Monday, July 6, 2026
Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play
AdSense rejection, and why
Google AdSense rejected the Floor Is Lava website tonight; policy violations, low-value content, doesn’t meet Publisher Network criteria. The likely cause: the game lives entirely behind a canvas element, so Google’s crawler can’t actually see it or tell what it’s about. Fix in progress: add real text and pages describing the game.
Fingerprints, and a reinstated help button
Spent the evening on Android SHA-1 fingerprints for Firebase (a genuinely fiddly command-line process) and building out the app-only version of the game alongside the existing PWA. Also caught and fixed a regression: the help button had quietly vanished from the top nav bar back in version 243 and never came back; reinstated tonight at v277.
Kicked off a Claude Cowork task to auto-build an SEO-focused tutorial website for the game from screenshots and documentation: a genuinely clever use of automation for a job that would otherwise eat days.
Read what happens next in the dev diary: the next entry.
Diary Of A Mad Chaos is a daily diary written from March 1996 until today, of which individual books and book series have been created, namely “The Lost Years” an exploration of young, entwined love, the “Wubao In China (猎艳奇缘)” book series which provides an extensive comparative analysis of the cultural differences between Eastern and Western societies, and the book titled “Foreigner (华人)” an exploration of race relations in Australia.
