Alex Schroeder’s Diary
This is the online diary about the stuff Alex Schroeder reads and does. There are various ways to contact me, but email is best.
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. And finally, you can look at the data directory 📁 sorted by modification date.
Blog posts:
- Schatzkarten
- Gesinnung ist sehr reduktiv
- Scanning the local network
- Wieviel Kosmologie braucht die Welt?
- Cheap backups
- Campaign building blocks
- Wie viel Geschichte braucht die Welt?
- Magische Waffen für Horte
- Personal software
- How to add an index to your PDF
- Sanitize HTML and SVG?
- Episode 50
- pyenv, venv and weasyprint
- Using legit for my repos
- This site on other ports
- Tempo im Rollenspiel
- Human Rights and thinking things through
- Oddµ is opinionated software, or bloated
- Trying to use Sway as my window manager
- Bought some tea for 2024
- Walking around in Bern
- Upgrading from PureOS to Debian Bookworm
- Backup woes
- Writing pages offline, some of the time
- Gallery software replaced
- Writing alone, together
- Along the Aare from Büren to Solothurn
- Monster, Horte und Schätze
- The potential of interaction
- Posting to Oddµ from Emacs
- scdoc mode
- Wiki culture
- Struggling with cooperation
- Different forms of exchange
- Recent Changes is back
- Phoebe lessons learned for Oddmu
- Oddmuse lessons learned for Oddµ
- What to do with the time we have left
- Search engines, the deal is off
- Mysterious empty Copyright files appearing
- Hiking up the Gemmi
- An overview over the Oddmu man pages
- Faces for goblins and bugbears
- COVID-19 is not over
- Surviving and succumbing to poison in-game
- A bot for the OSR Discord Server
- Orks, Höllenhunde, Balrog
- Web mentions vs. referrals
- Generating forward indexes for Oddµ
- 50% GDP destruction somewhere between 2070 and 2090
- Linking fediverse accounts in Oddµ
- How to index pages for Oddµ
- Oddµ wiki syntax
- How to manually curate a feed for Oddµ
- I have no faith in demonstrations
- Oddmuse to Oddmu conversion
- Oddµ memory consumption
- 2023-08-26 Paywalls
- 2023-08-26 iOS and Basic Auth
- 2023-08-24 Oddµ or Oddmu
- 2023-08-19 Der Rauchberg ruht
- 2023-08-18 Taking down Phoebe for the moment
- 2023-08-18 Comments on other blogs
- 2023-08-16 Chat bots
- 2023-08-14 Malazan, again
- 2023-08-13 Random generators on wiki pages
- 2023-08-12 Ein Multiversum für Alrik
- 2023-08-10 Turn Tracking
- 2023-08-10 Block the Ad Block Blockers
- 2023-08-09 Defending a village against raiders
- 2023-08-07 The nature of treasure
- 2023-08-07 Honour
- 2023-08-03 Appenzell
- 2023-08-02 Orc camp mechanics
- 2023-08-02 MapTool
- 2023-08-01 Mixed-level parties
- 2023-08-01 How to start cooking
- 2023-07-31 Zürich
- 2023-07-31 St. Gallen
- 2023-07-30 Aargau
- 2023-07-29 Players creating quests for players
- 2023-07-27 Getting started with a megadungeon
- 2023-07-22 Episode 49
- 2023-07-19 Torture in fiction
- 2023-07-19 Seemannssprache für Dict
- 2023-07-19 OpenThesaurus für den Dict Server local einrichten
- 2023-07-16 Bots crawling my sites
- 2023-07-15 Open table trade-offs
- 2023-07-11 Thinking about switching away from Oddmuse
- 2023-06-28 Reduced Site Functionality
- 2023-06-25 No differences
- 2023-06-21 Books for conservative teenagers
- 2023-06-16 Reinventing search
- 2023-06-16 Reddit alternatives
- 2023-06-14 How do you prep?
- 2023-06-11 Upgrading Debian Bullseye (11) to Bookworm (12)
- 2023-06-09 Social media presence
- 2023-06-05 Text wrapping a mail or new message
- 2023-06-02 Gemini and curl
- 2023-05-29 Net news
- 2023-05-26 Net news is not the dark net
- 2023-05-25 ed
- 2023-05-24 Violence
- 2023-05-24 News group peering
- 2023-05-22 A read-only web front-end for a news server
- 2023-05-21 INN, again
- 2023-05-17 Net News
- 2023-05-11 The logic of accumulation
- 2023-05-10 Magic swords
- 2023-05-08 Episode 48 Elephants
- 2023-04-29 Write your own table-driven generator
- 2023-04-29 Short 2d6 games
- 2023-04-27 Myrkheim people
- 2023-04-23 No bards
- 2023-04-16 Myrkheim
- 2023-04-11 Going down
- 2023-03-27 House rules for Halberds & Helmets
- 2023-03-25 Podcast numbers
- 2023-03-24 Multi-referee campaigns
- 2023-03-24 Episode 47
- 2023-03-19 Self-help for people running role-playing games
- 2023-03-07 The shadow world
- 2023-03-07 A vision for search
- 2023-03-04 A dice roller app for the phone
- 2023-02-28 On being an ally
- 2023-02-28 Collecting links about skills
- 2023-02-26 Episode 46
- 2023-02-24 Raspberri Pi but for real
- 2023-02-22 Adapting the game
- 2023-02-21 Ein Rollenspiel Podcast Planet
- 2023-02-20 Internet Office Hours, a new podcast
- 2023-02-16 Episode 45
- 2023-02-12 Family
- 2023-02-10 Butlerian Jihad
- 2023-02-08 Player goals
- 2023-02-07 Barbarians come to town
- 2023-02-04 systemd and my bot
- 2023-02-04 After the session
- 2023-02-03 Non-player characters
- 2023-02-02 Running the first session
- 2023-02-01 Folk D&D
- 2023-01-31 Preparation for the first game
- 2023-01-27 Adventures and Children
- 2023-01-24 Massive multiplayer text adventures still exist
- 2023-01-22 Advice for running a long campaign
- 2023-01-20 Why do I keep writing short games?
- 2023-01-20 The power of questions
- 2023-01-20 Suggesting adventures but not writing them
- 2023-01-17 Star Wars
- 2023-01-17 Knives and Halberts and Bastionland
- 2023-01-13 Your own random generator app
- 2023-01-13 Do better
- 2023-01-13 A stand-alone web page as a Generator
- 2023-01-09 Do not overthink treasure placement
- 2023-01-07 Halberts and Knives
- 2023-01-06 Not in the mood for D&D
- 2023-01-05 The OGL Mess
- 2023-01-04 Getting some 78rpm music
- 2023-01-03 No faith in people
- 2023-01-01 The Year of Blogs on the Desktop
- 2023-01-01 How to illustrate your own stuff