Toots for mattround@crispsandwi.ch account

Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-22 at 10:30

Stuff some of you may not have spotted:

You can click the rear view mirror

Grab the sandwich more than once

If you choose "Use your own pic", you can then listen to Cheesy FM

Keep watching the sea, in most places something nasty happens

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 21:56

Beaumaris: found chippy in side street, ran back to car with chicken & chips, ate in car while it was shaken by storm

Llandudno 2: stopped at Deganwy on the way for some inexplicable reason, sudden rain, got wet & miserable, sat in car then decided to go home

Llandudno 3: unexpected downpour, new "kag in a bag" raincoats bought for everyone, still soaked & retreated to car

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 21:56

My family must've sat in the car in the rain at every town on the N Wales coast, some 'highlights':

Caernarfon: bloke went to boot of his car, took out a huge fish, & bashed its head against the wall

Didn't make it to Llandudno, road flooded, stopped & watched cars splash through it

Holyhead: briefly braved the elements before retreating, parked near a big ship and looked at it through the rainy windows

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 21:36

Is "going to the seaside" but then sitting in your car in the rain a thing that happens in other countries, or a uniquely British experience? (I remember it happening a LOT when I was a kid)

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 19:00

This isn't a call to boycott the US but, given how eagerly tech bosses have rolled over, it's not a stretch to imagine a situation where broad censorship is applied to sites or trade wars affect access to services

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 15:41

Been looking at https://european-alternatives.eu to consider what would be involved in detaching my site from US-based services, would be a lot of work & cost me more but good to start thinking about such things

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 13:38

The Twitter dev thread containing a fascinating/tedious [delete as applicable] explanation of how the rain sim was created no longer exists, but I’ll write it up again when I do a load of making-of vole site content

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 12:10

That's our actual car and I ate that sandwich

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 12:01

Feel like spending lunchtime at the seaside? I just fixed a couple of local stations in this, so pick your destination, click the radio, and enjoy the sandwich & flask of tea https://vole.wtf/british-seaside/

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 10:56

Still getting a trickle of new arcc users over a year after launch, feel a bit bad that it's a ghost town for them but it was designed to work as a single-player thing with other people just adding to the ambience https://vole.wtf/arcc/

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-20 at 20:27

If seeing its owner literally doing Nazi salutes at the podium isn't enough to get some people off ex-Twitter, I suppose nothing will

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-20 at 19:49

One of the most common questions people have about history ("How did Germany let the fascists take over?") won't be asked any more

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-20 at 18:31

Just optimised the images (lower res for blurrier stuff, then ImageOptim), whole game excluding sounds is 1.4MB

Looking forward to doing the audio in a couple of weeks, will have to find lots of piggy snorts & squeals

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-20 at 16:14

Love this about a "station of despair" you might end up at if you fall asleep on a Tokyo train; what are the best UK equivalents? https://soranews24.com/2024/12/21/station-of-despair-what-to-do-if-you-get-stuck-at-the-end-of-tokyos-chuo-rapid-line/ (via Tom Scott's newsletter)

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-20 at 11:33

Even if they fix it soon, I won't be able to use that feature without wariness/safeguards for years

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-20 at 11:11

Ugh, in MacOS Safari overscroll-behavior:none on root disables trackpad/wheel scrolling (scrollbars still work). FFS, Apple.

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-19 at 14:23

I never bought into the internet utopianism that predicted it'd help democracy & enlightenment flourish etc, but I did think at least the information would be out there for the curious to find, now even that looks naive & unrealistic

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