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Blog Posts
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Errant Campaign Set in Helvéczia
Summarizing last Monday’s session 0, in which the players picked adventuring in Castle Xyntillan. A decision that spawned further research and exploration.
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Eventide’s Grasp
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Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere…Or Maybe Not Automating Everything
To be in the place where I’m initiating a conversation based on a blog post.
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Autumn Haiku
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Observed Subtle Pitfall of Capybara and Cypress
A quick observation about the precarcity of UI driven testing; especially as the reflexive test preference.
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Ruby Bundler Tooling for Exploring a Breadth of Gems
A couple of quick functions that came about after a conference workshop. These two functions help track down files and code across the myriad of “bundled” libraries.
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Test Driven Debugging
A presentation for Samvera Connect 2023 where I went over a real world scenario of resolving a bug by way of writing tests. This involved refactoring to improve the state of the code while also demonstrating expectations around the given solution. From this, I generalized an approach for fixing bugs within an application; and provide guidance on how to submit those changes upstream.
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What Has Me Excited about Gaming?
I’m looking forward to starting a new campaign; the creative process of designing situations and providing rumors to those situations. And from there sharing in the gaming experience with a few friends.
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Preparing for a Face to Face Campaign
Some preliminary notes for an upcoming campaign using Ava Islam’s “Errant”; including rumors to several opening adventures.
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Copilot and the Art of Distraction
I have found Copilot detremental and distracting to my programming process. It offers up solutions that are not 100% accurate, but more damning than that expands the context of writing code to one that involves writing, editing, and reading code in many small bursts. Which I have observed accelerates my mental exhaustion, because I’m now more rapidly context shifting.