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A funny thing happened on the way to the module…
Back before NaNiWriMo, I started work on a writing assistance plugin based on VS Code/Codium and started integrating that with Dungeons and Markdown – another VS Code plugin that makes use of Homebrewery. I let the work sit after November because, well, I’m an idiot. I got distracted and haven’t come back to it yet.…
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And Progress!
In my last post I outlined a writing tool I wanted to build by extending VSCode. As of this point I have a pretty functional baseline that I’m 99% happy with. As a bonus, in the past few days I discovered someone had already had the same idea with adapting Homebrewery as a VS Code…
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A new project
Any time I sit down and attempt to write on a game project – old or new – I run into what I call an organizational dysfunction. Where to start? Where to put things? Dumping into Word/LibreOffice/KWord/Wordstar ( okay, maybe not Wordstar ) doesn’t hack it after a point. I do a lot of work…
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Back in the Saddle
When we left off last I was stuck in two places, not really sure where I wanted to tack off to next. The first was trying to beat a memory leak into place with the app and the second was getting into the hoary mess of the pdf metadata database. Naturally, I chickened out and…
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Problem Restatement
TL;DWR If you’re not a long-time Tabletop gamer with a collection of PDFs, this probably isn’t for you. I started in digital game formats pretty early. Not early, early. There were probably files up on Sunet before I could dress myself – but still, fairly early. I was starting to try to publish in the…
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Okay, so do it…
Tally Ho! It is all well and good to talk about this, but it came time to do something. And pick up a new framework along the way. Anyone who has known me for a while and had any talks about code knows I’ve always had some weird disconnect with GUI programming. There’s some weird…
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Metadata Storage
The Story So Far In looking over the last post it becomes clear that one of the problems with this kind of set up is labor. One or two files at a time? Sure. But 50 Gb? Never happen. This is where we need to leverage other data sources. Anyone who spent any time converting…
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Collection Labeling
In my last post, I broke up what I feel are the major issues with organizing a PDF/E-Book collection (that lives outside an ecosystem such as Amazon books) into three categories. The first is labeling. Labeling is all about identifying specific ( such as the title ) and general ( such as its genre )…
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Revenge of the Brane: Unfinished Projects
Problem One of my irregular chores is attempting to sort/filter/categorize the PDFs I’ve accumulated over time into something better than a rolling mess. I’m sitting at a somewhat sizable 31Gb and around 4500 files in just over 20 years of purchases, downloaded demos, and my own files – and that’s excluding novels, non-fiction, and comics.…
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One Month Later…
Nothing, really. Constant sickness in the household has ground nearly every activity to a halt. Such suckage.
Got any book recommendations?