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Blog Posts

  1. Lake Effect Snow

    A winter poem celebrating snow.

  2. That Time In Between

    On that sacred time during winter dark.

  3. Serializing Somewhat Large Emacs Alists

    Creating a bespoke process to dump and load data in manageable chunks.

  4. Game Procedures as Bridges from Potential to Actual

    Considering the great utility of procedures and tables as a means of developing the fictive world, passing from potential to actual.

  5. Forged From the Worst: Session 5

    In which the Knights learn of a blood feud and yet another Myth plaguing the realm.

  6. Forged from the Worst: Session 4

    In which Sir Weydlyn confronts his fear and makes a solemn promise to Beatrice.

  7. Mythic Bastionland Map Play Aid Emacs Package

    Generating the canonical game map while encapsulating its state and revealing information through functions that interrogate the map. That is, I the player can ask Emacs to answer questions about the campaign map that a referee would know.

  8. Forged from the Worst: Session 3

    In which Sir Weydlyn continues his trek towards the castle, learning of a fate perhaps worse than death.

  9. Extending Core Emacs Bookmark Package

    Revisiting yesterday’s implementation and refactoring towards a bookmark implementation.

  10. Forged from the Worst: Session 2

    In which hard-lessons are learned after witholding information.