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flOw, the Flash game that lost its levels

Jenova Chen's 2006 Flash game flOw plays on archive.org as an empty black sea. The fix was one missing XML file and some MP3s. So I made it a tribute page where you can play it properly.

Resurrecting The Space Game, a dead Flash game, by faking its server

The Space Game has been unplayable since Flash died, and not because of Flash. The SWF everyone archived is a 16 KB loader that phones a server that no longer exists. I used Claude to read the obfuscated bytecode to work out the server protocol so we could mock the server. The game runs again.

OKF is just HTML with extra steps

Google's Open Knowledge Format and Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki are good in theory, but also a reinvention of something the web has had for thirty years. A tongue-in-cheek case for just using HTML.

Two AI agents merged their own code by taking turns through a git repo

I had Claude and Codex each build the same change to JST, then review each other, then needed one result. So I gave them a way to merge their own work: one shared branch, a turn file as a baton, one commit each, take turns. Seventeen turns later it was done, and they had caught each other's bugs on the way.

JST: reactive web components in plain HTML, no build step

A couple of years ago I built a todo app with nothing but HTML and JS, and a question stuck with me. What would a front-end component look like if the server could stream it down like htmx, but it still ran on the client like Alpine, with no build step? JST is my answer, and it's live.

Tribal Gods: a Populous clone built from a blank folder with Fable 5

In my Fable & Mythos ban write-up I mentioned, almost in passing, that I'd spent a few nights getting Fable 5 to build a Populous clone. It deserves its own page, and now it's live, open-source, and playable in your browser.

Anthropic Fable and Mythos global ban and timeline

For a few days in June 2026, Anthropic shipped Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and then the US government switched them off. What happened, what's happened since, and whether the lights come back on.