This is a useless thing I made on a whim, but here you go. InkyDoc, a Google Docs add-on that lets you write and play Ink stories directly in Google Docs. Try it, let me know if it works for you. Inky Doc Add-On

Code is available on Gist. It's based on inkyjs, Ink's javascript port.

All the info is also available on this cute little website I made.

Every song was basically just smooth jazz or soft rock instrumentals, but where the lead singer or main instrument should have been playing, there was just a loud, constant car horn.

h/t jackie's 4'33'' mix

If you have good arguments why this is a bad idea, then please let the Chromium developers know" yeah how about "because some computer users might have needs or preferences despite, somehow, not being a software developer"

software developers imagine computer users who do not have all the knowledge and life experiences you've had [challenge level: github]

like there's this thing where Apple's contract with Bill Atkinson required them to ship HyperCard with every new Mac for some period of time, because the point was that it was a way for users to become developers gradually, in a friendly way, which allows them to treat the machine as their partner not their exploiter. yes, that sort of thing was a big deal even back then - think of the famous Apple Superbowl commercial themed after Orwell's 1984.

but only a couple years later Apple decided it wanted to charge money for HyperCard, so they created HyperCard Player, which wasn't supposed to be able to make stuff, only use stuff other people had made. an early example of a tech company letting the public build out a commons, then trying to enclose it. as kids we absolutely could not afford any commercial software whatsoever, let alone a multi-hundred-dollar program like that, so we would have been screwed.....

but! the developers rebelled and put in an easter egg where if you typed the word "magic" on a specific page of the home stack, all the editing functionality would unlock. there was no on-device documentation for the embedded programming language, so you needed to either reverse-engineer it or get a third-party book about it - we did a lot of both, it was fun

we could name older and newer examples of this tradition but this is the one we personally benefited the most from

Google has done a terrifying job of convincing its developers to abandon their community and focus on greed instead

we know people on the Chrome team, we know they don't see it this way, but.... WTF?

it occurred to us after sending the above that we should not accept reduced notions of ourselves

and buoy are my arms tired