaScript setTimeouts in order to fake long-polling (because you have to have GitHub API credentials in order to poll the GitHub repo) and then realized the only user who needs long-polling to auto-refresh is... the person who has API credentials
image posts... I need them
the site upgrades are piling up, I should really backport them to octobug 🤔
among some post editor improvements (better mobile support!) NEW posts should have a new permalink structure while OLD posts retain their old URLs (to hopefully avoid bombarding feeds with "new" posts, and to avoid breaking what I'm sure are hundreds of links to my first ~25 brilliant posts)