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The Updated Weblog Is Go
Welcome to the 5th edition of this web log! For the past decade or so, this website was built with Jekyll. However, in the past few years my hodge podge of an asset pipeline built on Gulp meant that publishing anything started to become very difficult.
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24XX SRD in Finnish
Last year I translated DURF, a rules-light dungeon-fantasy tabletop role-playing game to Finnish. This was made possible by the permissive Creative Commons license on the game. Now I found some time to translate the System Reference Document (SRD) of micro RPG sci-fi series 2400 as well. You can find the translation on Itch.
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Atom IDs, or Unique Identifiers for Blog Posts
Atom feeds add one burden to the publisher, your entries require a lasting, well-formed unique identifier, if you intend to follow the specification. Other formats do not add as strict rules, RSS and JSON Feed only require it to be unique, although JSON Feed relaxes it further to only be locally unique. Both usually advocate for the post’s URL (or permalink), but this isn’t necessarily the best option, because although cool URIs don’t change, in practice there’s very little perma in permalinks.
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Another Year in Books
Since 2020, I’ve been pretty good at completing around 30 books a year. It’s time again for a short rundown of most of the books that I read this year.
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Classic Traveller RPG Character and World Generation
In addition to translating DURF to Finnish, I found myself working on another RPG-related project. And again, it involved a lot of interesting side quests to get it done.
67 more posts can be found in the archive.