Blog Posts

1. 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.

2. Eventide’s Grasp

3. 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.

4. Autumn Haiku

5. Observed Subtle Pitfall of Capybara and Cypress

   A quick observation about the precarcity of UI driven testing; especially as the reflexive test preference.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.