Onamap-A “Virtual Tabletop” for Shadowdark (and more)This article series is about how I’m creating a VTT website called Onamap from scratch using Django. The goal is to be really really easy…Jan 25Jan 25
Onamap — Building a Django App From ScratchI have been using — on and off — Django since verison 1 in 2009. For the last four (!) years, I’ve been a senior developer at a company…Jan 21Jan 21
VFR in IFR: A possible use for Apple Vision ProApple Vision Pro (henceforth — AVP) is going to fail. It is going to fail, because no matter how good it is (and I’m sure it’s very good)…Jan 20, 2024Jan 20, 2024
A brief history of technologyIn rough chronological order. Draw your own conclusions.Feb 6, 2021Feb 6, 2021
Sorry Blockchain — Math requires Axioms, the Internet requires TrustI was listening to Oscar Santolalla’s excellent Let’s Talk About Digital Identity podcast the other morning — I believe this one, but…Jan 31, 2021Jan 31, 2021
JSON Web Signatures, using Node.JS and JOSE(s)The last time I had my head up, about four years ago, JSON Web Tokens (JWT) defined by RFC 7519 were all the rage. What I didn’t know was…Dec 31, 2020Dec 31, 2020
How to create an X.509 Public / Private Keypair — with no promptingYou’ll end up with two files “private.key.pem” and “public.cer.pem”. If you’re just playing around — which likely you are — the “subj” is…Dec 31, 2020Dec 31, 2020
Example of Pulling of Structured Data from Wikidata.orgWikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for…Dec 17, 2020Dec 17, 2020
Tools to Extract Text from WebpagesAs part of my ongoing explorations to understand NLP, I decided to polish up a project I’ve had laying about for years: iotdb-extract. It…Nov 14, 2020Nov 14, 2020
