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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 · 2d

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 · 6d

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

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 9d

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.