Last December I started seeing posts about talks given at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress. Notable talks were A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, outlining how important it is for the rest of the world to move off of the American tech stack and The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber where several white supremacist sites were hacked live on stage.

Lyra Rebane, one of the people from the CSS Crime scene on cohost was also holding a talk about using CSS to develop games. What absolutely delighted me is that she used one of my CSS Crime games I made on cohost as an example of how to use the <details> html element to create a point and click game.

Here is a link to the talk in question, timestamped to the part where the details element is explained. My game, Cache Server Varnishing Game! is the one that was featured in the talk and is shown a half minute or so after the timestamp.

One of the goals when I started making this website was to host my old CSS Crimes. Unfortunately that project fell way back on the backburner because it turns out that reworking those things into something that works the same way on this site is very tedious and error-prone. It gets worse when it is an image-heavy game like the one featured. I should probably get working on rehosting that one on this site though - it is my favorite of the CSS Crimes that I made on cohost and it deserves better than just existing on archive.org which, while it is a great and important service for maintaining a historical record of the internet, is really slow and janky and not very nice to browse.

So yeah. It is fun to see that people still remember this stuff. I sure miss it as it was an excellent creative outlet for me. That chapter has ended but new chapters have also begun. So it goes.

rykarn