ebullient·works

Host, or Guest? It doesn't matter.

Max and I discuss different testing strategies for command mode applications (or command-line interfaces (CLIs) if you prefer).

I've had a lovely time working with Obsidian.md. Some day I will have to do a proper write-up of how I'm using it to organize my brain.

The TL;DR version is that I had a mental log-jam in March, when the kids finished their first D&D campaign while I was also in the middle of starting some new things for the day job. I made a vault for D&D, and dumped ALL of the stuff there (removing it from the scattering of notes I had in places, and netting out all the relationships I kind of had just lying around in my head). I made another vault for the rest of what is in my brain, and that is proceeding at a slower pace.

In any event, the way things have evolved, I needed a plugin that did something a little differently for a specific kind of task that is associated with a project, so I created the Task Collector plugin.

OMG! I had a hard time writing this. I was asked if I would do it, which I said yes to before really having a clear idea what I wanted to talk about. As a keynote for J4K, I could have spoken about … a whole plethora of things.

Host, or Guest? It doesn't matter. I got to spend an hour talking with two of my favorite people, Rick Osowski @rosowski, and Chris Richardson @crichardson, about the evolution of microservices, recommended practices, and pitfalls.

Giuseppe Scaramuzzino @GiuseScara comes by to discuss his youtube channel, tutorials and building Quarkus projects using MicroProfile specifications.

I created another weird side project, this one only sort of related to monsters. I do (still) use FightClub5 as a player, and to manage what my players have to deal with / look at for our campaigns. Obsidian has started to take over as campaign manager, because encounters are created/set up/and tracked in Roll20.

I have been working with https://github.com/kinkofer/FightClub5eXML/ to stitch together the sources I want for FightClub5 (the source for these XML files in turn is https://5e.tools/, which is pretty good, too).

One thing lead to another, and time passed, and I worked on the Quarkus CLI, and then I had the idea to write my own client that could do all of the steps required (validate the xml, merge/combine/filter with XSLT) and additionally convert the output into markdown.

Happy Happy!

Being a co-host is hard work, especially while in (yet another) remote location.

A video in which live coding happens, and I don't mess up too badly.

I thoroughly enjoy talking with Adam. We sat down awhile ago to talk about metrics: who needs them, what they are for.. and some other things.