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Idiomdrottning

Programs

The Terminal and the Shell

Three Different Kinds of Commands

A new operator and data structure for adding dice

Fast probability calculation for three tiers of die result

Writing Inkscape word balloons in Emacs

Quick script for stacking images into an .ora

Bouncing ball brush

Deferring Email with Notmuch and Emacs

A “Junk” tag in DWM

No, you hang up!

Reading books via PDF on desktop

Converting TLDR to man pages

Hardlinks from a Git repo

In praise of SXML's @-marker

README file → blog post

xj — HTML to JSON

Curling up inside my private bash pipes

Adding gemini urls to Pleroma

Line Moving Semantics

emv — emacs aware CLI mv

A mnemonic for caddar, cadadr and similar

numeronym-at-point

I kinda hate enums

Offset Indexing

blankbetweenlinks

Bad Language Contempt

Gemini for Pandoc

Named Let → Fold

Skillnaden mellan Matrix och XMPP

fantastic-ret for org-mode

mdna — a branch of Molly Brown

git clone yadda.yadda/yadda; cd yadda

mg — Muine-style Grep

A fold is a map

I Want a New Folksonomy

My XML sunk cost

How to put an end to Magit and its wonderful popups

CSS — Back to Basics

Side effects may include

Runaway JavaScript Spec

from dead+space

Keyboard Saga, pt 3

unzip is applied zip

Buoys in the Harbor

define-ir-syntax

a call-with-current-continuation is a simple thing

A paredit pro tip

bind is all right

Assorted Embarrassment

Blunders and kludges

Scheme Refactoring Catalog

My current Atreus layout (work in progress)

On top of Emacs' god-mode

Re: SV: Re: SV: Re: SV: Your misbehaved email

Deliberate Usability Obstacles

Zero-width spaces

weather-checker

The Empty Truth

Extend the language

Automatically make unit tests

Code-walking with call-tables

call-vector and call-string

Can you slice it, Artoo?

call-table-generics

The fanciest define of all time

The fanciest define of all time

Naming philosophy (for Lisp stuff)

Getting used to the fanciest define of all time

Language grab-bag, chapter 1

Clojure-like destructuring in brev

call table literals

Whitespace philosophy (for Lisp stuff)

