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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 24/09/2026

How can you not love Baseball?

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 22/09/2026

A small reminder that Colin from Accounts is pretty awesome. Was worried the third (and final) season wouldn't match up to my love of the first two after such a long break, but it continues to be one of the best comedies on television.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 20/09/2026

Robert Jackson Bennett is slowly creeping into my favorite Fantasy authors list. Most are good at characters, plot or world-building. He excels at all three. I like that he takes chances in his trilogies and doesn't rest on what made the last novel work.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 19/09/2026

Network continues to tell the future. youtu.be/yuBe93FMiJc?... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Ned Beatty's NETWORK speech-by Paddy Chayefsky

YouTube video by Gart Williams

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 17/09/2026

Cincinnati to St. Louis was pretty fun. Was tempted to swing under the arch.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 16/09/2026

I am a sucker for Humble Bundle ebooks. Book series about space lions? Sure... why not.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 15/09/2026

My flight recorder for MSFS now builds out visualizations for landing approaches and runway rolls. Here's a touch and go where I hit the centerline, then rotate back up into a climb. It polls at a higher Hz when you are under 1000ft, which gives me all the detail. This is pretty neat.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 15/09/2026

I laugh anytime I see something Vim or Linux related that's an "opinionated release". It's pretty much what every new user thinks they want with these tools after discovery. Eventually you realize the power is in the lack of presets, and instead in the ability to configure it yourself.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 14/09/2026

10 of 30 MLB ballparks. I did my last leg to Cincinnati in a Turbine Duke because getting across to the west coast would be too slow in a Comanche. I'm happy with the flight recorder, but am going to try to build visualizations for my landings, which are still shaky. davesnider.com/ballpark-tour

Flying over every MLB ballpark in MSFS - Dave Snider

Tracking a Microsoft Flight Simulator challenge, one leg at a time

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 13/09/2026

Had my first emergency on a MSFS flight from Detroit to Cleveland. Over Lake Erie I ran into power loss while in the clouds. I ran through my checklist, but turned on "cabin heat" rather than "carb heat" (i figured it out). Pretty cool that I can feed raw data into Claude to get a report.

Claude breakdown explaining carb heat issue

Graph showing a sharp decent during the carb heat issue.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 10/09/2026

I now have a robust playback system that includes wind-speed and fuel economy. I made horrible time on my flight to Ithaca and wanted to know why. Turns out I was in 20 kts of headwind the whole flight! Also added some climb, cruise and descend metrics. Next up will be measuring bouncy landings.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 09/09/2026

Built a small tracker to combine my MSFS flights into one map. It tracks my goal to fly over every MLB ballpark. Apparently I can always find something super nerdy to build. I'll put together a separate post on the actual build / scripting side later. davesnider.com/ballpark-tour

Flying over every MLB ballpark in MSFS - Dave Snider

Tracking a Microsoft Flight Simulator challenge, one leg at a time

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 04/09/2026

4/30 baseball stadiums flown over. Realized with this Mets / Yankees flight that I should get my scripts to auto mark photos taken on the map / chart. It would explain the elevation drops. I'll figure that out for next flight, should be easy since everything is timed.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 03/09/2026

This is pretty cool now. You can see a short flight I did in MS Flight Sim 2024 with real data coming in. The "checkered" spots are when I was flying through clouds, which somewhat explains the shakiness! I'll write up a blog post at some point: python script pushes sim data to website API.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 02/09/2026

Oh no. I'm getting into flight simming again. I tend to get bored without goals, so I think I'm going to do something simple like fly to / from every MLB ballpark in a GA aircraft (likely the Commache, since I already have it).

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 01/09/2026

I still can't get over the Colton Cowser game-saving catch from last night. This alternate angle shows just how insane it was. To get that high, hit the wall, and recover is pretty wild. I'm not sure I've seen one better.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 01/09/2026

Absolutely insane catch. So glad I stayed up to watch the O's tonight.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 28/08/2026

Zero Company seems pretty good after a couple hours. It wears X-Com on its sleeve, but the in between mission stuff is handled much better than something like Midnight Suns, which felt like homework. I wish "hit chance" percentages were subbed with damage bands. Always feels lame to miss.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 26/08/2026

I build Table Slayer without analytics. I don't even have Google set up. All I have is the raw database numbers (and user requests) to guide me. Noticed a spike in users and got excited. Bots! I finally have to add a captcha to signup.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 20/08/2026

Cell phone stores are the new DMV. Must be a rough gig.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 20/08/2026

As much as I’m disappointed in this game, I will watch and enjoy the Orioles as long as Kevin Brown is the announcer. He and Jim Palmer talking about how cereal should come with zip-lock bags is hilarious. “I pay $9 dollars for General Mills and it doesn’t come with a zip-lock bag.” (paraphrasing).

