Mastodawn

Revived an old blog to ramble about my media consumption as I don't seem to be doing anything useful anyway.

https://ascentress.tech/posts/games-2025/
https://ascentress.tech/posts/books-2025/

Games 2025 • Through the Polarizing Filters, and What Alice Found There

It was somewhere in the middle of 2025 when I realized that I could not find a speck of motivation to do anything else besides media consumption (aside from work, which I am obligated to do). Goals are goals, I told myself, and so I’ve set myself on the path of completing at least 12 games. The year was pretty much a success in that regard. As for 2026, I will try to focus on experiencing a handful of games more thoroughly. I also don’t have that many unplayed (personal) GOTY hits lined up after 2025.

Through the Polarizing Filters, and What Alice Found There

ascentress Sep 30, 2025

https://messenger.abeto.co/
This is the kind of stuff I had hoped to see when everyone was going about Web2.0 and HTML5 or whatever (yes, it has nothing to do with 3D, but rather with "killing" Flash).

...well, *maybe* the thing we needed to get there was an easy to use library like *cough* threejs *cough* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Messenger

It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.

ascentress Sep 17, 2025

I feel like obfuscating progress bars was a mistake. Even user-friendly app stores communicate *some degree* of installation progress. :(

ascentress May 13, 2025

https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

This is obviously a joke with some nostalgia for the simpler times sprinkled in, but I am on my second day of trying to set up a very basic thing in a front end framework and it doesn't work due to something somewhere not being compatible with something else. Everything is obfuscated by 20 layers of dependencies and generated code so this was a therapeutic read, mkay.

Just fucking use HTML

Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.

Just fucking use HTML