Fire's house
Hi! My name is Fire (he/they). My interests take the form of months-long single-minded obsessions which come and go at random. Right now, I'm intersted in Balatro and cryptic crosswords.
I'm currently tracking my win rates in Balatro on Gold stake for different decks. Aesthetically, I'd like to say that "True Balatro" is a game where you first select a deck uniformly at random and then play a run on that deck. Once I have more data, I will be able to report my win rate at True Balatro.
I have recently created some cryptic crosswords of my own! See below for the tool I used to do this. (Links coming soon.)
- Pip pip, cutie! (PNG)
- Unfriend me back (PNG)
- Initialization machinery (PNG) — created with my friend Lynn
I have good opinions about equality.
If you think money is worthless in our capitalist semi-dystopia, you can let me have some of yours.
Projects
- Perplexions — a puzzle game I wrote by hand in pure Rust in just ten days. Probably my favorite single project I've completed.
- One Down, a simple utility to convert a markdown-like format for describing crossword puzzles into a PNG.
- clubs-diamonds — an expression brute-forcer for code golf. It's a Rust crate! I have saved many bytes in code golf using this, and a few other people have saved a few bytes.
- flower-pot — a simpler Rust crate that just gives short handles to all the ANSI color-codes and styling-codes. I wrote this because I'm too lazy to use any of the ones that make you learn a paradigm of string.color(Color::RED) -> ColoredText.
Past obsessions
Here are some things I've been obsessed with in the past. Once I get obsessed with something, I'm usually at least cursorily interested forevermore.- Go — an ancient Chinese board game about putting stones on the board and keeping them there (not about surrounding territory). I play online at OGS, and offline.
- Code golf — an arbitrary competition of trying to write the shortest code possible that completes a given task. I play on code.golf.
Essays
- Good opinions about equality — everyone deserves to be treated kindly, including people we progressives often exclude, such as men.
- Go is about stones — the Japanese ruleset for Go is bad, and we should all be using the Chinese ruleset instead, or better yet, the Ancient Chinese ruleset (stone scoring).
Contact & links
My Discord username is fagri (Lojban for "fire"). Shoot me a friend request!
I am friends with Rose, who helped me make this website.