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Someone replied with "survival mode" which is a great way to phrase it.

Maybe a few different modes? How many can you get out of 18, how long can you last (unlimited), and just a chilled relaxed mode.


Yep, instead of feeling like a fun puzzle the timer just adds unnecessary pressure and gets me really annoyed.


My guy that’s the whole point of the game. Otherwise it’s too easy


You can still be competitive in "casual mode" using total time used to solve all the words.


Not everyone plays games for purposeless dumb challenges and difficulty. Games are supposed to be fun. Sometimes you just want to chill and engage the brain at a leisurely pace.


> purposeless dumb challenges and difficulty

While I agree that for some people games with a time limit are not fun, I don't think the challenges and difficulty should be classified as "purposeless" and "dumb". For many the challenge/difficulty IS the fun part, and they serve a genuine purpose. If you don't like that, then play a different game, but that doesn't mean the game you don't like is useless.


Right. I don’t mean every challenge and difficulty is purposeless and dumb, just that those don’t have to be the goal, and that sometimes an easy game is what you want.

Tangentially, I have noticed some of the most well-balanced difficult games I have ever played were the ones with very granular difficulty settings. Examples include CrossCode and Celeste. Crypt of the Necrodancer too, though the customisation there feels like it crosses into too granular. In each I changed the difficulty settings exactly once, for optional challenges, and it made the games way more enjoyable.


Yeah. It's just a walk to the mailbox for my brain.


I just want to chill... I have plenty of stress in my life already.


If unscrambling 6 letters is causing you stress..... word games might not be for you.


I think a big part is the misperception that it’s “easier” and less effort to run stuff through LLM than to design an effective deterministic process.

Would love to know how you’ve managed to counter this as the drive to throw everything at LLMs is driving me insane.


Amongst lots of little tools, fed up of scribbling down my son’s football (soccer) scores in the Notes app, I cobbled together a little web app instead:

https://football.sensecall.co.uk/

Other parents on the team love it. The live sharing is pretty handy when some aren’t able to watch the game.


I’m not surprised with fuel at like £1.80/L and electricity as low as 3.5p/kwh

Makes EVs quite appealing.

https://carcosttool.com/ev-vs-ice-breakeven


It also helps that they drive nice and are more convenient for most people.


That was always my thing about early EVs. Thumbs up to the early adopters but it took a while to take off as a lot of the early ones were just car but battery and they weren't very polished and had a lot of downsides.

Now the experience is much improved.

Cars aren't just a pure cost benefit analysis.


They're also quiet and no combustion means no exhaust fumes.


> They're also quiet

As someone who lives near a busy road, I'm 100% all for them for this reason alone

The boy-racers doing 2x the speed limit with their loud exhausts and poppin can go do one


Agreed, though I was disheartened to find that we are now forcing electric cars to be loud because won't someone think of the pedestrians. There was a moment when EVs were quiet, and now there are some which drive by my house (residential neighborhood, so around 20 mph) that are louder than a well maintained ICEV would be at the same speed. The worst offenders are hybrids (looking at you, Toyota, with that unholy screech you make...)


> louder than a well maintained ICEV would be at the same speed

ffs why can't we have nice things??

The amount of 'eco' things that turn out worse...


Wondered about doing the same. Don’t suppose you have a repo or anything?


This can be done more affordably through Home Assistant using Hassarr.

https://github.com/TegridyTate/Hassarr


Interesting tweet on the topic here: https://xcancel.com/SamjLondon/status/2021084532187775244

> ... the agreement restricts the supply of court data to news agencies and journalists only.

> However, a cursory review of the Courtsdesk website indicates that this same data is also being supplied to other third parties — including members of @InvestigatorsUK — who pay a fee for access.

> Those users could, in turn, deploy the information in live or prospective legal proceedings, something the agreement expressly prohibits.


This aligns with the explanation given in response to the urgent question. What looks like a simple breach of contract issue is being weaponized in bad faith by politicians who spend far too much time time on the shadier parts of the internet.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-02-10/debates/037...


Yes, predictably…


I was hoping this might be a syntax or very very lightweight markup that could feed LLM generation of UI rather than just roll the dice to see what UI gets generated every time.


A tiny web app for busy weeknight cooking.

You tap in what ingredients you’ve got, add a time limit + a couple of preferences, and it gives you 3 genuinely doable dinner ideas with step-by-step recipes (no “manage your pantry”, no endless scrolling).

https://spud.recipes

It’s early, but people seem to like the “use up what you’ve got” angle. Feedback very welcome.


I did this as a once off.

Took photos of the fridge and pantry and asked the AI to identity all the food and create recipes.


https://spud.recipes

A tiny web app for busy weeknight cooking.

You tap in what ingredients you’ve got, add a time limit + a couple of preferences, and it gives you 3 genuinely doable dinner ideas with step-by-step recipes (no “manage your pantry”, no endless scrolling).

It’s early, but people seem to like the “use up what you’ve got” angle. Feedback very welcome.


I've tried it, looks fun!

P.S. You don't have "green onion" in the ingredients database =))


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