My library puts out curated lists of “books similar to XXXXX” and if you opt in, can do it for your borrowed book list

Can’t wait for @dereklowe.bsky.social to drop a new series of Things I Won’t Work With based on this.

The actual ETA application process was bonkers when using the iPhone app.

1. Enter my information
2. Read the passport information from the chip
3. Make a 3D scan of my face
4. Take a photograph of my face
5. Pay

Entire thing took about 5 minutes. My application was accepted about 2 minutes later.

I don’t have time to bind books so give me all of the special editions.

When the mud starts, it checks the version file in the repo against the one in the local cache. If a file has changed, the new version gets downloaded from the repo, otherwise the cached version is used.
Magical distributed automatic updates.

Let's say your mud's data files are stored in... a GitHub repo or release or something. Included in this set is a version file.
Your mud downloads the data files the first time it runs. The service worker caches those files.

2. a super more interesting thing is this:

Service workers (web.dev/learn/pwa/se...)

Service workers can intercept network requests and use a cached version instead. This allows offline access to sites, as long as those sites are in the cache. What's a fun use for that?

The game just knows it has an input queue and an output queue and what the queues do is up to them.

like a dozen other things.

And since this is _also_ asynchronous messaging, the game handles it the same. Probably somewhere in there is some logic like "if to == local then use postMessage instead of websocket" or something.

The Host create a connection to the router. Players also create connections to the router. Messages get moved around appropriately.

There's really no need to build your own router with this, either. This is a _really_ common architecture and could be implemented with Firebase or Redis or

But it can create bidirectional outgoing connections. Like with websockets.

So what we do is what we build something like a connection router. It accepts connections and redirects them around.

Of course with a little bit of magic we can make this better. The existing system (UI -> message -> worker) is basically single-player -- a SUD, if you will. If we want to get that M back, we need to rethink the architecture. Naturally, the browser cannot accept incoming connections.

I don’t think the kids’ German passports will be ready in time tho

Oh and planning for the trip:
* SIM cards for making calls in Ireland
* collect some euros
* Ireland compatible chargers

Tough call.

I think I can handle a bad movie adaptation more. You might run into a situation where the bad adaptation is good in its own right or maybe it reflects a different perspective. (looking at you, like half of PKD's adaptations)

This all the way.

But we have a sweet Eames chair that would go great with that’s aesthetic.

I absolutely love Tailchaser’s Song (by Tad Williams.) I thought the cats’ lore was really well done. It felt like something I already knew, but from a different angle. Everything is described just slightly differently than I would do it.