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August 1, 2026

swallows high above the crowd

swallows high above the crowd

Close-up of a vivid orange flower. I don't know what it is, but it seems to only bloom for 1 to 2 days a year before wilting.

Okay, still no download link this month, but just this morning I finally got my engine to successfully build a game for the web, so hopefully next month I will have something to share.

Further Reading

Some good thoughts about how to make a procedural generator stay interesting.

An absolutely gorgeous branching walking about game by Leonie Bolek. Those Playscii graphics are sublime.

I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham Is Dead: A searing, bitter obituary to a loathsome man by Magdalene Visaggio.

"This is the fear: You fear that every crisis will leave a scar, or unpick an old one, and you’ll be left with a build up of scars that taint you forever. You might ask:

“How can we possibly make any progress when we’re having all these crises?”

But of course…

When there's a crisis, three things can happen"

Look at these cool keys!

A sweet story about the retired penguin enclosure at the New England Aquarium.

Codeberg with a detailed, carefully argued blog post on their decision to ban LLMs from their repositories.

Who knew so much care went into the design of drinks cans?


I'm writing this outside in the summerhouse again for the first time in a while. It's nice being outside, listening to the trees and the birds. I hope you have plenty of trees and birds where you are, and that you're able to visit them now and again.

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