Can't get the software to work?
Stop Staring At It.
Often, there are two problems:
It's essential to stop staring (and hand-wringing) over the code and gather evidence.
This will allow you to challenge your faulty …
Can't get the software to work?
Rewrite it.
Seriously.
It's often faster to pick a new paradigm and start a rewrite than to bang your head against a wall.
Modern languages (like Python) don't require a lot of overhead or boilerplate to start again.
Can't get the object model …
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.
My observations:
Important
Here's an interesting group:
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.
more ...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 …
more ...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:
| Statements | Misses | Coverage |
| 2701 | 166 | 94% |
The OpenD6 tools have two extensive DSL's. These differ in a profound way:
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 …
more ...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
Once upon a time …
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.
History is my problem.
Some of this world-building and …
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. More important, I've got a pile of details for a fairly lengthy campaign.
This isn't …
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