2025-12-21 07:08:17 UTC
Winter Solistice Update

Final stretch of the year, final stretch of moving stuff
INTO THE CYBER HOLE!

The year's been awful, for both obvious and subtle reasons. But I'm
quite happy with what I've done with cyberhole.online. The front-end is
clean and simple, doesn't rely on any complex build machinery. The
back-end is a little messy, being a web server *and* a Java server, so I
can run Kawa. But it's better than Node & Postgres on the old server.

The final(?) TinyBasicWeb update of the year brings us to 0.9, having
gone as far as Level 1 can go, I have a final gift:
https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=xmas.bas

Ported from a JS widget on the old site, this took a bit of doing to get
into BASIC but it works fine now. At the snow screen, you can hit
F for Fast, S for Slow, ESC to escape.

There's also Matriculated Rain:
https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=matrix.bas

and Robots!
https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=robots.bas

In the next year, I'll finish getting Mystic Dungeon to load/save to the
server, in addition to local. That lets me put up scoreboards again! I
also plan to get a real skill & magic system into it, and update the
dungeons some more. In the original doorgame version 30 years ago, I
updated the dungeons every semester or so. Yearly may be more practical
now.

Mudhole needs a giant content update, and https, I just haven't had time
or spoons to work on that.

Happy Solistice, congratulations on making it thru another year!
We're gonna fuck up 2026 even harder, let's go!

-mdhughes, "Digital Mark"
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend. Live long and prosper."