first non-gutenberg book tomorrow. am surprised they didn't have a copy, but i found one somewhere else.
prompted me to make some more changes to index.html - minimal instructions.
― koogs, Sunday, 18 September 2022 13:04 (two years ago) link
I’ve got the title today I think, The Death of Ivan Ilyich but won’t take the last word. Any idea what I’m doing wrong.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 19 September 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
i did notice variations in the spelling when i was trying to find a copy, mine has an extra t in it (the letter count would be a clue)
― koogs, Monday, 19 September 2022 12:02 (two years ago) link
That makes sense, I did wonder if the spelling was wrong. Interestingly Wikipedia doesn’t suggest an alternative spelling.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 19 September 2022 12:48 (two years ago) link
it's the public domain translation from 1900 or so by Constance Barnett so it might be that. it's all over archive.org (albeit as scans)
― koogs, Monday, 19 September 2022 13:46 (two years ago) link
got todays in three, (typed the title as one word instead of two), very memorable opening line.
― ledge, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 07:54 (one year ago) link
i was surprised but that's how it is.
https://github.com/acdean/all_the_year_round/blob/master/atyr_1866_mugby_junction/1866_mugby_junction.txt
line 3109... that said, the toc has it as one word
― koogs, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
oh, that's more spoiler-y than i imagined
Comes up as "something's gone wrong" for me today.
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
um, you might've run out. I've been putting them up only a few days in advance and whilst the laptop does have 1008 on it i may not have uploaded it.
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
yeah, was exactly that. pushed now...
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
Ah cool! I got it straight away but I think it might be one of those ones where the punctuation messes with it realising that you completed the title.
No worries if this is a project you don't want to be tied to forever, but I will say that I play daily and enjoy it a lot.
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
oh, you are right
i've typed in all the words in the title and it's still saying i have the following left to type:
Array [ "", "" ]
so, yes, a genuine bug (and i should've checked that). i do wonder if the other bug report from above is apple converting an input ' to the curly version, because i couldn't reproduce. but this isn't that.
october's theme has helped with any ennui i may've had given that i have more ideas than i have days. but, yeah, that's 130 i've done now...
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
bug fixed - the opening and ending quotes confused it. the fix is to not add empty words to the title words list.
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
rats, i thought i'd done up to the end of the month but there's a hole on the 28th -31st.
i've added one for today and 1101 - 1103, will try fill the gap appropriately later. (all october was horror stories of some stripe or other, including an entire week of vampire stories)
― koogs, Monday, 31 October 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
calamity. did a bunch of new games the other day and didn't push them so it's been broken the last week.
and i checked the 'previous games' page and there was a bug - using "+" to concat two numbers added them instead (which i didn't see when i wrote it because of the way i padded single digit mm and dd numbers which converted them to strings)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
All the recent games come up "Something has gone wrong..."
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
yeah, i ran out of books / enthusiasm. there are about 10 month's-worth, so anything from 0601 to 1231 and 0101 to 03xx will work.
ie
https://acdean.github.io/bookish/index.html?0328
― koogs, Friday, 12 May 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
(0404 is the latest)
― koogs, Friday, 12 May 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
https://acdean.github.io/bookish/
ok, tidied that up now - if it can't find a game for 'today' then it'll link to the new archive page that lists all available games so you can choose.
if anyone has ideas for books to add then let me know. (the full list of 306 (spoilers!) is at https://acdean.github.io/bookish/titles.txt)
― koogs, Sunday, 14 May 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link