I started writing this post on the 8th of November and have just now gotten around to finishing it.

Figuring out what my snails are doing and why is getting close to impossible. I’ve got snails eating each other, or refusing to eat proper food, or for some reason not mating even though their sex drive should be pretty high. I used to print stuff out to one big default log file (laravel.log), but this soon became unmanageable because I was printing logs associated with multiple actions for multiple snails at the same time.

One cool thing about Stockholm is how easy it is to get to both a central location and a green/forested area.

I’ve written about snail breeding here before, at length. However, since I now want snail behavior to go through the brain I had to rework the trigger that led to two snails mating and producing offspring. A few different things had to be prototyped to make this work, especially because in a snail’s mind there is no real way of distinguishing food from another snail without learning from experience and some basic instincts to guide the way.

Last Friday night I attended what was apparently the first ever Laravel Meetup in Sweden. I’m glad I actually made myself go, because I’m not really good with social engagements. I don’t tend to go out much and sometimes end up just not bothering and staying home at the last minute.

The brain thing is really getting out of control.

Yesterday I ran into this problem:

Fatal error: Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting!