shib71 · HackerTrans

8 months agodiscuss

Yes, I could see a lot of GMs being interested in plug in and go product that fills that niche. Implementing the right feature set is challenging, as existing dedicated virtual tabletops have already shown. But something like a simple Owlbear Rodeo extension that adds basic miniature recognition might be all we need.

shib71

9 months agodiscuss

Real world example of:

    Patient: Doc, it hurts when I do this.
    Doctor: Then stop doing that.

shib71

10 months agodiscuss

My first thought was that it would be explaining Quicksort using an Ikea warehouse as a metaphor, to show how different algorithms suit different constraints.

As for the actual Ikea-style instruction pamphlet... I suspect that making it was very helpful for the author. But I don't think the result would have helped me as a novice. It took some work for me to understand the diagram, and I've used Quicksort.

shib71

3 years agodiscuss

I wanted a Markdown notes app that I could access over the internet, and stored files in a files-on-s3 structure that would makes sense if I accessed it directly and would be stupidly simple to backup/restore.

Ended up with an Amplify app that had basic login, file upload with image thumnbnails, indexing of frontmatter, some query macros to list pages matching specific criteria, autocomplete for frontmatter and macros, and ability to make specific pages public if I want to. Apart from login, it only uses direct S3 calls, so I'm effectively only paying for S3 storage costs.

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