Sunday, August 05, 2018
Customization is a large part of the culture surrounding EDH, a format of Magic the Gathering where players build a deck around a legendary creature. People spend thousands of dollars procuring special versions of cards for their deck, getting alterations painted on them, and getting them signed by the card’s artist. There’s a popular website for housing player’s decklists called Tapped Out. People here go hog-wild customizing their profile pages and deck lists, usually resulting in an experience reminiscient of Myspace circa 2005. One user, however, posted some cool images of scattered cards that he took with his camera and used them as banners on his deck page. I thought it was neat, well executed, and then forgot about it for several years.
Monday, May 01, 2017
I play a lot of Magic the Gathering. I collect the cards, play the game, covet pieces of artwork, and have tattoos of it. Needless to say, I’m unhealthily obsessed with the game, and it’s been a part of my life for almost two decades now. I’m fortunate to have a group of friends who I play with regularly. One day, two summers ago, my friend and I decided to run a crazy idea: a special kind of format where a group of eight of us would draft cards from the entire available pool. We were inspired by Sheldon’s Rotisserie Draft League, but knew that getting people together to do the whole thing in person wasn’t going to happen.
Friday, February 05, 2016
Lately I’ve found myself with two types of tasks at work: building out forms and writing a lot of javaScript (sometimes both at once). Earlier this week, while I was knee-deep in getting some functionality to work, I ran across something that reminded me of the old text-adventure games or MUDs. I can’t for the life of me remember what triggered the thought, but the end result was, “I bet I could build a text adventure in javaScript.”
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
After a long hiatus from regularly publishing content on my site, I finally felt it was time to leap back in the world of blogging. My previous setup relied on Blogger as the CMS for blogging, and I wanted to move away from it. I looked at some alternatives, but most felt too cumbersome for the type of content I wanted to author (I’m looking at you, Wordpress). Too much overhead to deal with. Then I stumbled on a strange and wonderful thing called Jekyll.