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Storytellers RPG Solo Play Oracles

This is a Python implementation of the solo play oracles from the STORYTELLERS RPG by Candlenaut. See the solo play info, pp. 59-60, for details.

Basic Oracle

The basic oracle answers yes/no questions. The oracle rolls two d6 dice, the first designated the Yes die, and the second the No die. If the Yes die is higher than the No die, the oracle has answered "yes". It's lower, the oracle has answered "no". A tie indicates that the oracle is uncertain. The difference between Yes and No how true the response is

Things I've done to pretty up my terminal

installed bat
added $ZSH_CUSTOM/cat-alias.zsh cat="/PATH/TO/bat"
set omz theme to bureau

Some Rust cross-compiling resources for Raspberry Pi

As I work on setting up a Pi Zero W as a little portable system for some lightweight dev, I'm running the challenge of compiling certain binaries on-system. To say that the Pi Zero W's resources are limited is an understatement; it can take days to compile something that might take minutes on a more robust system.

What I wanted was to cross-compile Microsoft Edit. I got it working by installing rust on my Raspberry Pi 400 with the 64-bit OS, then adding the appropriate target:

rustup target add arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf

Static Site Generators

I have a couple of projects that I am working on that I think will be ideal for a static site generator (SSG). As I evaluate my options, I'll capture some notes here.

There's a whole list of SSGs on the Jamstack site.

Standslone SSGs

Jekyll - Ruby; one of the OG SSGs
Blot - Javascropt (mostly) available as a service or deployed locally

CircuitPython Blinka Guides

Blinka is a compatibility layer for CircuitPython that provides the CircuitPython APIs for other flavors of Python, including CPython and MicroPython.

There are several Blinka compatible boards out there. Plus, with the right hardware—such as an FT232H or MCP2221 breakout, or even a Raspberry Pi Pico or another RP2040 dev board—Blinka works with PCs running Linux, MacOS, or Windows.

Blinka Documentation & Source

Blinka is maintained on Github:

Downloading a bunch of videos from TikTok on macOS

First, get homebrew if you don't already have it.

Then, in your terminal, get things set up:

cd ~/Downloads
mkdir tiktok_stuff
cd tiktok_stuff

	from machine import Pin
	from neopixel import NeoPixel
	import time

	pixels = NeoPixel(Pin(0), 12, bpp=4)

	WHITE = (0,0,0,255)
	RED = (255,0,0,0)
	GREEN = (0,255,0,0)
	BLUE = (0,0,255,0)

	import asyncio
	import time

	import board

	import neopixel
	from rainbowio import colorwheel

	import adafruit_lsm303_accel
	import adafruit_lis2mdl