Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — CITLOSK Wordo: FLANK

  • A novel reason for forced music in publicly accessible space

    The ongoing degradation of publicly accessible space in the UK continues. For many years I've been concerned about the rise of piped music in third places: you basically have to pay to be in public without artificial noise.

• Technology and Free Software

  • First post. ~silv is online!

    I opened this site on envs.net four months ago, in January 2025, with a very small parking page.

  • 🎮 What I'm playing 🐈🍞 CATO | cat + toast = puzzles

    I found CATO through a Steam Next Fest in 2024. The first few levels in that demo were promising enough to get me to wishlist the game.

    CATO is in a corner of the puzzle game genre I like to call "single-player co-op" since you control two characters at the same time. The cat can run and climb but can't jump, while the toast can jump sideways and up walls but is helpless on ice. When the two are assembled together, their abilities are combined and they also gain infinite jumps. Almost all puzzles in the game involve splitting up and reassembling at the right times.

    There's also a basic plot about running out of milk and going out to get more. For a puzzle game, that's enough of an excuse to get the game started. Story is obviously not the reason a puzzle game fan would play this.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • What I'm playing 🐈🍞 CATO | cat + toast = puzzles

      I finally got around to setting up a gemlog! For my first major post, I'm republishing a writeup about my experience playing CATO, a puzzle game about a cat and buttered toast.