I've been subjected to two (obvious) examples of slopware apps. I've read dozens and dozens of conference submissions that appeared to be slopware. I have some observations.

Here's an interesting group:

https://handcraftedcode.org

I'm an "absolutely no LLM" bigot. I need to do the thinking. I like to do the fiddly, tedious hard parts. I always have liked it.

I have (finally) released a usable DSL for OpenD6 spells and characters.

See the OpenD6 tag for a bunch of related content.

See https://github.com/slott56/opend6-tools for the final product.

I doubt there will ever be a PyPI package. For the few who want to use these tools …

See the OpenD6 tag for a bunch of related content. I have a DSL for OpenD6 spells and OpenD6 characters. At this moment, the test suite statistics are these:

Lets look at my favorite OO-Design problem domain: card games.

We'll compare the design of two games: Cribbage and Canasta.

Why? Because they have three common abstractions: cards, hands, and a score.

Overall the players are dealt cards, form hands, and at some point, accumulate a score. Of course, all …

What does the AI bubble mean? It means software has no intrinsic value. Since software is worthless, creating good software is a waste of effort.

This is a conclusion of reached from observing the software industry for a half-century

See Writing Project -- perhaps a bad idea. I'm trying to dig around in my old notes to pull together a "World Book" with a fantasy setting I think has a lot of good gaming opportunities. I have a problem, though.