Something happened recently that, in hindsight, I would consider as a frustrating milestone. Without spoiling anything, let me frame the setting.

This is will probably be the first installment in a series of posts about an online multiplayer word game I’m developing as a side project: Snatch!. The process has brought up a lot of interesting topics, and I would like to share some of them.

I was posed a fun question the other day: If you only have 10 letters on your keyboard, which ten letters allow you to type the most number of different words. As this was posted on Twitter, I wanted to give the answer, and include the generating code.

Just the other day, I had a very low scoring game of Go, and both sides had very few points. That got me thinking: “What’s the lowest scoring game ever played?” This question is not well-defined because of captures and KOs. So I re-worded it to: “What’s the game that had the most number of living stones at the end?” or the “densest game.”

After spending the last couple of nights fiddling with my .vimrc, I think I’ve come up with a no-nonsense set of fold settings.