Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Frames Of Reference- Chapter 6

    Dark ideas arise from dark situations. Dangerous ideas, notions that under other conditions wouldn’t infest the cerebrum, make themselves known in the form of an unrelenting scourge. My eyes have fogged over and my sinuses are full, and I’m sitting on the train tracks with a sedative in my left hand, right leg crossed over the left to the extent that my circulation is lost. All tingly, butterflies in the stomach, unable to process what I saw today, or what I should do next.

  • Life unloaded

    I generally try to avoid talking about the thing I'm currently trying to do with my gemlog, except as an occasional aside, since it feels too easy. But I've been having a low-energy day today and I could use an easy topic to write about.

    Slightly before New Year's I decided that I wanted to dedicate some time every day for 100 days to write something. This was, in fact, what I thought the 100 days to offload challenge was. It turns out they don't actually expect you to write every single day--just to write 100 pieces over the course of a year. But writing every single day turned out to work really well for me, and so I'm sticking with it.

  • 🔤SpellBinding — ABCDIRY Wordo: MAUVE

  • Re: Returning to Rappan Athuk

    This was such a great essay. I don’t have anything to add to it or argue against it, I just wanna celebrate it.

    I usually say that OSR-style prep can be a match made in heaven for the char-op of heavy systems since that kind of prep makes the character building decisions really matter. And that sort of prep is also a good match for rules light since the game is still interesting even without a lot of answers on the character sheet. It's just better for both.

• Technology and Free Software

  • From `babylon5.buetow.org` to `*.buetow.cloud`

    Recently, my employer sent me to a week-long AWS course. After the course, there wasn't any hands-on project I could dive into immediately, so I moved parts of my personal infrastructure to AWS to level up a bit through practical hands-on.

    So, I migrated all of my Docker-based self-hosted services to AWS. Usually, I am not a big fan of big cloud providers and instead use smaller hosters or indie providers and self-made solutions. However, I also must go with the times and try out technologies currently hot on the job market. I don't want to become the old man who yells at cloud :D

  • Sandbox Generator by Atelier Clandestin

    I really like this hexcrawl sandbox generator. It's very approachable, clearly written, and straight forward — something that will be easy to use. It describes a complete procedure for generating a sandbox, using lots of dice rolling and tables. It is system neutral, having no stats for anything, expecting you to get that from your specific system's lists of opponents. It also assumes that you want dungeons (and megadungeons) in your hexcrawl. It includes several examples showing how it works, including an example of generating a megadungeon that shows how multiple levels are constructed and linked together and how to generate an individual level.

  • My Copy of Knock #4 Arrived!

    The inside of the dust jacket is an adventure inspired by the module B4 The Lost City, The Lost City Sandbox.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Announcing the Skylab Misfin Client

      Over the past week and a half I've been simultaneously learning Go and writing a new Misfin client with a gemini frontend.

    • Skylab Misfin Client

      Skylab is a misfin client with a gemini frontend and an interface for sending and receiving misfin messages using any gemini client.

      It is named after the first space station launched and operated by NASA, which was one of the space programs MSFN was built to support.

  • Programming

    • Keeping State

      One may be mostly done with a game when the realization hits that one might need a title screen and maybe some other not-part-of-the game (a "write a game in seven days challenge" is a bad time to learn these sorts of things). Probably you can bolt on something if-won show-the-win-screen or something like that? A better plan might be to have different states and the means to switch between them. Maybe you learned something about finite state machines that I didn't whilst getting that B.S. in Geology? Anyways, this can simplify the game loop at the cost of shoving everything off elsewhere.

    • uhhhhh i kinda forgot on friday, but hey, im doing it now :)

      Cool update now i guess, me and my friend joined a month long game jam... on the last 5 days, which is... somewhat limiting, but it's been fun. We're using the Godot game engine, just because of time wise it would be easier to already have a whole game engine. Godot is probably my favorite, main stream? engine (out of the big 3 godot, unity, unreal) i kinda like lower level stuff like raylib and bevy. But onto the gamejam, it's the bossrush game jam, and the game we've been making is a sort of high speed, well bossrush.