June 2018 - Spitball Sessions

Washboard

George R. R. Martin’s “Wild Cards” – A Model for Drug Use in Video Games?

Joshua Noyes Posted on June 11, 2018January 12, 2024

So, due to my apprent pathological inability to finish any novel not written by Stephen King or Kurt Vonnegut this year, I found myself listening to the audiobook version of George R R Martin’s Wild Cards I, to apparently avoid finishing James Clavell’s Shogun. Now, it’s actually proper to say that Wild Cards is curated […]

Dev Diary

Wizard Jam Day 3 – Climb Every Mountain

Joshua Noyes Posted on June 11, 2018December 7, 2018

Well, it took me significantly longer than I expected – most of today – but I can create and… well, I was gonna say reload a character, but now that I think about it, I’ve set it up to reload a character, but not their current state. So that might be an afternoon’s worth of […]

Dev Diary

Thedrelle’s log #1: Dev projects and time management.

Thedrelle Posted on June 10, 2018December 7, 2018

Spitball Sessions has been running for quite a while now, and I have been very remiss in writing a blog post on my current projects. I am very prolific in my projects, usually working on several things at any given time. Excepting work, i fill my time with photography, illustration, programming, design projects, 3d modelling […]

Dev Diary

WizardJam Day 1 – Humanity in a Handful of Words.

Joshua Noyes Posted on June 9, 2018December 7, 2018

So, like a game of Munchkin, my program starts as a level 1 program with no class (heh, heh). Unlike Munchkin, however, this game will be done in under 2 weeks.

Dev Diary

WizardJam Dev Log – Day 0: Moving Mountains

Joshua Noyes Posted on June 7, 2018December 7, 2018

Whelp, looks like dat Spitball boy’s dun gone and got himself into a heap of trouble this time. By which I mean that I joined the Idle Thumbs WizardJam. For those who don’t know, Idle Thumbs was a podcast I used to listen to a lot. I listen to it less now, but that’s fine. […]

Tutorials & Tricks

Tutorial #1 – Using the USZIPCODE Python Library to expand a weather app

Joshua Noyes Posted on June 6, 2018June 6, 2018

As I’ve mentioned a few times on Twitter, recently, I’ve started using Mike Kennedy’s (of TalkPython.fm) Python Jumpstart course. It really is a great course, so check it out. I tried the book “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python” first, but I find Mike does a really good job of making some of the underlying […]