#80 — Sun 02 November 2025 by Evan Chen

I opened Stephen's Sausage Roll today on a whim and started a new save file. I have no idea how I managed to play this game before holy crap it's so hard.

Literally was trying to find a tutorial level to remember how the rules worked and instead wandered around looking for any level I could do at all.

#79 — Sun 02 November 2025 by Evan Chen

Found the following poem that compiles in Perl 5.6.1:

BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit;  wait until time;
    open spell book; study; read (spell, $scan, select); tell us;
write it, print the hex while each watches,
    reverse length, write again;
           kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
              unlink arms, shift, wait and listen (listening, wait).
sort the flock (then, warn "the goats", kill "the sheep");
    kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
           values aside, each one;
               die sheep; die (to, reverse the => system
                      you accept (reject, respect));
next step,
    kill next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
           wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
    do it ("as they say").
do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
return last victim; package body;
    exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it.
           select (quickly) and warn next victim;
AFTERWARDS: tell nobody.
    wait, wait until time;
           wait until next year, next decade;
               sleep, sleep, die yourself,
                      die @last

#78 — Sun 02 November 2025 by Evan Chen

Spent part of yesterday getting a local Hanabi-Live working again so I could help bring some of the recent pull requests to the finish line.

This is super weird, but I think there's something about the jankiness of the code that I find charming. The website is feature-rich and has a lot of thought put into it, but you can also tell it's done by hobbyists and not a corporate entity. Gives it a bit of soul.

#77 — Sat 01 November 2025 by Evan Chen

Someone told me that ((1+√5)/2)³ = 2+√5 and I feel kind of spooked. Doesn't feel right that the denominator disappears.

Well, ℤ[√5] isn't integrally closed. Maybe that's a good way to drive that point home.

#76 — Sat 01 November 2025 by Evan Chen

I've reached the point where seeing Romanization of Korean words is annoying and I wish people would use 한글 so I can actually tell what the words are.