After many months of effort, I have now launched Glimmer 0.1.0.
Glimmer is a design system and collection of components for Yew applications in Rust. I developed this as part of the Visions VTT, and have now separated it out for independent publication.
Last weekend, I ran a heist in the Wildsea. Wildsea is a game that was new to all of us, so while we had read the books, we were going in with very open expectations.
As the Firefly (the GM for Wildsea) for this session, and with us intending for the game to be a one-shot, I applied many of my design principles for one-shots, however I also faced several challenges. In this article, I’m going to present the scenario in its basic mechanical form, the challenges that I faced when designing a scenario for this system, and an action report from the scenario.
Since the spectacular photos of aurora from 2003, I have held a constant, enduring, desire to see the aurora myself.
Finally, in October of 2024, I finally got the chance. I drove out to a darker area near Providence, and found a bridge where many other people had the same idea. Finding a place to park and pull out my camera, I found a lot of other people who had already set up to take pictures from the bridge.
Today, I want to tell you a story of diagnostics, and a solution to a bug that made me understand a bit more about how electricity works.
I had a strand of individually addressible LEDs which unexpectedly stopped working. As I moved from breadboard with jumper cables to a soldered circuit board, the color patterns that I had programmed into the LEDs were suddenly replaced with solid white at maximum brightness.
I ran across this in Maryland in August of 2024. The particular city I was visiting had a beautiful riverwalk with several footbridges across it. This clock was attached to the side of one of those footbridges.
