In the 2021 A-Z Blog Challenge I took a run at Divine Trappings. Something of a follow up to Polyhedral Pantheons, Divine Trappings are descriptive elements that might be applied to a deity (and their associated religions) based on the domains assigned to that deity. I didn’t quite finish the …
Owen KC Stephens is currently undergoing radiotherapy for cancer that went undetected for a decade. In the USA, this is really expensive. We want to help him. If you’ve played an RPG in the last little while (as in ‘in the last twenty years or so’), odds are quite good …
… sounds like some kind of weird meal preparation product. I haven’t completely stalled on #lore24, but it’s close. I started looking at my random table resolver, and got sidetracked. For a command line tool I wrote more than 25 years ago — in the late 1900s — it does …
Back in the saddle. I tried the #dungeon23 challenge last year and failed miserably (two posts in #dungeon23, three in #pantheon23… last was on January 2, 2023). Let’s see if I can do better this year. Some time ago I explored the idea of a West Marches-style open table campaign. …
My last post explored a few of my use cases and how they might work… and ended with a situation that puzzled me: how do I resolve the ‘original file name’ of a document file, when I have merged multiple copies of the same document (and file) from different sources? …
A recent post included some quick validation of a tentative design… and failed it! I argue this is a successful validation exercise: if the ‘first-best results’ prove a design or implementation is correct, ‘second-best results’ find a problem before it matters. Second-best results are just fine by me, they me …
My previous post, Quick Validation, concluded almost immediately the more abstract model I was considering is not suitable for my purpose here. You might be wondering why. In a relational database, referential integrity is a critical consideration. Normally a table may contain fields defined as ‘pointing at another table’. These …
My last post looked at some abstractions that might do good things for me, but as with any design decision (or even design think-hard-about) it’s a good idea to validate it. Even if it’s not possible to prove correct, it can at least be possible to determine it’s not a …
In my last post, regarding Operations, at one point I started to write “and everything can have Tags”… when I realized that can happen, but takes a little extra work. What if they could, though? Early in this series when I wrote about data modeling I recognized that many entities …
Unlike at work, where ‘operations’ means ‘keeping Production from tipping over’, here I mean ‘what things do we want to be able to do with this application?’ In database terms, we want the full range of CRUD actions: Create, Read, Update, and Delete records. This includes any other artifacts (such …
