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Trading Card Game Format Archetypes

Introduction

Like a deck of Poker playing cards, trading card game's (TCG's) can be enjoyed in multiple ways, by applying different rulesets (formats).

TCG formats come in two main varieties: Constructed and Limited.

Broadly speaking, players bring preassembled decks to Constructed events, whereas in Limited formats they assemble a fresh deck from a pool of cards.

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macOS Startup Items

macOS relies too much on applications to manage their own startup item configuration. Over time, this leads to vestigial entries building up in startup items.

Gather data on startup items

Both System Settings and launchctl stink at startup item management.

One of the key features lacking in macOS is GUI + CLI options to query startup items by the very name listed in the Login Items & Extensions pane. This overcomplicates basic cleanup operations, and makes it easier for malware to hide.

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Go Update Tool Dependencies

$ go get -u ./...
$ go mod download; go mod vendor; go mod tidy

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git checkout remote refs

$ git fetch [--all]
$ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<ref>

Where ref is a commit, tag, or branch.

Thereafter use ordinary git checkout commands to select between local branches.

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SemExit: Semantic Exit Codes for Command Line Interface Processes

MOTIVATION

Standardize Command Line Interface (CLI) program exit code semantics similar to Web response statuses, towards an ecosystem of more intuitive, scriptable, and CI/CD friendly terminal applications.

INTRODUCTION

Unlike modern REST apps, CLI program behavior has continued to vary in the extreme. Simply checking whether a child process succeeds vs. fails from the parent is often a complicated affair, involving tons of error handling logic specific to that particular child command, and all too often involving flaky stdout/stderr log parsing as well.

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Go Register Tools

Go tools with pinned versions can now be tracked with the go mod system.

$ go get -tool <package>

This adds tool dependency entries in go.mod. Then update the go mod cache:

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Lorcana Deckbuilding

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 60 cards †
• Maximum 2 colors
• Maximum 4 copies of each card that shares the exact title and subtitle name

RECOMMENDATIONS

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ComfyUI Safer UX

ComfyUI ignores traditional uses of the Ctrl+D hotkey, namely erasing text to the right of the cursor (Emacs, macOS); and favoriting bookmarks (Windows Web browsers). Pressing Ctrl+D in ComfyUI does neither of these things. Instead, ComfyUI instantly, irrecovably erases many settings and applies the default workflow.

For safety, this hotkey can be disabled:

Navigate to Settings -> Keybinding -> Comfy.LoadDefaultWorkflow -> (Trash can delete icon).

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How to Locate Commands

Feeling lost?

You can verify the location of commands, and distinguish between different types of commands (executable binaries and scripts vs. shell built-in commands vs. aliases) with a variety of analysis commands.

For common UNIX, esp. POSIX compliant shells like ash, bash, dash, ksh, posh, zsh and WLS, try:

• command -v <name>
• type

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macOS Allow Unsigned Applications

1. Run sudo spctl --master-disable.
2. Launch Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Security -> Allow applications from -> Anywhere.
3. Confirm the selection prompt.
4. Contact the application owner's (technical) support and request the application be published through the normal Mac App Store.