POSSE is in the air
POSSE is in the air! Molly White recently published a great primer on the POSSE philosophy, so it’s time to do some rare advertising of my own tool, SiloRider
Ludovic Chabant
Projects
Here are some of my coding projects:
- PieCrust: a fast and powerful static website generator and lightweight CMS.
- Wikked: a wonderful Git/Hg-based wiki engine.
- Gutentags: a tags file management plugin for Vim.
- Lawrencium: a Mercurial plugin for Vim.
You can find more projects of mine on BOLT80, my coding portfolio.
Contact
To get in touch, toots or emails are best (depending on the length of message). Here is a more exhaustive list:
- Email: ludovic@chabant.com
- Fediverse/Mastodon: @ludovic@chabant.social
- Twitter: @ludovicchabant
- Facebook: Ludovic Chabant
- LinkedIn: Ludovic Chabant
- Cohost: ludovicchabant
- Pillowfort: ludovicchabant
- Hive: ludovicchabant
Latest Articles
I post articles infrequently on The Stochastic Game, my personal blog. Here are the most recent entries:
Quick Look: Rosewood Abbey
I got my copy of Rosewood Abbey, a #TTRPG based on The Name Of The Rose and Cadfael! Here’s a quick look!
Discontinuing PieCrust and Wikked
There haven’t been any blog posts about some of my open-source projects in a while and the reason for this is two-fold. First, I’ve been lazy about that side of my hobbies while I’ve been re-allocating my free time to writing and illustrating roleplaying game books. Second, I’ve actually discontinued a couple of my main […]
On TTRPG Reviews and Actual Plays
My friends over at the Titterpigs podcast did a recent episode on “played vs unplayed reviews”, and in a sort of interesting synchronicity, the Modern Mythos podcast just released an episode on actual plays. It’s interesting because I see all three types of content as being on the same scale of “game prep”. Let me […]
Avoiding Playing Law Enforcement in Delta Green
Every wondered how to play Delta Green without playing as one of those “problematic” US Law Enforcement agencies? Here is some advice for you! #TTRPG #DeltaGreen
“Role-Playing Games Do Not Emulate Genres”
Travis Miller wrote this interesting article on his Grumpy Wizard blog about “genre emulation” in TTRPGs. He basically argues that games don’t “emulate” a genre as much as they are part of that genre: To “emulate” is to imitate, simulate, or copy a thing without being the thing itself. If you are running a game […]
The Unreal Engine Cinematics Team has Job Openings
My team at Epic Games is looking for a software engineer! We are the Cinematics team inside the Unreal Engine team, and we develop, among other things, the Sequencer tool.
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Latest Microblogging
Here's my microblogging feed, published on my blog, and syndicated to Twitter and Mastodon:
I’ve been working on-and-off on a “samurai vs yokai” #TTRPG game for a little while now, and every time I do some research, I find yet another existing or upcoming game in that same genre. So I increasingly wonder if I should just abandon my idea and play one of those…
I voted for the BC Provincial Elections! Pretty easy pick in my riding since the only two candidates are the NDP incumbent, and a BC Conservative guy whose party is a newly formed mess with several bad actors, a problematic leader, and a program that looks like a half-baked copy of the opposition.
The “pharmacare” bill has just passed into Canadian law, making medication like insulin or birth control covered under the public health system. Remember this was an NDP/Liberal alliance project. Conservatives were mostly absent, and in fact gave spurious reasons to not implement it. The current Conservative party has had very little to contribute to the country for years.
“Guide dog owner says Louie may be her last unless behaviour of ‘service dogs’ changes”: I’m a regular donor to CNIB (whose president is interviewed here) and it’s sad to learn that people with badly trained service dogs are making life difficult for those with good service dogs.
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