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 15/08/2026

Every once in awhile Table Slayer gets hit with a weird GPU rendering issue on Windows machines. I need to figure out a better way to test. Most of my E2E tests will run on a Linux system through CI.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 14/08/2026

Gotta love the mix of hostile consumer patterns mixed with dark pattern UX. This was from a Warner Brothers' email. It's OK though, nothing bad going on with that company anyway. This is why I have a NAS drive and physical media.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 14/08/2026

My Pixel 6 pro is nearing its end, with security updates ending in October. I guess I'll pick up a Pixel 11 to replace it. I was hoping that 5 years would have been enough time for a viable Linux option.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 12/08/2026

Captain's Chair is quickly becoming my favorite solo board game. Super satisfying with a huge decision space.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 08/08/2026

In Vegas for the Star Trek con. My room view is pretty cool as a baseball fan.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 04/08/2026

I figured it would be fun to document how I'm using AI right now so I can check back in next year to see what changes. I also wrote out some of my worries near the end. davesnider.com/how-i-use-ai

How I use AI in 2026 - Dave Snider

A summary of my last year experimenting

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 03/08/2026

Orioles news is pretty devastating for the fans. It'll take some time to get over I'm sure. Took the fam to Adley's first game at Oriole Park. Just rough.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 03/08/2026

Made a quick video to show off how the visualization on my site's activity feed works, and how I decided to build a Textualized based TUI for my bookmark management. My personal website is becoming so nerdy. davesnider.com/file/G0IWokP...

G0IWokP-GPozXJtf - Dave Snider

From the museum: screenshots and video from the career of Dave Snider.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 02/08/2026

Gotta love a theme manager built in Rust that decides it doesn't even want JavaScript in its example gallery. I'm migrating my theming from Flavours to Tinty.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 01/08/2026

My son and I finished up the "Fear No Evil" expansion for Marvel Champions by defeating Kingpin. I think it's probably my favorite expansion since "Sinister Motives". Daredevil and Echo are very combo-driven heroes, and the villain encounters introduce new mechanics, but remain easy to set up.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 31/07/2026

Apparently I've created a small hobby for myself of alerting companies that their online renewal flows are against the law (way to go Maryland!). I consider this the previous generation's equivalent of a "Letter to the Editor".

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 31/07/2026

Rewatched the Daniel Craig era Bond movies recently with my family. I put text reviews in my activity feed on my site if you're curious, but here's the star ratings: ★★★★★ Casino Royale ★★☆☆☆ Quantum of Solace ★★★★☆ Skyfall ★★☆☆☆ Spectre ★★★☆☆ No Time to Die

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 26/07/2026

@afkostka.bsky.social Have you done a story on the O's auto-renewal practices lately? It's pretty rough. Happy to provide a fan account of what's changed this past year. Feels relevant given some states like NY trying to ban these sorts of things.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 24/07/2026

Our Marvel Champions obsession is high enough that we buy and play the new expansions on day 1.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 22/07/2026

Saw "The Odyssey" and enjoyed it, but wasn't blown away like I normally am with most Nolan flicks. I liked the recent Ralph Fiennes' godless version "The Return" a little better, even though it was smaller in scope.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 21/07/2026

State of my table after the 11 year olds run off to eat lunch. They're off to Wave Echo Cave next.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 21/07/2026

Man. Orioles vs. Red Sox felt like playoff baseball in July.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 20/07/2026

The joy of seeing your house plants are still alive after returning from vacation.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 14/07/2026

Took the fam to Cooperstown. Kind of surprised how much we enjoyed it. Really well run museum.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 09/07/2026

Table Slayer now provides the ability to add polygon "fog rooms" that allow you to quickly toggle fog on and off in specific areas of your map.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 09/07/2026

Watching the latest season of X-Men 97 with my kid. It's pretty rad.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 06/07/2026

I finally have cracked Figma quality multiplayer responsiveness in Table Slayer. This took all day. Such a fun/hard project. Just when you think the problem is on the network side (lag), or the sync side (update clobbering), it's actually on the 3D rendering side. This was all three!

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 06/07/2026

Table Slayer now handles large maps in a more elegant fashion. It projects an outline of your viewable TV space in the editor (based on your TV size). Then you can pan around as you need.

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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 05/07/2026

During the Summer we force "i'm bored" time into our kids day so they aren't on a screen all day (exemption if they are creating things). Recently my son has been digging these game books. It's like a massive choose your own adventure, but with dice. archmagepress.com/collections/...

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Legendary Kingdoms

Greetings Adventurers! Welcome to Legendary Kingdoms, an epic series of choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks set in a sandbox fantasy world. Prepare for adventure in this huge open-world gamebook serie...