Principal Engineer @ Shopify (opinions my own). Avid reader, somewhat a writer. Tech, media, writing, time/life phylosophy. AMA: sebastiano@hey.com
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From yesterday Twitch Stream: another illustration for The Boiling God RPG by @merlinoseb #theboilinggod
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Combined Ionic and AWS Amplify today for a personal project I am building. I am quite impressed. In a few minutes I have a full API up and running with user management, push notifications and CI/CD. Wow. It took me a few days last time with Ionic and AWS managed directly.
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"In short, I daydreamed a lot, and my father thought it was a waste of time. Every time, I apologized for my daydreaming. But was I supposed to be sorry? Was it really a waste of time?"
sebastianomerlino.com/shorts…
I just reviewed the latest (refreshed) mock-ups from @earendil1789 for the Boiling God manual and they look great (no sneak peek this time though). Rather than just a journal, what we'll have is an old book with annotations and clips. Going to work on a quickstart now.
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In the time he wrote 16 scenes today, I barely decided on the topic of my next essay...
PS: looking forward to blast through Skyward - I at least can read almost at the same speed he writes.
Last chapter finished! Only two scenes remaining, which will together make up the epilogue. Last update to come soon!
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I just migrated my personal website to @jekyllrb with no loss of functionalities. It is now hosted as static content on S3 behind CloudFront. So much easier to think about it now vs the previous wp + apache + varnish stack.
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Sebastiano Merlino retweeted
Gallery 1064, the online art gallery that I founded, is finally open to the public! 🤩
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Check the website gallery.com and the announcement for upcoming shows ;) #SciArt #scicomm #gallery1064
We are officially open to the public! Check the website and let us know what you think!!!
gallery1064.com #sciart #gallery1064 #scienceart #artgallery #sciencetwitter
Read another couple of RPG core manuals today to take notes on how others have organized their system dedicated sections. Incredibly similar to the way system designs are organized in software engineering as well.
I guess clarity is clarity, after all.
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Hey! Just for today, my first book, A Wish Too Dark And Kind, is on sale on Amazon at $0.99.
If you haven't already, this is the best price ever and likely in a while.
amazon.com/dp/1737019213
#amreading #amreadingfantasy #fantasy
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Spent the day writing an example of game to add to The Boiling God manual. It looks like Laura, Matthew, Lily, and Julia are going to keep me company while I write this manual.
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I went ahead and did it... bought The Elden Ring, so now all my goals for 2022 are out of the window!
Not much to update you folks on. Today I did not progress on any project, but spent the day walking, hitting the weights, cooking, and playing games (all with the wife). It was a great day; I should be more unproductive more often.
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About two thousands words today; not as much as I'd want to push through while on vacation, but enough to go to sleep content.
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The Heisenberg cat...you might know where he is, but not the mischief he is planning.
He shaped his own box, by the way.
And yes, I was sleepy and wrote the wrong equation, so no Schrodinger (that also guarantees my best buddy is alive and well!)
Today, I wrote an entire chapter on what it means to be an RPG player and how to play together. Rereading it, it makes it sound like a much better person than me wrote it...
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There should definitely be more of it in the games space - at times, I wonder if the game creators themselves could do something to push it through their creations.
Fortunately, there are communities within gaming where people analyze the medium as you describe. 1/5
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4/5 Fact is, those games keep inspiring critics to analyze them exactly in the way you describe. And then the critics that grew on these games bring the same type of deep critique to other franchises (e.g. Halo, Resident Evil, and even Pokemon).