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TLDR Fog Machine: https://fogmachine.8bits.io/ Source code: https://github.com/CaviarChen/fog-machine Nonsense background story Late last year, a friend and I published the Fog machine project: A 3rd party Fog of World data visualizer/editor. It got more popular than I expected and I became more addicted to Fog of World since then. So I want to build more things. I’ve talked to multiple people about what they want and it seems that the most common things are:...

Since entering Hong Kong in 2021 for my job, I didn’t make much progress in Fog of World. My daily life is mainly a straight line between work <-> home with a few hiking. I just went “moldy” by getting stuck here for so long (maybe also the crazy humidity here). My original plan was to have a long vacation and go back to mainland China early this year, but then there were giant covid waves in both Hong Kong and Shanghai....

A couple of months after the previous episode: A data parser for [Fog of World], we finally released the first version of [Fog Machine], a web tool for visualizing and editing the data of Fog of World App. It is a joint work with @tavimori and this tool wouldn’t exist without the great help from him. To use [Fog Machine], visit: https://fogmachine.8bits.io/ The source code can be found here: https://github.com/CaviarChen/fog-machine...

The source code can be found here: https://github.com/CaviarChen/Fog-of-World-Data-Parser I bought an app called Fog of World at the end of last year. I enjoy it a lot and dragged several friends into using the app. Actually, I knew the app and wanted the app when I was in high school. However, its price and the short battery life of mobile devices at that time stopped me. Now, I deeply regret that I didn’t get it earlier....

I actually don’t have the habit of writing blogs. I built the blog only because I brought the domain zijun.dev and didn’t want to waste it. After leaving the blog empty for over a year, I decided to renovate it and maybe write a blog about it. As a guy who is bad at and hate doing front-end stuff, there aren’t much things I can do. So I selected a new theme PaperMod and made some small modifications to make it looks a bit different (mainly the background)....