When worse got better

Scheme, if you already know how to program other stuff

Separating schema from selection

Bad Emacs defaults

Gemini Ain't Broke

Wrapping and raising

Azorius vs Simic at the compiler

User/Dev dialectics in FOSS

Out of the box vs Do it yourself

Clojure namespaces

The Inliniac Goes to Town

Changing inflexible code

Matrix and its bridges

Treasure Jukebox

Against Pinocchio

LaTeX, Lout, ConTeXt

The worst things about iPad OS

Types are useful

You can tell I really really wanna complain about it but I'm not gonna

Trivial Patents

newline1 and skip1

A conditionally transforming combinator

Back panel settings

Lambda, the Ultimate Copilot

Type-Driven Development

How to host git repos

Good book, bad language

Romancing Sisyphus' Stone

A problem with Guile's defmacro

Re: Thoughts on RSS

Talking about my generation

Four short-term wishes for fedi

Call-tables and Medea

How the Lenia evolver works

When an AI researcher didn't research AI

Why it's OK that PGP sucks

Record destructuring with brev

How the repos on this site work

Tools vs standards

define-er-syntax*

Unix filters on region

Sloppy tree accessors

The painless way to multiple values on Scheme

Detach rcirc channel to soju

WYSIWYG vs markup

Email Netiquette

YAML vs StrictYAML

Font size on the Web

A proposed package alert system

An SVG path data library for Chicken Scheme

Matchable's custom destructing

Everyone, learn how to code

A simple parser

geminih — Not Invented Here gemtext to SXML

The life-changing magic of git

The diminishing inconveniences of contributing to GitHub projects

The fanciest define of all time gets even more awesome

Simple Haskell examples expressed in brev

Federation and forges

“Hey” post mortem and a new life for email

The unbearable quirkiness of Linux group permissions

An adapter between irregex and ropes

A glex/acetone example

In defense of ReStructuredText

The IRC client optimized for creepers

RFC 2646's Format=Flowed and inline quoting

Why it's bad that the web is so feature-rich

Stray Bridge Musings

Butlerian Jihad

go install a fork

Emacs undo and me

Emphasis vs Italics

def-briefly-mode

M-q in visual-line-mode

Gemini vs Web Semantics

Trailing slashes on rsync paths

Threadiverse vs mailing lists

Our current FOSS dystopia

How to reply to Lemmy posts from Mastodon

Usenet had to die

Recensioner

Sandra skriver om skivor, januari 2015

Recension av första halvan av Deep Carbon Observatory

Ending Spoilers: The Brothers Lionheart and The Good Place

GURPS, hate it or love it?

Skillnaden mellan Matrix och XMPP

Atreus keyboard review

My current Atreus layout (work in progress)

I only listen to sad, sad songs

Text-TV blir dålig

When the sequel makes the original worse

Atreus Saga, part seven!

Breaking Things at Work

When worse got better

Why D&D over other RPGs?

Bad Emacs defaults

When the Galaxy got a modem

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

Matrix and its bridges

Metroid Dread (and B:RotN)

Mantis Falls cardgame first impressions

The worst things about iPad OS

Quick thoughts on Lemmy

Genre Awareness

Mutating Heroes

What Tasha's Cauldron should have been

Time to review the phone that I helped make!

Obi-Wan som teveserie

The Overstated Criticism of BBC's Sherlock

How I wish “My Two Dads” would’ve ended

Linen finish cards are bad

Världsbiblioteket

Love in a Time of Low Expectations

My reviewing scale

Two versions of Link's Awakening on Switch

A grade-A ditz tries video games

Starforged initial impressions

The IRC client optimized for creepers

Duckburg Family Trees (Rota vs Rosa)

Eating your info vegetables

Re: Bullet Points vs Prose

Gazing back from “The Universe Next Door”

Emergency notifications and the Fediverse

Fedi is like email

Recension på svenska av Lovely People och Meandering Line

Usenet had to die

Mocs

The Heartless Crane

Cooking

In Defense of Mise en Place

Sugars, meat, dairy

Why there are holes in risen bread

Caffeine basics

Shopping seldomly (without meal-planning)

Truth vs advertising in food and taste

Tomato reduction

Så funkar omega-3

Politics

The Narrow Gate to the Long Tail

BankID stänger dörrar

Gruber's CUPS of Chowder

Näringsvärde per hundra gram

My current stance on copyright

Sugars, meat, dairy

Computing Power

Hur ska vi nå klimatförnekarna som utnyttjar LCHF-kulturen?

Du vet att media är brunt när…

Existentialism and Veganism

Vad några inte har fattat med corona

Andersson och Pettersson och Engström och jag

Get Busy Being Born

Sluta greenwasha, Krav!

Franklin Street Statement on Freedom and Network Services

Central Planning vs Living Systems

Social Democracy's Elusive Transparent Dangling Carrot

Understandable, Comprehensible

Economics of Mittens & Socks

If by a true Scotsman's whiskey, you mean

When an autograph destroyed the world

The Kumbaya Doctrine

It might as well be winter all year long

When someone complains about cancel culture…

China's Western Values

Re: r0ml on FLOSS

Wonders of the World, № 8 through 19

Release early, or only when it it's perfect?

Ice Cream Car Crash

Farewell, Hanlon

When I hated Mondays

When the EU wanted to crank up solar

What happened to the world of tomorrow?

Breaking Things at Work

It's been late-stage capitalism for a while now

Also cap and trade sucks

My political self-caricature

What a copyright license can do

Most blank on the cinder

Keep infrastructure free

Two reasons why “The Big Lie” is a bad name

One hand knows what the other hand does

Cost, value, and price

Bagholders and suckers

Anti-natalism (and other problems)

Against Pinocchio

Discussing copyright and scarcity

Capital and Copyright

Help! My rising tide is lifting all those boats!

