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 player's 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.

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 …

I'm trying to push the envelope in my writing.

I write a fair amount of non-fiction. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4537706.Steven_F_Lott. This is a comfortable spot for me.

I've got some self-published titles:

• Pivot to Python: A Guide for Professionals and skilled beginners
• Unlearning SQL: “When your …

When playing a game using D6 -- and only D6 -- we're sometimes confronted with a need to make a selection from equiprobable items.

For example, pick a random day of the week: 7 choices, but only 6 sides to a die.

What can we do?

How can we select fairly among …

See https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json.

This content is human-generated. All the mistakes are mine, without the taint of AI slop.

I've added the needed human.json, and can update it if you want me to vouch for your content, also.