John Stilley john-science

Mapping a Village

Often, in the process of writing for fantasy, we need to create little towns and villages. I feel like these are rarely practical or realistic creations. But why not? There are so many resources to draw from. Let's look at some little villages, particularly old ones, and see what they look like.

Burg Frankenstein

This is a village so iconic it inspired one of the first horror / sci-fi novels. There is a creepy-ass castle over-looking a tiny village that winds along a little river in a deep valley cut through the mountains:

Google Maps

Linux-Friendly Roguelikes

The Mechanical Keyboard of My Dreams

ErgoDox EZ
Dactyl ErgoDox - search for "Dactyl"

Posts Etcetera

Proposal for Replacing the Robe of Augmentation

Step 1: Remove this robe

Step 2: Add an unrandart based on Quicksilver Dragon Scales

Why Dragon Scales?

Let's take stock of the kinds of unrandart armors we currently have. If you ignore what makes them unique, the base armour types are:

Hunting for a Cheap Robot.

It is 2020 and for some reason I don't have a robot cleaning up after me.

What gives? I'm lazy and want to future already.

My requirements:

Cheap. - Well, as cheap as I can get.
No spyware. - I don't want this thing to have wifi or phone home to it's parent corporation. I am it's parent.

Cython

Cython Gotchas
Replacing Cython with C++ - example

	digraph distros{
	rankdir="LR";
	node [color=lightgrey, fillcolor=lightgrey, shape=note]
	Ubuntu [color=purple];
	"Scientific Linux" [color=green];
	CentOS [color=Orange];
	Kali [color=CornflowerBlue];
	Raspbian [color=red];

	Linux -> Debian;

	FROM ubuntu:20.04

	RUN apt-get update && \
	apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y python3-pip python3.8-dev && \
	apt-get install vim && \
	apt-get install git

	// Log in to Reddit, open you comment page, and paste this into your Console. Done

	var $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),
	currentTime = 0,
	timeInterval = 500; // minimum time between deletes

	$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {
	var _this = $(this);
	currentTime = currentTime + Math.floor(Math.random() * timeInterval) + timeInterval;

	""" plot_my_weight.py

	This is a simple scatter-and-line plot of my body weight at various times. The challenge is that
	the data is very irregular. This program reads in a CSV of this form:

	datetime,weight(lbs),Steps,Meals,Calories,Run (km),anything,else...
	2010-02-18,165
	2010-02-25,156.6
	2010-03-11,154.4
	2022-06-22,159.1,10000,2,1500,5,...