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Some UI improvement ideas — UI considerations It may seem I am nitpicking, but hear me out. 1) There is no reason to enumerate the dice for input! Since the values are 1-6, you can just directly enter the _values_ of the dice you want instead of figuring out what _position_ they are in! In fact I routinely made such errors, entering 1 because I want to keep the one, even though it is in position 2, for instance. It is an unnecessary cognitive load! 2) After selection, the dice are redrawn, but...
💬 16 comments · May 12 · 8 weeks ago
Another corner condition bug — Somehow, in Lagrange, I managed to get two "select dice" dialogs. After the first one is accepted, the second one results in a crashed cgi. I was not able to easily replicate it, so I opened two windows with the same certificate into "?select", and yup, same deal - pythony CGI crash It seems that your logic is not protected from out-of-sequence responses. Oh, entering the selection directly into the URL line allows you to select from the remaining dice more than...
💬 5 comments · May 12 · 8 weeks ago
I don’t like it when I farkle It’s sad