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8 months ago

Gaming + Roleplaying

GM Advice: Session Zero Hey everyone, Today's GM advice is all about the pre-game, specifically the one session that can make or break a campaign before it even starts: Session Zero . It is one of…

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12 months ago

The Library Next to the kitchen, the dining room, the living room, the family room, the back veranda, the side veranda, the courtyard, the foyer, the receiving room

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11 days ago

Wednesday Walk and Lap Swimming There’s something about swimming lanes that feels… territorial. Not in an aggressive way, just in that quiet, personal, this‑is‑my‑spot kind of way. The second lane from the…

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8 months ago

Synergy Builders

A Simple Way to Check for Internet Connectivity in Scripts Hey everyone, I run a lot of scripts via cron , even on my laptop, but my laptop isn't always connected to the internet. This can cause issues for scripts that need an…

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8 months ago

Synergy Builders

Is it Random? A Deeper Dive into Fairness and Entropy Hey everyone, After my last post about the mathematical fairness of the Ultimate Dice Roller , I got some excellent feedback. The gist of it was that a normal distribution…

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8 months ago

Synergy Builders

Is the Ultimate Dice Roller _Mathematically_ Fair? Hey everyone, The other day, @ecoinstant posed an excellent question about the Ultimate Dice Roller : we know it's provably fair , but is it mathematically fair …

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9 months ago

Synergy Builders

Preliminary Investigation: Finally, the Real Culprits Hey everyone, My investigation into the high CPU usage on the "moon" server has been a process of refining the data to get a clear answer. After first identifying python3…

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9 months ago

Synergy Builders

How I Build Software Quickly (My Take) Hey everyone, I've been asked a few times how I manage to get so many different projects and tools built so quickly. It’s a great question, and I was inspired to write about it…

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9 months ago

Synergy Builders

The Hidden Iceberg: Why Does Software Take So Long? Hey everyone, I was asked almost this very question yesterday: "What takes so long in the dev world?" It's a perfectly fair question, especially when a feature seems simple on…

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9 months ago

Synergy Builders

A Learning Experience: From OpenSSL to a Python Certificate Generator Hey everyone, A recent announcement from Let's Encrypt about issuing their first certificate for an IP address sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. For some reason, I had…

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