Feeling quite sheveled and gruntled today.

Wait, after 15 years, is someone actually gonna finish my zvm?? 🙏🏼

ironically, I find that hard mode is actually easier for me than regular mode. 😆

Yes, thanks you!

Discovery 1: Wordle has a “hard mode” toggle switch you can activate.

Discovery 2: I’ve already been playing Wordle that way for months. 😳

Feeling cortisol-tastic

久しぶり！

From Live figure drawing meetup today

iPad Procreate, textures

Woo, 9 copies of my D&D adventure sold in the first two weeks... so you could say things are getting pretty serious! 😆 Seriously, though -- if you play it, please leave a review and feedback on drivethrurpg!

Yesterday’s successful project: write my first Discord chatbot, running on my MacBook. Connected it a llama3 LLM also running on my MacBook. Now my friends and I can all chat with whatever ridiculous personality I spin up in the LLM. 😂

“Run your meeting like a Dungeon Master”

social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2...

A huge thanks to the Storytelling Collective (storytellingcollective.com); I used their self-guided 'Write Your First Adventure' workshop!

Mandatory Inn-spection - Ben Collins-Sussman | DriveThruRPG.com After weaving through bustling pedestrians and horse-carts, you spy a unique building packed between houses and shops: a

After a few months of writing, and illustrating -- I finally published my first tiny work of fiction! It's a short, comedic D&D adventure that you can now get at the link below. After spending my life writing technical manuals, this was a real joy to work on!
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/4858...

It’s a wacky sitcom one-shot. About to publish on dmsguild 😅

A house with a tree growing out of the center.

Final cover of my D&D adventure.

About 5 months into sabbatical! Still doing lots of creative work, connecting with family, and some occasional job interviews too. Meanwhile, here's a blog post on all my recent explorations with AI... I'm really enjoying all the discovery.

social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2...

Digital sketch of a medieval elven woman holding a large egg

Another NPC Iin the adventure I’m writing. #art

The Uruk-Hiiiiiii!

Yeah, I used some gnomish art references for inspiration as I worked. They're like elves, I guess, but with squashed features?

First attempt at drawing a fantasy portait ... middle-aged gnome.

RPG Writer Workshop The RPG Writer Workshop by the Storytelling Collective is an online learning program with courses, workshops, and resources for aspiring tabletop roleplaying game (ttRPG) creators!

www.storytellingcollective.com/pages/rpg-wr...

After 44 years of playing D&D, I'm close to publishing my first adventure, thanks to a great self-guided workshop course. One of the coolest things I've learned is how to create a properly-tagged "accessible" PDF for screen-readers, and I'm lucky to have friends who can test this for me.

picture of 'Norrrrrrrm!' from Cheers TV show

Well it finally happened: after 3 months of working in the same coffee shop every other morning, today the barista greeted me by name when I walked in.

Rant: there's still no way to buy an e-book and support my local indie bookstore.

For mail-order books, bookshop.org replaces Amazon delivery. For audiobooks, Libro.fm replaces Audible.

But if I want an e-book for my e-reader? No solution. I'm forced to either give money to Amazon or B&N. 😤

Super thrilled with the move. There's nothing wrong with Notion, but it seems optimized for group collaboration (which I'm not doing), and Obsidian more optimized for personal note-taking (which is all I do.)

For a decade, I stored hundreds of private notes in OneNote. I migrated everything to Notion about 3 months ago, and now I've migrated them all again to Obsidian. I think I'm a stereotype at this point.

For a decade, I stored hundreds of private notes in OneNote. I migrated everything to Notion about 3 months ago, and now I've migrated them all again to Obsidian. I think I'm a stereotype at this point.

Making a new gpg key, since my old one was 1024-bit from 1998. This is the best interactive dialogue question ever. Are these REALLY the terms?

Please select which elliptic curve you want:
(1) Curve 25519 *default*
(4) NIST P-384
(6) Brainpool P-256

Sabbatical status update!
social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2...