The Art that Broke the Mold

Election Strategy

You say you want a revolution

Free speech, vs itself

Rikspolischefen

Doubling down on Paludan

Mandatory Planet-Wrecking

A sinking tide lowers all boats

Orc bashing was bad all this time

The Unacceptable Speech

The open and just society

Astrid vs Hitler

The limits of case-by-casing it

One "left", one "right", that's how I organize 'em

Intro to Yee Diagrams

It has to be the radio, Ebba!

Trivial Patents

The Mantle of Responsibility

Nej till NFT på Fotografiska!

Discourses of climate delay

Relative degrees

Communism against Earth

Det banala pappret

An easier way to fail

Romancing Sisyphus' Stone

The quaint wealth gaps of history

Low-Hanging Fruit

Unconditional Basic Income

Ta klimatet på allvar

Doomers over the line

Who can fix it?

Anita Was Right

Vadå 'edivens'?

Nuclear Disagreements

Manchin's victory (on the cinder)

The Viper Manchin

Högkostnadsskydd för el är fel

Swedish Block Politics

My best guess at a climate solution

Centerpartiets 200 förslag

Balance of Power

Planned vs evolved behavior

Intro to politics

Political tipping points

The Party of Fiscal Responsibility

Farewell, anarchy

Backlash from those who stepped away

State vs Climate

Avoiding Fascism

When the world needed doomers

När Liberalerna röstade för fascisterna

Så här ser en högerhegemoni ut

Renewable doesn't mean infinite

EU's road away from fossil cars

Bandypuls vs Public Service

The Null Hypothesis

There's a blaze of light in every word

The “Russia Russia Russia” hoax

Looking ahead together

White Supremacy

XR UK's new line

The free market is an embarrassment

Till moderater och socialdemokrater

NATO vs Erdoğan

Svensson vs socker

Everyone, learn how to code

These last few years

When they didn't just leave it in the ground out of the goodness of their own hearts

When the EU wanted to own all computers

Phonics vs Whole Language Instruction

Robot Meets Doomer

An even-handed and restrained criticism of police

The Low-Hanging Climate Fruit

“They” are only shooting “each other”

Conservatism is means, not ends

Förvaltningsrätten och hetsaren

Machine Learning—good and bad arguments against

I think I'm paranoid

The owner class

Brownshirts vs climate

Vatten- och skogskompromisserna

Defederate Meta?

Can conservatives care about the environment?

Inrikespolitiskt tjafs

From a convo on ETS

With their tanks

What is a state?

Energy rationing

Copyleft and growth

The Hope Pushers

Rpg

How I do Insp in D&D 5e

1d4 hours, chance of waking up turn by turn

My reactions to One Page Dungeon compendium 2016

One Page Dungeon 2016 -- the good parts

5e Inspiration with a dash of Hillfolk

Al-Qadim Golden Voyages weather tables as state machines

Hur spelledaren kan tänka

Fluff älskar crunch

The Resistance + Dramasystem mashup

5e house rule: Arrow threat

The Quest Queue

A way to salvage linear modules

Seeds & Petals theory

5e Inventory sheet

Om att advantage inte stackar

Three Pillars XP, revisited

Inventory tracking without sheet

(D&D) Introducing late night fighting

The average HP to XP ratio of all pretties in the 5e SRD

Almost catching up in mixed level 5e parties

5e Wound Threshold

D&D Inventory System discussed in Excessive Detail

Item sizes for (almost) everything

World Building Workshop in Skövde, June 2019

D&D Inspiration House Rules

D&D Schools of Magic: the Gathering

Drafta relationer för kampanjstart

Landet fortsätter brinna (om diegetiska mekaniker)

Nybörjarkurs i att bråka till sent på natten

Combining multiple encounter rolls

Finer than 5% granularity on a 20-sided die

[5e] School of the Hard Knocks

[D&D] Know each other

Injury Threshold

[D&D] Looking for Stuff Outdoors

Lower ability scores in Five Torches Deep

Timekeeping for DMs

[5e] My take on one-digit monster stats

[5e DM] Strong poison for the weak!

