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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Ugh, first impression matter immensely, and I dropped that ball, eh? :(

    For what it’s worth, I’ve set the captcha library back to its default settings, so hopefully the defaults are less obnoxious. The library I’m using is pretty popular, so I was guessing that bots would have fully trained their way around it by now, and so I chose some slightly less obvious fonts to put up a tiny bit of a barrier, but ya know, the balance of “legible for humans” and “hard for bots” is very hard. And I am no expert on captcha design





  • After extended sessions of any of the Telltale adventures (Walking Dead, etc), I would spend about 10 minutes post-game with the sense that real-life conversations were like, scripted, and I was navigating by selecting the best option.

    Arguably, not a wrong assessment of life, but it feels really gamified when affected