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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: August 18, 2024, 02:32 PM »

Love this:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=mi106DZJhuQ

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Living Room / Re: Is mouser on vacation ?

« on: August 03, 2024, 02:24 PM »

yep im at the gencon board game convention until sunday!
-jesse

ps.
One of the things I am doing there is running a session on my new boardgame (New York Noir Mysteries High and Low)

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Living Room / Re: Upgrading/migrating server prepare for some downtime

« on: July 05, 2024, 07:36 PM »

Donationcoder is an old girl.. having started in 2005.. We've been through a lot of changes.. When we moved to a dedicated server in 2007 or so (?) cpanel was a lifesaver, giving us many wonderful options to tweak things.  Now in 2024 it does not feel as wonderful and seems to provide many ways to get into trouble

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: July 04, 2024, 12:48 AM »

I have continued to work on my software for creating mystery cases for my High & Low game.  A major milestone was reached in developing an online website for building casebooks.
The next major step of the project is to support a kind of slow play by mail engine for the game, which I am excited about.

In the process I familiarized myself with Docker, a tool for setting up virtual operating system setups and running things in sandboxes.  It has made hosting a python-based tool much less stressful. highly recommended.

Here was my latest livestream diaries:
https://www.youtube.com/live/x5Bc_K5RoAU

https://www.youtube.com/live/3HB82TqmgLM

And the official bgg game page:
https://boardgamegee...steries-high-and-low

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Official Announcements / Re: New server/OS update

« on: July 03, 2024, 11:01 PM »

It's clear the server upgrade is not proceeding at a satisfactory page, so I'm going to take the forum out of maintenance mode for now.
We will wait until we are truly ready to move over the forum before we shut it down again.

For now we are just going to stay on our current server until we get all the ducks in a row and then we can proceed to migrate in a more orderly fashion

My apologies!
-jesse

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Official Announcements / New server/OS update

« on: July 02, 2024, 04:43 AM »

i apologize for the forum downtime everyone -- i am shifting my attention to it now
there is nothing wrong with the server or data, just an overdue need to move to new operating system and/or server, and its my least favorite kind of thing so ive been dragging my feet.  i just put the forum into maintenance mode so that when the hosting company moved the database we wouldnt lose any recent posts.  But if it takes too much longer I will re-enable to forum, and we can manually move over the most recent version of the forum database after we get everything else set up.

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Living Room / Upgrading/migrating server prepare for some downtime

« on: June 21, 2024, 02:08 AM »

We are migrating/upgrading the server so prepare for a bit of downtime.
The server OS and CPANEL install have reached end of service so we need to upgrade the OS, and it's a bit of work.
Crossed fingers it will all go smoothly!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: App opens in second monitor

« on: May 11, 2024, 09:50 PM »

It should remember where it was last opened and continue there.  Perhaps try starting Screenshot Captor, moving it to the monitor you want it on, then exiting and restarting the program.  Does it then come back on the monitor of your choice?

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Android Apps / Re: Any chance to update WhenLast?

« on: May 11, 2024, 09:48 PM »

Thank you for the report I will check; the first 3 sound like they should be easy to fix.
Multi-device sync stopped working when dropbox api stopped working.. That's probably not something easily fixed.

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Android Apps / Re: Any chance to update WhenLast?

« on: May 11, 2024, 10:22 AM »

I've tried to push out an update -- let me know if it works for you.

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Android Apps / Re: Any chance to update WhenLast?

« on: May 11, 2024, 06:18 AM »

I've finally got WhenLast rebuilt for new android googleplay requirements.. now i just have to test the beta on the play store before i can make it official.  thank you for your patience!

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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.

« on: May 05, 2024, 06:19 AM »

Logitech Mx Master 3S has a wonderful dull quiet sound when you click the buttons.  I love it.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« on: April 20, 2024, 02:09 AM »

I'm very much considering building a raspberry pi based device that you can plug an old standard analog telephone into, and have a game software interact with you over the phone.

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Living Room / Re: My new project is now live: Co-op For Two on YouTube

« on: April 08, 2024, 06:44 AM »

In the video above I also talk about my board game, High & Low: https://boardgamegee.../418459/high-and-low
(from that link you can download and play a mystery case that I wrote for it).

I am now in the process of writing a web service to assist other authors in creating new cases for the game.

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Living Room / Re: My new project is now live: Co-op For Two on YouTube

« on: April 08, 2024, 06:41 AM »

Third anniversary of my youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/live/geqWlVWH-OE

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Android Apps / Re: Any chance to update WhenLast?

« on: April 08, 2024, 12:36 AM »

i'll give it a try.

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General Software Discussion / Back once again to Django

« on: April 05, 2024, 06:10 PM »

Over a decade ago I used Django, the Python web development / content management infrastructure.
I used it for a web project that was eventually abandoned.
A few years after that I started my own library for doing somewhat similar things on a smaller scale (mewlo), focused on providing user-management infrastructure, but that eventually was abandoned unfinished.
I had a love-hate relationship with Django.
I've recently gone back to it to work on a web service for my board game system, and I am finding myself impressed by its suitability to get up and running with code quickly, providing lots of scaffolding for managing data, etc.
So far it's been more love than hate, but I'm just getting started.
Anyone have experience with Django recently?

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: January 28, 2024, 08:33 PM »

Third livestream developer diary is up here:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=PKYFKM-RrAg

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: New Apps for the New Year 2024 section is open

« on: January 03, 2024, 10:27 PM »

You probably have till the end of the week before it gets written up.

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: January 01, 2024, 09:12 PM »

I've written TONS of code in the last 6 months for the High & Low project, but I guess the one tool that is of a bit more general use is what I will use for my NANY.
It's a commandline python utility for making analog "game books" for games like Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective.

It's open Sourced on github here: https://github.com/dcmouser/hlparser
It's very ugly alpha state prototype, but it does work and could be useful if you are into this kind of thing.

For a sense of what it does, it takes this:


And makes it into this:

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Living Room / Merrry Christmas and all that

« on: December 24, 2023, 05:26 PM »

For all who celebrate it or just celebrate by buying yourself some fun presents, merry christmas and I hope everyone gets to spend some time relaxing or celebrating in your own way.

-jesse (mouser)

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: December 15, 2023, 03:57 PM »

My second livestream design diary will be on sunday, where I talk about progress on the game:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=2ZmPpvQRv2c

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR crash related to changing monitor sizes.

« on: November 27, 2023, 04:32 AM »

I apologize for the frustration this must be causing and the creative workarounds you've been willing to create for it!
I will try to fix. 
This seems like a good clue: "1) Farr doesn't actually crash at runtime, it crashes when it's hotkey (alt space) is pressed."
FARR has some code that tries to fix up the window position if it is off screen -- something must be going wrong here.

Quick question first, have you tried changing some of the options that tell FARR whether you want it to automatically position itself on the monitor when it shows?

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: October 14, 2023, 06:42 AM »

Thank you Still so much to do but making progress.

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: October 05, 2023, 07:40 PM »

I will be doing a livestream game design update/diary this sunday october 8th, at 12 noon CST, if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=h9-hC6y8Uzk