A small patch for the shared player view: more reliable background sharing, clock-independent updates and timing, and dead creatures below the turn order.

I can give Nimble new classification tasks without retraining it. I use Ollama to run it locally, without a subscription or per-request bill.

I replaced paper initiative notes with OpenFray and a player-facing tablet. Here’s how shared turn order, effects, and the game log helped speed up fights.

The real Italian carbonara — eggs, pecorino, guanciale, pepper. No cream, no onions, no shortcuts. Learn the authentic method, plus the swaps that still work.

A fast, browser-based combat console for Game Masters running DnD 5e.

Build a DnD encounter around your party, check its estimated difficulty, save it for game night, and share the creature lineup with another Game Master.

I used to rely on players to remind me which spells were still running and who they affected. OpenFray keeps that part of the fight on the board.

A fair dice roller and a rigged one produce numbers that look exactly the same. After a night of zombies that would not die, I built one that shows its work.

Medium Construct, Neutral Evil. Challenge 7. Shared by OpenFray.

Save a fight and pick it up next session, prep the next one early, and publish an encounter or a creature to a link anyone can open. Compatible with 5.5e and 5e.

shotlist opens your running site, drives it to the state you describe, clips a region, draws the callouts, and writes the image where you want it. Each screenshot is a YAML file.

Sixty-seven original creatures for Dungeons and Dragons 5e: sentient vegetables across three stages of growth, the ecology around them, and the thing they all grew from. Free to read, and built into t...

Roll dice over HTTP. Rollful parses a dice formula, rolls each die through a CSPRNG, and returns every die it rolled. Powered by the OpenDice npm package.

Liking a site is not the same as loving it. Why I left the WordPress Site Editor for Astro and Markdown, what it cost, and what the site runs on now.

A fast, browser-based combat console for Game Masters running DnD 5e.

Push code to GitHub with no license file and it isn’t really open source — just visible. Choosing one feels like a legal maze, but it matters.

I built shotlist because I knew I'd never keep docs screenshots up to date by hand. Each annotated shot becomes a YAML recipe you run instead of redo.

OpenFray is a free, open-source combat console for running encounters in the world's oldest tabletop roleplaying game. Compatible with 5.5e and 5e: initiative, creature resources, conditions, group sa...

Roll dice over HTTP. Rollful parses a dice formula, rolls each die through a CSPRNG, and returns every die it rolled. Powered by the OpenDice npm package.

GPUs are crucial for AI due to their ability to perform parallel calculations, surpassing CPUs in matrix math efficiency.

A fictional police station I haven't visited in years. I knew exactly where to go. On grief, place-memory, and the buildings games build in your head.

I walked into a police station that doesn't exist and knew exactly where to go.

The real Italian carbonara — eggs, pecorino, guanciale, pepper. No cream, no onions, no shortcuts. Learn the authentic method, plus the swaps that still work.

came back from sabbatical, opened Claude, and built for 18 hours a day. The work looked productive. Then I noticed AI was setting the rhythm.

Quick Summary I came back from sabbatical and started building with AI so intensely that the tool began setting the rhythm of my days. The problem was not that AI was useless. It was useful in exactly the way my brain likes: fast feedback, low friction, and constant novelty. The dopamine was not really in the code. It was in the loop: ask, see, fix, ship, repeat.

Caring doesn’t always come naturally. How I learned to practice empathy and curiosity, not as emotions, but as disciplines that make better leadership possible.

Quick Summary Curiosity can be practiced intentionally, even when it doesn’t come naturally. Empathy is often a learned behavior, not just a feeling, and can start by "faking" it well. Systems and small structures help keep you caring and curious when your emotions are quiet. Detachment can be a strength when it protects your energy while still letting you show up for others.

This is a small text-to-speech tool that you can use for anything you'd like, entirely free of charge. Paste text in the box, pick a voice, and click Generate .

Learn how to balance speed and design on your WordPress site, improve Core Web Vitals, and know when visuals are worth the performance cost.

WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 is on the way and introduces major developer-focused updates, including the always-iframed post editor, viewport-based block visibility, per-block custom CSS, expanded Gutenberg UI components, and new AI and CLI tools. Explore what’s coming.

Using AI with ADHD to reduce decision friction when choosing games, focusing on mood, cognitive load, and fit instead of recommendations.

How I built a simple mental ADHD planner to manage focus, avoid burnout, and blog in a way that fits my brain.

Machine-learning curves look confident until speedrunners change the game underneath them. MediEvil shows why “AI as oracle” fails.

What is a web developer? A pre-AI learning story with honest advice on skills, timelines, jobs, and using AI without skipping real understanding.

Team building activities that actually upskill: three funny games that build communication, listening, and calm teamwork—without forced fun.

Demystify web hosting with a fun landlord-and-apartment analogy: domains, DNS, shared hosting vs VPS vs dedicated, and managed WordPress hosting - so you finally understand where your website “lives” ...

Learn how time off for leaders can be planned, handed over, and used as a stress test for trust, ownership, and culture — without everything falling apart.

Wondering what to use for different website ideas? I walk through 10 types of websites and share the tools I’d pick for each.

Learn how I built a 3D printing cost calculator with a tiny neural network to predict resin consumption and automate my resin business.

Leading with ADHD means building systems you can trust. Here’s how I use simple tools for ADHD, from calendars to AI notes, to stay reliable at work.

Wondering what to use for different website ideas? I walk through 10 types of websites and share the tools I’d pick for each.

Master effective feedback with a simple framework of facts, feelings, and curiosity that reduces defensiveness and builds psychologically safe, high trust teams.

From Dungeons & Dragons to Dead by Daylight, discover how games quietly build real leadership skills in communication, empathy, trust, and teamwork.