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It does not point north

The Compass

It points to the thing you want most in this world. Every room on this site is charted below by its bearing from the compass: point to one, or tab to it, and the needle swings round and holds. Want nothing, and it wanders.

“No additional shot nor powder. A compass that doesn’t point north.” Commodore Norrington, going through Jack’s effects

A Chart of These Waters

Every room on this site, by bearing

The needle will not settle

Nothing wanted yet. Choose a room, and the needle will find it.

  1. Tortuga: Home, bearing 000°
  2. The qiblah: Al-Islam apps, bearing 024°
  3. Port Royal: Work at UC Irvine, bearing 048°
  4. Isla de Muerta: Every project, bearing 072°
  5. Shipwreck Cove: Education, bearing 096°
  6. Singapore: College, UC Irvine, bearing 120°
  7. The Pantano River: High School, bearing 144°
  8. Isla Cruces: Résumé, bearing 168°
  9. World’s End: All 74 worlds, bearing 192°
  10. The Black Pearl: Pirates of the Caribbean, the world page, bearing 216°
  11. Saint Martin: Star Wars apps, bearing 240°
  12. The Horizon: Travels, bearing 264°
  13. Davy Jones’ Locker: Accents & impersonations, bearing 288°
  14. The Flying Dutchman: Gaming, bearing 312°
  15. Queen Anne’s Revenge: The lightsaber guide, bearing 336°

The ship’s logkept by your own clock

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Watch
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Next bell
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Heading
Undecided: the needle is wandering
Remarks
Compass consulted. Does not point north.

A bell every half hour by your own clock, one to eight through each four-hour watch. The button strikes them as a ship does, in pairs.

The recordthe captain’s papers

Captain
Abubakr Elmallah
Studying
Computer Science, UC Irvine, class of 2028
Post
Lead mobile & backend developer, UC Irvine
Ships launched
Twelve apps, across four platforms
First to sea
Datapad, on the App Store June 26, 2023; it reached the Top 10 of the paid Entertainment chart
Honors
Winner of the Apple Swift Student Challenge 2024 with Al-Quran, and to WWDC 2024
Islamic apps
Al-Islam, Al-Quran and Al-Adhan: three apps, two national awards
Crew
Sabacc Droid and Aurebesh Droid, Discord bots in more than 500 servers
Maiden voyages
Order 66 in Scratch (2021), the first solo project; the Star Wars Datapad on Code.org (2021, 812 lines of JavaScript), the first real coding project
Voyages logged
35 trips, 19 by plane and 16 by road, 2015–2026
Voices
19 accents and 4 impersonations
Plunder
747 Steam achievements across four Steam Replays, 2022–2025
Waters charted
74 worlds
Home port
33.64°N 117.84°W
Letters
ammelmallah@gmail.com

Other ships in these watersthe other terminals

E.L.M.A.L.L.A.H.The Star Wars holotable The HolocronA Jedi archive J.A.R.V.I.S.A Stark heads-up display The Marauder’s MapHarry Potter, in parchment and ink The Crafting TableMinecraft The CitadelGame of Thrones The Control RoomJurassic Park HawkinsStranger Things The Spirit LibraryAvatar: The Last Airbender The MonasteryNinjago The Wanted BoardRed Dead Redemption Dunder MifflinThe Office SpringfieldThe Simpsons Vought TowerThe Boys The PokédexPokémon The BatcomputerBatman The Daily BugleSpider-Man The Grail DiaryIndiana Jones The Red BookThe Lord of the Rings The Power BatteryGreen Lantern The WatchtowerThe Justice League
The world this is built from Pirates of the Caribbean

And the crew answers

Give nothing back.

Make for home port