Instant stats for D&D characters

5e initiative cards

Principer för skräckregler

“Star Wars 012” SWd6 mod

Rescuing railroads

Clues in TRPG mysteries

Musings on stats, post Tasha update

My DM screen insert

Climbing abilites compared

Blorb Principles

Dice: Curve vs Linear

Converting to D&D

Less intricate method of purchases and acquisitions

RPG safety tools

Atomic Encounters

Extended Task Resolution

Glossary of key phrases while DM:ing

A li'l FKR caveat

Stray Thoughts on Fight Pacing

Blorb in Principia Apocrypha?

War Pigs & The Mob Rules

OSE, O5R, and OSR monster stats

Postfix rules, when describing action

Getting started with D&D

Flanking in D&D

The Searcher class for 5e

When to move forwards and when to give space

Realism and blorb

Expert / Warrior / Spellcaster XP

Albatross Hexbook

Pretty Much Searchers of the Unknown, Straight Up

Lazy Evaluation in Blorb Prep

Four Different Kinds of Rules Light

Trodde du dissade BitD?

A blorb thought

GURPS, hate it or love it?

Skill systems and blorb

The Old Verbal Components

Autonomous Dorks

The mensch↔hardass scale

[DM] Prep toolbox? New Tepest.

The Fictioneers talk about Blorb again

Ghost Town (homebrew D&D spell)

Fate's Golden Rules

Farewell, West Marches?

Why fights take a long time

Radically transparent DM-ing

Why D&D over other RPGs?

Non-Lethal Force

Fear and Delight

How I use index cards for D&D

DM organization

Every single strike we have advantage

Treasure Jukebox

Ranks, flight, reach, and hiding

Chases and volley rounds

2d6 in Fate and Fudge

Crunch at the right level

Lists of CR groups

Lockpicking house rules for D&D

My dream for the 2024 D&D edition

Houseruled Spells & Abilities

Dirham och dinarer!

Dungeon Outliner

Wights Are Already Scary

Drakar och Demoner

Fudging Designers

Modules and Toolboxes

Drawbacks with, and alternatives to, the plotted side quest system

Orc bashing was bad all this time

What Tasha's Cauldron should have been

Where I am with D&D

In a cloud of wallpaper, bones of salience

Daily logging on al-Toril

Question-Based Design

The Dungeon Map is not the Dungeon Territory

Mellan vättar och pumpahuven

Transparency of Method

Generate Veins Faster

How to stock dungeons

Your seven sources of dungeon maps

Diagram Dungeons

The Good and Bad of Random

Diegetic mechanics

Mysterious spells

Being the Enemy

Playing Ignorant

The Silver Standard

Fractal subsystems

The purpose of spell scrolls

Dungeon Crawling Speed, explained

Fine Character Scale

Shoes: the unknown resource

Group by Group Initiative

Railroading, fudging, and cheating

I put horses heads in people's beds

One D&D (first survey)

Momentum attacks

Bonus-action potion quaffing

Dungeon room history, done right

Why monsters have HP

Deadly Encounters vs Deadly Dungeons

Fail Forward is bad for gaming

D&D's Trope Overlay

5.1 D&D doomsday averted

Starforged initial impressions

Moving the MacGuffin

Talislanta: The Savage Land's monster challenge ratings

1e monsters in 5e, take three

Relocating Gornate Forest to Burdock's Valley

Why the old-school style works well for 5e

The “Tens-Complement” system

Retcon-style mechanics

Fortune at the End

Wither proficiency dice?

