“It’s hard for a hungry man to swager”

This line from The Tale of Thorleif Earl’s Poet has gotta be one of the greatest lines from all of Icelandic saga literature.

After having dithering-fun making dither it and pico cam I made a little game, currently called “puzzle dungeon,” which I admit isn’t a very good name at all. Puzzle dungeon is part logo, part dungeon crawling rogue-like and it doesn’t have anything whatsoever to do with dithering.

Otherwise on things computer, I’m back to learning about logic programming — specifically prolog, mini kanren and picat. I really like them, and, like functional programming and array programming I’ve found that logic programming has quickly poisoned my thinking when I go to solve problems in more general purpose sorts of situations.

I updated the projects section of my wiki. Stuff is a wee bit more organized there, now. Things are organized into 3 categories:

1. Games, which are games I’ve made
2. Toys, which are playful things that you can use in the browser
3. Tools, which are libraries and explorations and utilities — this is the broadest of the categories

…and a secret fourth category of miscellaneous other stuff.

Beyond those computer things, summer is in full swing! I’ve been reading a lot of fantasy. I think I’ll turn back to sci-fi, soon. I’ve also been watching a bit of anime. I’m trying to fill a Frieren shaped hole in my heart. No dice so far, though I’m a few episodes in to a show called Ranking of Kings. I have mixed feelings about it that I won’t go into at length, but the tl;dr of it is that it is telling a story that centers disability in a few forms…and sometimes I think it lands it, and other times I think it very much doesn’t.

Frog search.