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horuskol

@horuskol@phpc.social

I used to build things with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP (2002 - 2023).

Now I'm spending more time creating boardgames, and hoping to sell some.

I also like using saws, chisels, and hammers.

An ex-Englishman living in South Australia.

he/him

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horuskol, to HashtagGames
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Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads

The story of a much delayed motorway extension.

#HashtagGames
#SecretMeaningsInSongs

ramsey, to php
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I was looking at this Sass (SCSS) compiler, written in , and I noticed something very odd.

Under “requires (dev)," it requires two packages, sass/sass-spec and thoughtbot/bourbon, both of which appear to be empty packages, containing only a composer.json file, which has no dependencies.

What’s the purpose of these packages? They otherwise appear suspicious, to me, but I can’t see that they're doing anything nefarious right now—they just appear pointless.

https://packagist.org/packages/scssphp/scssphp

horuskol,
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@ramsey

It looks like some kind of namespace hijack. The packages look like they were added to the project several years ago, but this guy has published new empty ones more recently. He's got a bunch of other repositories doing the same. Not sure what his endgame is, though.

horuskol, to HashtagGames
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Al Mascarpone - the terror of Cheesecago

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#CuisineAFamousPerson

xinicit, to random
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A single ravioli is called a ravionly.

horuskol,
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@xinicit

When you cut one open it becomes unravioled

horuskol, to HashtagGames
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Two guys, a ghoul and a pizza place


ramsey, to random
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Who else has trouble answering the “Occupation” field on forms, when it’s a predetermined list of options, with no “Other” option?

I guess the closest thing, for me, would be “Information Technology, Systems,” but I’ve spent much of my adult life explaining to others that I’m not in IT, so it feels wrong to select that.

horuskol,
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@ramsey

I often got hit on this throughout my career as a software developer - it's weird that it wouldn't appear on many of these lists.

It isn't limited to our profession. My wife does meta-analysis of drugs and therapeutics, and manages the publication of this information. She usually gets lumped into "Health" or "Publishing" depending on whose list she gets to pick from.

horuskol, to boardgames
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Prototyping - unfortunately not going well with this experiment.

I need slightly stronger but more flexible magnetic tape.

horuskol,
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@EmpyClaw

Thanks.

andrewfeeney, to random
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I’ve got that Elton Dune song stuck in my head.

“Benny and the Gessarit!”

horuskol,
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@andrewfeeney followed by:

"Don't Go Raking That Sand"

"Thumper in the Sand"

"I'm Still Fremen"

horuskol, to HashtagGames
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Burr

#LesserKnownBroadwayMusicals
#HashtagGames

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Starlight Calling At All Stations

#LesserKnownBroadwayMusicals
#HashtagGames

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Draughts/Chequers

#LesserKnownBroadwayMusicals
#HashtagGames

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The Silence of No Music

#LesserKnownBroadwayMusicals
#HashtagGames

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Phantom of the Firefox

#LesserKnownBroadwayMusicals
#HashtagGames

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Meerkats

#LesserKnownBroadwayMusicals
#HashtagGames

horuskol,
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@andrewfeeney

Cats?

horuskol, to HashtagGames
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🎵
Annie are oaky?
Are you oaky?
You oaky, Annie?
🎵

#TreeASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

horuskol, to boardgames
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Prototyping a new game...

Hexagonal boards are a pain to draw out.

Couldn't find a single piece of cardboard large enough, so had to cut four ten inch squares instead.

horuskol,
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This is a time saver though. No way I'm going to measure each individual hexagon.

horuskol, to boardgames
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Found a nice bookshop in a small town when on holiday last week, and chanced upon What Board Games Mean To Me.

https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/What-Board-Games-Mean-To-Me/Donna-Gregory/9781839082726

Looking forward to reading it.

#BoardGames

jvalleroy, to boardgames
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What's a good board / card / party game for 5 or more players?

#BoardGames #CardGames

horuskol,
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@jvalleroy

Ticket to Ride can handle 5, and is fairly quick to move around each turn.

Sequence is interesting as you team up with 2 or more but coordination is disallowed.

Bananagrams is fun and simultaneous.

andrewfeeney, to random
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What is the most obscure programming language you know well, or have chosen to / had to use in earnest?

horuskol,
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@andrewfeeney @ross

Seasonal Food and Clothes DLC is a rort

horuskol, to boardgames
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When you think of a theme and game idea 💡 ...

Then find a bunch of similar games on board game geeks 😭

And now I want to buy even more board games

horuskol, to random
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First time charging the MG4 on a public charger (currently free at IKEA) - because I wanted to test our fast-charge cable before heading out of town.

Not too bad. Would have gone smoother if I'd remembered that the car charge schedule means it doesn't automatically charge after 5pm 🙄

revk, (edited ) to random
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It is Tue 30th Jan

When is “next Friday”?

[boost boost boost]

horuskol, (edited )
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@revk

For me, "next Friday" should be the 9th.

"The next Friday" would be the 2nd, though. I think...

horuskol, to random
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Bit of a sad day.

I had high hopes that ViewCrafter would be a great development/design tool when I started working on it over five years ago. I struggled getting product-market fit, and I completely lost momentum on it in 2020 while I was occupied with family things, and never really returned to the project in earnest.

Today, I finally terminated the instance that was running the app.

horuskol,
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On the plus side - I feel I've lightened my load by finally taking this action rather than ignoring it for so long.

Still got some other related administration to deal with. Hopefully once I get that sorted, I can better focus on the future.

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