Re: Bullet Points vs Prose

Character-tailored play

Scripted rooms in D&D

Nitfol vs Blorb

Blorbprinciperna och badhustjuven

Metagaming, part one—D&D

Realtime D&D exploration

Role-playing tips

Limiting improvisation

Household

The Big Four of Household Cleaning

Shopping seldomly (without meal-planning)

The Troublesome Bottle

Everyone, learn how to code

Mtg

The big reveal in Eldritch Moon

Asynchronous Magic: the Gathering

More playing around with the turn order

Tenchester med set cube

Hur jag bygger en sealed deck i Magic

A Band Apart (for Magic)

Det vita kortdraget i Strixhaven

Coin denominations

Jag kontrar den

The four times I quit Magic

Magic's Adventures in the Forgotten Realms

Bikini-kontringen

How to mash shuffle honestly and straight-forwardly

Shuffling Large Amounts of Cards

Bagholders and suckers

Mythic is the new Rare

Prowess as a combat trick

Universes Beyond

Magic: the Gathering's announcement day, 2023

Magic's sieges are weird

Aesthetics

Seriealbum vs filmer

Star Wars movie watching order

God of the Gaps

From "Hipster" to "Boomer"

What do the little dots and rings over letters mean?

Diacritics Stencil

The Dumbphone Experience

Earth is really old, you guys

CSS — Back to Basics

There are only… wait

Side effects may include

Runaway JavaScript Spec

Buoys in the Harbor

Scheme Refactoring Catalog

Ido vs Esperanto

I only listen to sad, sad songs

Text-TV blir dålig

Coin denominations

Swedish language trivia!

Naming philosophy (for Lisp stuff)

Language grab-bag, chapter 1

When the sequel makes the original worse

Article writing rules

Breaking Things at Work

Whitespace philosophy (for Lisp stuff)

It sucks on screenreaders

Art, in three ways

All a phone needs to do

Gemini Ain't Broke

How I got better at art

When the Galaxy got a modem

One offline night

The Holocene Calendar

Truth vs advertising in food and taste

Re: Smart quotes are a skeuomorphism

Against Faux Sperrsatz Emphasis

Loose Translation

Crunch at the right level

Against Tree Taxonomy Models

Against Pinocchio

Discussing copyright and scarcity

The Art that Broke the Mold

Genre Awareness

Världsspråket

You can tell I really really wanna complain about it but I'm not gonna

Reverse your articles

The World Language

Orc bashing was bad all this time

My two rules for superhero resurrection

Mutating Heroes

The path through prose

Intro to Yee Diagrams

Why are links blue and purple?

Feldstein's Method

Genre vs Literature

Back panel settings

The Cooperative Principle

Writing Style Guide

When an AI researcher didn't research AI

Linen finish cards are bad

The pandering panic

Whales are fish

Världsbiblioteket

WYSIWYG vs markup

New York City I

There's a blaze of light in every word

A weird framework is not itself a compelling mystery

Phonics vs Whole Language Instruction

All that is solid melts into air

Include needless words

Re: Feeds are a dark pattern

Cultural appropriation

Playing cards with indicators along one edge

Dom-reform, ja tack!

