Tetris 99. Wow. At first I was skeptical. I don’t like competitive games as a general rule. I see games as a way to understand their creator, or myself, or to challenge myself to grow, or to give me material for other ideas. When the content is centered around what other people do and how they react to things, this changes the game fundamentally for me, and then it doesn’t really fit one of the driving reasons I play them.

I made progress on that MUD I’ve been working on. Try it out (yea, naming things is hard): git clone -b v0.1.0_share https://gitlab.com/modle13/queue-mud.git cd queue-mud docker-compose up Over the weekend, I got it working nearly back to the state it was before dockerizing. There’s a bit less logic (the creatures decision point just returns a string), and the Angular frontend is still disabled. I had had a publisher and consumer working back in early January, but now it has the whole chain: command > validate > attack if command is attack and there’s a target > response queue.

Minimalism doesn’t mean giving up everything you own. It means measuring the utility and acknowledging the opportunity cost of owning those things. I recently went on a trip where all I had with me was a few days’ change of clothing, my phone, a few books, a notebook, and a laptop. It was glorious. No stuff in the way. No stuff not in the way to think about. Everything I needed and nothing more.