Tampered Monkeys

So I finally fixed a long-standing issue with the new database! There's a button to move records around that we have to click every time to enable drag-and-drop movement. It's not enabled by default and has never been enabled by default despite two years of asking for it and me bringing it up in meetings multiple times (yay external vendors!). So, I took two minutes and wrote a TamperMonkey script to click the button on page load, saving me several hundred clicks a day. And it works!

I showed it to my old boss and installed it for them, too, since their work requires clicking the button less often but they still have to do it for every record. They said they're going to share it around for everyone who has to work with the new database.

I mean, sure, hopefully I get recognized for this, but really I'm just happy I never have to click that button again.

Game Review: Stasis

Stasis came onto my radar thanks to this Rock Paper Shotgun review that praised the game in glowing terms. A kickstarted adventure game from a tiny South African studio that nevertheless managed to create a masterpiece of horror that spun its own unique feel out of its component parts. A game that was extremely effective at creating a mood, with a storyline that descends into "stomach-churning darkness." Sure, there were some annoying puzzles that had to be solved, and the characters were a bit one-note villain, but the rest of the game more than made up for those minor flaws through its baroque vistas and its visceral body horror.

The quality of its first three-quarters, from its sumptuously repulsive creature art to its gigantic-yet-claustrophobic industrial environments, and the way its survival-focused puzzles fly you forwards on dark wings of logic, would be impressive if they came from a Double Fine-sized studio, let alone a game whose credits take less time to read than a bus ticket.

That kind of thing.

Well, I disagree.

The space horror battle cry.

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