Emphasis vs Italics

Eating your info vegetables

Re: Bullet Points vs Prose

Gemini vs Web Semantics

Fingers and thumbs

Carrots & Cigarettes

The piano-playing fish

Competence — A new approach to story

Boardgames

Against "Legacy"-style board games

How I teach the "Mottainai" card game

Four Go Variants

A proposal to end white's advantage in chess

Blunders and kludges

Card games with hidden, but trackable information

Coin denominations

The Game Sent By God

My Dixit houserules and practices

Using a sand hourglass timer for board games

How to mash shuffle honestly and straight-forwardly

Mantis Falls cardgame first impressions

Discussing copyright and scarcity

Equalizer Baduk variant

Linen finish cards are bad

Självklara beslut i spel

Memory vs Reason

Our “Twenty Questions” houserules

Playing cards with indicators along one edge

Klöverplockarspelet

Falling off the Edge of the World

Fiction

Det är inte magi om man tror på det

Bonus-action potion quaffing

Poetry

Best named books of all time

amount of times today

dt full of flowers

smitten with coffee pourer

fram tills idag störde det mig

ed config.h && make install

Biography of Ennius c. 239 – c. 169 BC

Dagny Spill Drops Songs

Fun and goofy limerick time

Call your girlfriend

Mere painful history

Tilting at the Belltower

The Procrastination of the Dharma Eye

Old Molly Metcalfe hacking Lisp

World's sloppiest time pilot

Psychology

Welcome to Earth

God of the Gaps

Tro, hopp, och/eller kärlek

Sagan om lammet

Ulvaeus om Gud & Dukkha

Running the Sleeping Beauty Experiment

All I have to do

The Secular Afterlife Myth

Wrapping up "Conspiracy"

Ending Spoilers: The Brothers Lionheart and The Good Place

Guilt by Association

"Good" is the enemy of "perfect"

Calm Notifications

New Mutants Journal Prompts

It's OK if people are wrong and bad

The Flawed "Text Filter" Approach to Kindness

Re: The Thoughts The Civilized Keep

If by a true Scotsman's whiskey, you mean

Buoys in the Harbor

Tragedy vs Statistics

I only listen to sad, sad songs

When algebra is easier than subtraction

The mensch↔hardass scale

Deliberate Usability Obstacles

Separating art from artist

Coin denominations

The Game Sent By God

Extend the language

Farewell, Hanlon

When the sequel makes the original worse

Towards a sweet spot of urgency

The Appeal of Online

One offline night

Punishment and validation

Truth vs advertising in food and taste

State the Obvious

Fear and Delight

Acceptansfrågan

Against Pinocchio

You can tell I really really wanna complain about it but I'm not gonna

Intro to Yee Diagrams

There's no home for you here

Biblical Marriage

When some evangelicals worshipped the wrong guy

Let's keep trying together

Who is best in life?

Three stories about appeal to authority

Planned vs evolved behavior

When an AI researcher didn't research AI

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator problem

The Analog Guideline

Innehållsvarningar

Take breaks when learning

That you don't know what you did wrong makes it so much worse

There's a blaze of light in every word

Everyone, learn how to code

All that is solid melts into air

Evangelicals & Climate Change

Against the “Criterion of Embarrassment”

Machine Learning—good and bad arguments against

How rational human beings exchange ideas

The Secular Internet

Hitchens and the Myth of Socrates

The Bible and climate change

Venom is not a good sage's charge

Gazing back from “The Universe Next Door”

Occam's Turtles All the Way

Videogames

Against Metroidvania

Super Mario Bros 2 myths

Teleporting into Trash

When the sequel makes the original worse

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

Metroid Dread (and B:RotN)

Two versions of Link's Awakening on Switch

A grade-A ditz tries video games

Invert your axes

Rymden

Back in my day we had twenty-three planets

When was the Internet invented?

Earth is really old, you guys

When the Galaxy got a modem

Against Pinocchio

When my diary mentioned 密率

The Drake Equation

Genre vs Literature

Fusion vs the doomsday clock

Here we are in the future

When a watch company promoted the revolutionary calendar

Physics vs Crime

Presuming vs the Highest

Gtd

"Good" is the enemy of "perfect"

Calm Notifications

Deep Work, No Work, and GTD

Shopping seldomly (without meal-planning)

Towards a sweet spot of urgency

Supposedly simpler than GTD

One offline night

Postponing things is good

There are two kinds of notes

The Noguchi Filing System

The secrets to writing so damned much

Push, Pull, Browse, Read

File the Future

How to get back to GTD if you've been off it for a while

The Procrastination of the Dharma Eye

Re: A Productivity System For Creators

What was Inbox Zero?

Music

Guitar fretting patterns with DADFAD tuning

Guitar fretting patterns with DADF♯AD tuning

DX7 Patches — old edition

I only listen to sad, sad songs

Weird

Padlock / DM FAQ