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Dave Snider
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Builder of web things. Still hacking every day. Building tableslayer.com https://davesnider.com
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · Mar 21
Table Slayer is now feature complete. I plan on opening it up for beta up next week, and doing a full release once I come back from vacation in mid April. It will be Open Source. Here's a demo. If you're interested in helping with the beta, sign up at tableslayer.com.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 5d
I used beet to redo all the tags too. Took me most of the day, but I'm happy with the output.

beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
beets: the music geek’s media organizer — beets
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 6d
There is also an absurd amount of tunes that originated from "music.download.com", which hasn't existed for 20 years.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 6d
Migrating a large music library to a new NAS and taking the opportunity to clean up all the directories, file names, and meta tags. Thought it would be easy, but then I remembered I'm married to @nopartofnothin.bsky.social and she loves single tracks and Bluegrass live albums.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 11d
Our travel trailer is winterized and cleaned out till next season. My family spent seven weeks in it this year, a new record! Next trip will likely be to colonial Williamsburg in the Spring. If anyone has any good spots to check out within three hours south of there lemme know.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 11d
Banjo sometimes likes to sneak up directly to my face while I'm sitting on the couch. Ears back stealth mode.
Adorable dog
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 11d
My kids walk around and say "camera one", "camera two" since watching it.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 11d
Easily substitute in a plethora when you need some variety. youtube.com/shorts/yJj0H...
Three Amigos - A Plethora
YouTube video by Bottom Shorts
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 13d
Canadians are adorable.
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At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 17d
Oh god, what am I doing? I'm rewriting the Kingdom Rules for Pathfinder Kingmaker. The original source is EXTREMELY rules heavy and unfun. I want something lighter that gives purpose to Kingdom turns.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 20d
I'm not the best at painting minis, but did a quick sorcerer for my son.
Dragonborn sorcerer miniature
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21d
More than a decade ago, I sat down with @marcmaron.bsky.social in his garage to tape something new called a podcast. This time, he came to me to record his last episode.

We talked about the power of conviction, decency in an age of division, and the true story of America.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 21d
Played a bit of Age of Wonders 4 with my son today. That game keeps getting better and better. Wish more people checked it out instead of grumbling about Civ.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 23d
It's so much like being a high level manager. You need to let go and focus on the overall goal. I find it just as unsettling as when I tried to coach skills and got blank faces from half the juniors.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 23d
Taking my boy to see Tron: Ares in IMAX. Pretty much assuming Tron is more of an aesthetic and soundtrack than a franchise these days, and I'm totally cool with that. "Bio-digital jazz, man!"
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 23d
The funny stuff is where other games that use the license (ex: Marvel Champions) gets angry when the license expires for the actual licensed game, but then have to watch those same characters somehow end up in Magic.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 23d
Yep. It's just bad UX across the board. You have to be REALLY disciplined to make typical React patterns work. Really appreciate the more progressive approaches of Sveltekit with data loading. Like you can still do that crazy, just not the default suggestion.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 23d
3. A ranger convinced a horse it wanted to charge the goblins.
4. They took a goblin captive, and plan to trade him in to a larger boss, then backstab him as well.

Names! King Chimpanzee, Leaf Beef, Hollow Fang, and wait for it.... Bigback Fishsticks.

Kids are way more inventive than adults.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 23d
Summary of a DnD session with 10 year olds.

1. The Druid decided not to introduce himself to the party, pretending to be a squirrel in the tavern, then became the horse pulling the cart.
2. The party immediately tried to parlay with goblins, then back-stabbed them after agreeing to terms.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 23d
Now seems like a particularly terrible time to be shipping large screen touch screens across the pacific.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 24d
Every time I prep for a session (this time for my son's friends tonight) I find things to improve or fix in Table Slayer. I need to find a way to play two games a week instead of two a month to better winnow remaining issues.

Small one today: make it so tooltips go away when erasing / drawing.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 25d
I mean, we were ahead of the game on that method. Wish we'd have had a little more experience before we built Webhook! 🥲
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 26d
Offhand, from memory

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Matrix
4. The Departed
5. Watchmen
6. Trainspotting
7. Goodfellas
8. JAWS
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Reservoir Dogs
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 26d
Yeah. That's a given.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 26d
My strategy has mostly been to load EVERYTHING the page needs server side initially, then when the page needs to mutate (new or edited content), then you can do that client side, and invalidate whatever data you need. Svelte makes this a breeze.
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 26d
Am I the only person left that prefers a web page to load in two seconds with everything rendered vs. in one second with a dozen loading spinners or skeletons for each piece of the app? I feel like the move to client side has just made developers lazy towards the UX of their apps.
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