Ugh. Two inches (5 cm) of snow is such an annoying amount. Enough that you really do have to clean it up, but little enough that you feel like "why am I spending all this time for this small amount?"

Oh well. Outside vs. inside:

I did some extensive Twine Gardening on William Rous's game Type Help. This has timecode on the vertical axis and "references" (intended deduction progress?) on the horizontal. It's cool to me that it's so much of a line, with callbacks to earlier scenes occasionally.

Almost like a gauntlet structure, but with a totally different purpose. Here it's giving you a substantial feeling of freedom while actually keeping the possibility space from ever getting TOO far out of hand.

A couple more notes and a bigger version at https://joshgrams.com/2025/09/28/

Er. Why is Kiwix scraping wikipedia instead of... y'know, downloading the official data dumps the way wikipedia explicitly asks you to?

Also, why are they making links with the text "here" in 2025?

Ugh.

Messing around again with my Sunless Sea visualization experiment from a couple years ago...

Making progress, though oof, even from the data you can tell that the game engine is *such* a pile of little features accumulated over a decade or whatever. I generally think software archaeology (?) is fun though.

I was just looking at a book on bookshop.org and realized they had an e-book option. I thought, huh, interesting, I didn't know they did e-books.

And it sounds like it is new? https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/bookshoporg-is-now-selling-ebooks-113033975.html

But uh... you can only read them on their website or through their proprietary app so fuck that.