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I'd stopped making blog posts for tasting menus because it's a lot of work, but I want to get back to that. Here's my first tasting menu of 2024: the end-of-winter fare at Atelier in Lincoln Square.

Once upon a time, in an internet of ages long past, people started getting weird messages on AIM...

My biggest Astro project went live last Friday, so I thought I'd write a bit about using it.

The tl;dr is "astro is pretty okay for making a websight".

I migrated off of WordPress.com for my blog hosting, to my own blogging software. All the important URLs should remain the same. It looks a bit nicer now, and I've got some other functionality running through here.

For the last 13 months, I have been operating a Mastodon (and later, glitch-soc) server. I’ve learned a lot in that time about both Mastodon (the software) and the fediverse as a whole.

There is a lot of Nuance involved, so I wanted to write everything I know down. This post will move seamlessly between social & technical matters because they each shape the other.

Gravis posted a wild ride tearing into the Phoenix Hyperspace dual-booty netbook OS over on cohost. Go read it. It’s good.

I had to visit SF for a professional event at the Moscone center. I stayed in the Mission district. There wasn’t a ton of time to explore the city, but here’s what I did find time for!

Since the One D&D playtest started, redditors have been calling out about the sky falling because the playtest material had not been released under the Open Game License (OGL).

People pointed out that none of the other Unearthed Arcana playtest material has been released under the OGL, but without WotC saying anything about their intention, nobody really knew what the licensing for OneDnD would be.

Yesterday, they posted on the DnD Beyond forms about their intentions for One D&D’s licensing model. I have some thoughts.

We finally made it to Oriole tonight...

Mastodon, an ActivityPub implementation picking up most of the slack from Twitter, can use any S3-compatible object store for user-uploaded images/videos and caching media from other servers.