A Guide To Rounding Corners and Edges in Tinkercad.
Alternately, how I spent way too much time modeling a dice tray.
Rounding corners in Tinkercad is way more trouble than it ought to be. It’s not actually hard, it’s just really time consuming and requires a lot of steps. Once you wrap your head around the general approach you’ll be able to round anything.
The Kinesis Advantage 360 Pro feels great. The ergonomics are better than the Advantage 2. The Bluetooth is buggy. The on/off switches are terrible. The mechanism for resetting it is worse than terrible. I’m still irked that the wrist wrests weren’t included at that price, and I suspect the Mo Ergo Glove80 is going to be an equal, or even better choice.
A recent episode of the Internet Office Hours: Role-Playing Games podcast was discussing the question of Skill Checks in Tabletop Role Playing Games (TTRPGs) and if they were actually needed. In designing my game I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this, and I thought I’d share my perspective.
A coding methodology for personal projects and proof of concepts.
There is a time and place for following “best practices” as a developer. It is not “always”.
Best practices should be followed when…
I’ve been mostly avoiding GraphQL and watching from the sidelines. I’d been forming an opinion but wanted to actually understand it a bit better before really deciding.
A friend asked what was notable about Pathfinder 2nd Edition in comparison to D&D 5th Edition.
It’s important for all knowledge workers to have a Personal Knowledge Management System (PKM). That doesn’t mean you need a fancy tool, or a complex process. Sometimes, the “stupid simple” solution is the best one.
To that end, I wanted to talk through my wife’s system. It’s an important example because her choice to specifically not use any of the fancy purpose built tools has resulted in a better solution for her needs.
“Personal Knowledge Management” (PKM) feels like a lot of “bullshit” to many people. In this, I will speak to the idea that PKM isn’t bullshit. It’s just that other people’s ways of managing knowledge, just aren’t designed for your brain. They may sound like bullshit, but if it’s working for it’s creator, it’s totally valid.
A group calling itself “Mask Group” has purchased three of the largest mastodon instances.
Mastodon users, especially people on those servers, should be very concerned.
There are some things you need to consider about mastodon to understand why this is very concerning.
This means that by buying a large mastodon instance you are signing up for a very large ongoing cost in a system whose current state is adverse to profit generation for the owners. If we assume the purchasers are not complete idiots there are 2 solutions to this problem.
“Hey!” started as an Interruption Tracker, and now supports Time Tracking too. It has been through 3 iterations: Chicken Scheme, Crystal, and now Raku. This post is a high-level developer’s diary of what I wrote, why I rewrote it, and what I learned along the way.
