Jay Shaffstall
cliope.bsky.social
Jay Shaffstall
@cliope.bsky.social
Software developer, educator, father, roleplaying enthusiast, LARPer, and more.
I do some consulting on the side, and a fun bit of a recent project was to use pyparsing in Python to evaluate an algebraic expression that could include dice and variables. So 2+3d6-sin(foo^2) would be valid. #python #consulting
January 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm having trouble finding folks interested in niche roleplaying games here in Blue Sky land. Anyone else here into games like Solipsist, Time & Temp, Risus?
January 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I've been playing with the Windsurf IDE lately. It's an AI powered IDE.

It's great at broad strokes, terrible at good architecture, not so great at details. Generally what it creates doesn't run right away, and you have to know enough to tell it what to fix.

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December 8, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I'm sure I'm late to this, but I just discovered notebooklm.google.com . You feed it a PDF of something and it'll then use an AI to answer questions about it. It's got a cool podcast generator where two AI folks talk about the content. Great for roleplaying game rules!
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 AM
I ran a game of Risus last night, the first roleplaying I'd gotten in for a few years. I ran a Call of Cthulhu-esque time loop scenario where PCs lived the same Monday over and over until they worked out how to break the loop. Lots of fun!
November 13, 2024 at 12:50 AM
I'm a software developer, an educator, a roleplayer whose D&D days are long behind him and tends more toward Call of Cthulhu and indie games these days. I'm a father, I write occasionally, I love theater style LARPs, and have been known to act in community theater plays.
November 9, 2024 at 9:52 PM