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Dave Snider

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 1h

Canadians are adorable.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 9h

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 3d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 7d

I'm not the best at painting minis, but did a quick sorcerer for my son.

Dragonborn sorcerer miniature

Reposted by Dave Snider

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 8d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 10d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 10d

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!"

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 10d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 10d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 10d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 10d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 10d

Now seems like a particularly terrible time to be shipping large screen touch screens across the pacific.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 11d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 12d

I mean, we were ahead of the game on that method. Wish we'd have had a little more experience before we built Webhook! 🥲

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 12d

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

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 12d

Yeah. That's a given.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 13d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 13d

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.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 13d

For folks interested in self-hosting Table Slayer... would it be acceptable to have some limited dependencies (Turso for DB, Cloudflare for a media bucket and websockets)? Both services have ample free plans. Making those two optional would be difficult. Everything else I've been able to remove.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 13d

Without seeing her post I walked into my wife's office and said "Are those TWO thesauruses?"

We were meant to be.

Nicole Solis Snider @nopartofnothin.bsky.social · 13d

Also, I am actively using both my thesauruses and wishing I had some poor unfortunate soul ask me what the difference is between them so I could expound on the benefits of each. I am super fun at parties.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 13d

Was thinking about following the NHL this year. Watching the opening match and the animated ads on the boards are driving me nuts. Are all broadcasts like this?

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 13d

Too busy playing a game on Steam at the time to notice.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 14d

Prepping a campaign for my son and his friends. Going with DnD: Phandelver and the Obelisk Below because it's relatively straight forward and has SO MANY free assets out there. I wanted something easy to run and fairly linear to contrast with my Pathfinder: Kingmaker regular game.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 16d

After watching One Battle to Another I've got Steely Dan's "Dirty Work" stuck in my head. Love that song, but was never a big Steely Dan fan. The move was great. PTA always delivers the goods.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 16d

When in doubt, root for a different baseball bird.