reflections
Below are all of the posts with the reflections tag. A post tagged with reflections means that it is about reflections. If a post references reflections but does not have the tag, then the post will not be in the list below. If a post has the reflections tag or mentions reflections, then it will be in the Glossary for "reflections".
I have ordered the posts from newest to oldest:
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Thinking Through Capturing and Annotating “Bad” Code
First Steps in Following up on Morning Coffee Talk Inspiration
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How to Grow Programmer Instincts to Help You Avoid Bad Pathways
Or, How Does One Share Lessons Now Internalized?
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The Wastelands of Discord and the Fall of Twitter
Ever Collapsing Channels of Digital Communication
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Other Hands and Other Minds Fanzines
Stumbling Upon a Fanzine Sparks Memories and Reflections
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Campaign-Level Questions for a Solo Campaign
Building a Mystery
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The Purpose and Joy of Role-Playing Subsystems
Modeling the Guide Posts of Expectant Play
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Reflections on Sessions 1 through 7 of the Travels of Duinhir Tailwind
The Joys of Solo Gaming
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Burning Locusts: Session 10
A Few Dossiers, a Street Chase, and a Warning from a Concerned Friend
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Trait Vote Sessions in Burning Wheel
Sometimes Talking About the Game is More Important than Playing the Game
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Musing about Failure Consequences in Role-Playing Games
Let Failure Open More Pathways
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Building via the Wises of Burning Wheel
A Mechanic for Player Pushback and Involvement
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The Serendipity of Pairing with a New Developer
Learning as I Watch Others Navigate Their Toolbox
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Mental Model Minute: Relationship Triangles
Understanding Our Approach and Its Impact
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Trick or Treat, I’ve Joined the DEV Team
With the Changing of the Season comes a Changing of the Job
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Caffeinated Dream States and Leaving a Job
And the Frustrations of Trying to Solve Problems in a Dreamscape
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What We Lose as We Change Platforms
A Season of Change
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Working through the Fallout of a Moldbreaker Artha Award
Something Must Change, Let’s Do Some Digging
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A Wonderful Cascade of Tests in Burning Wheel
The Dice Helped Tap Some Amazing Narrative Beats
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Burning Wheel and What’s the Deal with Wises
Or Hey Where’s My Investigation Skill?
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Organizations Live and Die by Process
Steward Those Processes in Service to the Goals and Values
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What Do We Lose When We Sack Libraries?
The Cult of Efficiency Demands Sacrifices
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“The Legend of Vortigern” by Simon Heywood
A Pre-Arthurian Legend Teetering on Myth
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Whom Do You Miss the Most?
Reflections of a Blog Post, an Epic, and Parenthood
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Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-17)
Campaign Play, Mystery, and Group Mythology
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The Ruby Throne
An Elric Graphic Novel
- Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-13)
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Delving Further into the Why of Emacs
It’s Reducing Context Shifting
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Responding to “How to be a senior Engineer?”
For me, it’s about Communication and Mentoring
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Giving Platform
That Which I Give Energy Invariably Owns Me
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A Journey to Conjure Those Now Gone
Memories that Stick and Haunt
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Holding Off on Chasing a COVID Vaccine
And I Hope You Reflect Deeply on When Should Be Your Turn
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Perhaps An Odd Farewell
Reflecting on a Dream, These Days of Mine, and Wishing Well A Friend Moving On
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“The Book of the New Sun” by Gene Wolfe
A Complex Dream-like Journey and Transformation Story
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Deplatforming
Don’t Cede Your Voice
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Wrapping up the Year
Accomplishments Echo Hollow when We’ve Set the World Aflame
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Discussing the Open Gaming License
Poor Clarity of Open Game Content Sucks; And Doubly so for the Aggressive Product Identity Declarations
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Toggling Keyboard Mapping for Org Roam
Dynamically Changing Keyboard Shortcuts to Match Working States
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Revisiting Hydra Menu for Org Roam Lookup in Emacs
A General Solution (Thusfar)
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Adding Hydra Menu for Org Roam Lookup in Emacs
Pre-Populating ‘org-roam-find-file’ to Help Topic Lookup
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Let's Read “The End of Policing” by Alex S Vitale
Reading for Further Context on Systems
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“Bread and Freedom” by Albert Camus
“Freedom is made up especially of duties” – Albert Camus
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Today Has Been a Hard Day
Looking for Hope in Dreary Days
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Desperate Role-Playing Moments
Shared Fictional State with Clear Tightening Consequences Build Desperation
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Seeking Inspiration
Finding inspiration in “The Silk Road” and “DCC RPG Annual”
- Switching from Inoreader to Newsboat for RSS Reader
- Free Time During a Pandemic
- Books I Read (or Started to Read) in 2019
- Farewell to Google Analytics
- Why Hugo when I'm A Rubyist
- Exposing More Metadata for Take on Rules
- Ruby Script to Extract Post for RPGGeek
- Session 2 exploring the Thel-Sector of “Stars without Number”
- Session 1 of a “Stars without Number” Campaign
- Adding a “Stars without Number” Dataset for gm-notepad
- Introducing GM Notepad: A Command Line Tool for GM-ing
- Reading Challenges
- The Trees Lean In
- Thank You for the Donations (and We Still Need More)
- Prelude to Fables: Part 1
- I'm Helping to Open Fables Bookshop in Downtown Goshen Indiana
- “Faust: A Tragedy” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Better World Books Closing Goshen Store
- Tables of “Take on Rules”
- “The Riddles of the Hobbit” by Adam Roberts
- Reflecting on Migrating from Wordpress
- Three Book RPG
- Own Your Tools
- Reviewing Top Content from My Old Wordpress Site
- My Blogging Engine
- In Response to “I'm Bowing Out” - Hack & Slash
- Keeping the RSS Fires Burning
- Plan for Complications - Tomb of Annihilation
- Behind the Screen
- Going Local
- My Procedure for Facilitating Open Table Gaming
- Burning Sanctuary - Session 1
- Burning Sanctuary - Session 0
- Out of the Abyss - Session #1
- An Upcoming Campaign Map with Tech Tomfoolery
- Divorce - A Personal Experience
- Torchbearer with the kids
- Observations of Dungeon World at Michiana Board Gamers
- A Father and Son Night of Marvel Heroic RPG
- Gaming Violence and Children
- And the Winner Is…
- So GM Burnout has Happened
- Cataloging Performance Art and other Ephemera
- A Bizarre Ritual of Mine
- Crippled by Knowledge
- At the Intersection of Work, Play, and Learning
- Make a Decision Already
- …And Finally, Bloodstone
- Just Arrived - A Boatload of Louie
- My Present Gaming Group
- A New Year's Eve Tradition - The One Shot
- 2011 In Review
- Bloodstone Observations
- Stealing Cthulhu by Graham Walmsley
- Family Role-Playing and Unexpected Events
- Interesting, Albeit Pointless Stats for My Blog
- Character Creation Session for Family Bulldogs Adventure
- Hewards Handy Haversack - GenCon Edition
- How to Protect Your Geeky Treasures - A Step By Step Guide
- Customer Service - Evil Hat Style - It is Fabulous