It’s been two months since the great apocalyptic infrastructure brew-ha-ha that nearly consumed me heart and soul. Since the move to the DreamCompute platform, things have been humming along quite nicely.
Not much to say tonight, except that I’ve been working harder than a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest. Been writing a ton of code and dealing with the emotional tidal ebbs and flows that those activities generate. Most, if not all, genealogy work has been relegated to the back burner. Wikitree added some new data points which will need addressing when I get enthused enough to work on it. I still have my lineage projects in the pipeline, but I haven’t done anything with them in a while.
One nice perk was brought to my attention recently. A couple of years ago, I built a counter sheet proofing tool for New England Simulations back when I was working on their Winter’s Victory game. The tool takes PNG-format images of their counter sheet art and slices them into individual counter graphics based on the dimensions of their die (as in die-cutting). It then, given some parameters, mates the front sides to the back sides. Finally, the system generates some HTML to allow the browser to act as an application that shows the individual counters in a representation of the original counter sheet, except that you can navigate across it and make sure that the back sides match the front sides.
For their latest On Hell’s Highway work, I genericized (<- perfectly cromulent word that) that work into a publicly-available website (login credentials required) that allows remote collaborative proofing of the counter sheet graphics prior to publication. After the site was shared with no less a designer luminary than John Butterfield, he of (On) Hell’s Highway fame, and other works, I was told that he thought that my proofing tool was a nice bit of work (my phrasing).
Not much more to add to this minor update of sorts. It’s the holiday season and I’m looking forward to spending some time with family and relaxing a bit. It’s been an emotional, tumultuous few months.