Phew. I broke 1,000 lines of code. It was a lot of tedious work, but I implemented power classes and categories from the Ultimate Powers Guide. Originally I started coding from the Advanced Players Guide, but then remembered the Ultimate Powers Guide and how it really upped the game by having even more combinations and […]
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The python coding adventure continues. I was making great progress until I hit another roadblock. How do you take a list of strings and associate a numerical value to them? What’s more, how do you perform a calculation based on those values many of which have duplicates? The answer was a combination of dictionaries and
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In my continued learning for Python, I decided to try to level up my skills and go more advanced. Previously, I took an analog medium, comics or more specifically New Mutants 2019 Issue 07, and converted a fight sequence that simulated dice rolling by porting it into a digital format which you can see here.
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After spending several days crash coursing Python, I wanted to share the improvements and a before and after of code. My first attempt, I was able to replicate the fight sequence from New Mutants 2019 Issue 07 with 100 lines of code. I leaned on what I was comfortable with — if then loops. However,
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So I have been learning to code in Python for some of the various project ideas I have and wanted to see how I did on something that does not exist as far as I can tell. In the Marvel Comic New Mutants, from 2019, Issue 07, there is a sequence in which the New
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Back in March, I setup piHole on an Amazon EC2 instance. If you are new to AWS, you can get a year of the smaller EC2 server instances to use for free for 1 year. Afterwards, it is pennies per day depending on what size you build. Super neat. Save on power, pi and random
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So coming from the Windows world, certificates are kind of a pain. You have to generate a certificate request from a trusted authority, then sign the certificate, and manually install it on the server. Plus, if you are using a 3rd party to do it and not your own domain then you will have to
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The purpose of this webpage is to chart the progressions of my journey into various interests and activities. I will be linking to some of the different sources where I have published data so that this site can serve as a better aggregator of information as well as a possible timeline of activities. Recently, the
