Low Ground — a field journal of sadness. Not a guide, not an answer: just a map left by someone who walked the low places.https://empfish.net/enhttps://empfish.net/en/posts/clearing-not-sunshine/https://empfish.net/en/posts/clearing-not-sunshine/The last waypoint, for now — on visibility, on the difference between getting better and being fixed, and on keeping the map.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTrecoveryweathermapshttps://empfish.net/en/posts/how-this-map-is-made/https://empfish.net/en/posts/how-this-map-is-made/Field notes on the machinery: simplex noise, bent terrain, contour lines drawn by a shader, and marching squares at build time.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcodewebglgenerativehttps://empfish.net/en/posts/books-for-the-low-places/https://empfish.net/en/posts/books-for-the-low-places/Six books that don't try to cheer you up — they just keep you company on the slope.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbooksreadingcompanyhttps://empfish.net/en/posts/switchbacks/https://empfish.net/en/posts/switchbacks/Why the way up from a low place zigzags — and why turning back on yourself still counts as climbing.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTrecoverypathspatiencehttps://empfish.net/en/posts/a-letter-to-whoever-is-down-here/https://empfish.net/en/posts/a-letter-to-whoever-is-down-here/Written from the lowest point on the route, for anyone reading it from theirs.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTletterslowest pointcompanyhttps://empfish.net/en/posts/how-to-draw-a-low-place/https://empfish.net/en/posts/how-to-draw-a-low-place/An interactive lesson in contour lines — you can't draw a valley directly; you trace the ground around it.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmapsinteractivecontourshttps://empfish.net/en/posts/rain-generated/https://empfish.net/en/posts/rain-generated/A rain you can switch on at three in the morning — made from noise, filters and the occasional drip — and why it helps.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoundnightrainhttps://empfish.net/en/posts/things-that-weigh-more/https://empfish.net/en/posts/things-that-weigh-more/A scale for the small objects of a low day — what they actually weigh, and what they weigh in the hand.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTlistseverydayefforthttps://empfish.net/en/posts/a-tuesday-that-didnt-end/https://empfish.net/en/posts/a-tuesday-that-didnt-end/Fragments logged through one long grey day, timestamp by timestamp.Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTfragmentstimefoghttps://empfish.net/en/posts/contour-interval/https://empfish.net/en/posts/contour-interval/Why this journal draws sadness as terrain instead of as a flaw — and what a map can do that advice can't.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTmapssadnessbeginnings