Bits of Galaxy

So, I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together an online space game. Inspiration comes from things like TradeWars 2002, Escape Velocity: Nova and FTL, with multiplayer in the theme of a MUD. Real-time, but a bit chill, maybe as much a shared experience as a ”game”. In particular, I’m aiming for the server API to be conducive to AI/ML agents running around exploring.

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No more Google ads

Got rid of Ads from the site; they were causing a huge slowdown and nobody ever clicked on them. So, the site should perform better. If I find a decent, free, and fast analytics service then I’ll toss Google Analytics as well.

So, if you want to support me, or just say thanks, or just like sending money to folks, I do have a Ko-Fi.

Dear Liberal government, your housing plan is bad

A perverse incentive is an inventive that has an unintended and undesirable result that is contrary to the intentions of its designers. The cobra effect is the most direct kind of perverse incentive, typically because the incentive unintentionally rewards people for making the issue worse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

The problem being addressed is a lack of access to housing for Canadian families. Recently, the average asking price for a house in Canada broke $800,000, with around 25 bidders for each house. Of those bidders, about 18 are families looking for a home, and the other 7 are investors looking for an asset that will generate revenue while appreciating indefinitely.

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Open-Source: Covidbot-Ontario

I built a # to post local numbers. In the process, I found Ontario Public Health’s data feeds and ended up building something much more generic and reusable than I initially intended. Aside from the very local hospitalization and ICU numbers from KHSC, the Ontario feeds can be filtered to be useful anywhere in the province.

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Happy Pride Month!

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It’s June again, Pride month.

It’s a time to celebrate; to celebrate ourselves and each other, the community we build, and the progress we’ve made.

It’s a time to remember; to remember the victims of hate, to remember those who came before us and fought for the rights we have today.

It’s a time to stand up; to stand shoulder to shoulder, to support one another. Stonewall was a riot! We stood up together, said “no more”, got loud, and set some shit on fire. Nothing comes easy, and the world hasn’t given us anything for free – change and progress take time and will.

There’s a lot going on these days, and we still have a long way to go. Canada has only recently banned conversion therapy; places like Texas and Florida have declared war on us and our children. Take the time to celebrate how far we’ve come, but never forget that we’re not done yet. We have more to fight for, but we have a community to stand together, support one another, and to love each other, and that counts for a lot.

iPad as a Dev Console, Part 1: SSH

I recently got an iPad to replace my venerable Huawei tablet, and I’ve been exploring how to use it for dev work.

I work mostly in on Linux, so my requirements are pretty modest:

  • ssh terminal
  • sftp for file management
  • editor with sftp
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MastoBot 0.1.0-2

I’ve published another prerelease of # to ; this prerelease expands coverage of the MastoBotAPI class and significantly improves method documentation coverage.

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MastoBot Documentation!

I’m bad at documentation, so in # I’m making a concerted effort to be mindful of it.

Enter tooling! I’m using with Pages and CI.

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