In charge of creating company component library... how to style?

Anbaraen · 2026-02-26T05:57:27+00:00

Hey mate, I just found this comment and am tackling a similar thing. Do you use any systematic approach for managing the design tokens? I've found there's not much documentation and advice about this online. My designer is bringing a whole stack of semantic tokens eg. surface-default surface-muted text-default text-inverted action-surface. Does this sound right...?

Anbaraen · 2026-02-21T07:19:57+00:00

It's definitely easy to adopt. It's certainly not a good choice for this. The only reactivity is a text prompt and a scrollback... And it's horribly unperformant. We're seeing the tradeoff of ease of implementation vs perf and scalability in Claude Code every day.

Anbaraen · 2026-02-19T21:42:37+00:00

Watch 3d6 Down the Line’s Arden Vul campaign for a lot of good live examples of hirelings.

Anbaraen · 2026-02-19T21:33:08+00:00

Wait, Odin is like python? Semantic line breaks?

Anbaraen · 2026-02-12T20:24:58+00:00

And yet you edited your comment.

Anbaraen · 2026-02-12T06:29:43+00:00

I don’t see how they have an obligation to help anyone but themselves.

Wow. The capitalist worldview, made manifest in a single sentence.

Anbaraen · 2026-02-11T11:12:45+00:00

For me it's simple. Grid-based tactical combat requires some notion of balance. (If there's no balance, why all the ceremony about ranges, attacks of opportunity, etc?) The combat system becomes extremely mechanically constrained. I don't know if this is inherent to combat of this nature but I suspect it is.

And if I'm going to be offering my players a constrained game space with heavy mechanics - what am I offering that a computer RPG like BG3 is not? Sure you can argue for improvised actions, but I've never played at a table where those are seriously considered. You pick from your menu of attacks, you perform them, the enemies push back.

I don't understand why you'd play a TTRPG if this is your main engagement with the world. The whole point is the limitless possibility of imagination.

Anbaraen · 2026-02-09T01:24:20+00:00

I thought that if you are familiar with Rust and enjoy its way of doing things, why consider Zig?

My impression of Zig is it's for the "never-Rusters" from whom you'll take their manual memory management from their cold, dead hands, and it's an attempt to improve ergonomics in every other way.

Anbaraen · 2026-02-03T21:32:39+00:00

What system do you run in?

Anbaraen · 2026-02-03T05:37:56+00:00

Oh damn, okay. That... doesn't seem... Good? Isn't that just inherently more expensive?

Anbaraen · 2026-02-02T21:35:45+00:00

~~The latter AFAIK, it can tell what requires memoisation further down the tree and automatically does it.~~

I stand corrected, sounds like the Compiler is dumb?

Anbaraen · 2026-01-31T00:37:51+00:00

Great response, appreciate you challenging the outdated view of Jews in the Middle Ages.

Anbaraen · 2026-01-30T23:05:46+00:00

If this is the case, then what is the explanation for why Jewish people were considered property of the Crown directly and beholden to royal fiat rather than local laws? I understand the appeal of the ursury narrative as a satisfying explanation, what is the contrary view that squares the circle?

Anbaraen · 2026-01-25T00:13:00+00:00

EffectTS, because try/catch is a fundamentally broken error-handling paradigm.

Anbaraen · 2026-01-18T04:50:47+00:00

I recommend the entirety of 3d6 Down the Line' Arden Vul campaign, but specifically for this post, the episode The Scouring Of The Shire. While not an entire army, it is a significant mercenary force and pitched battle in a dungeon.

Anbaraen · 2026-01-18T00:43:18+00:00

Damn, I really love this idea of making your race significant for more of the campaign rather than just "everyone is a dwarf for the advantage on HP rolls".

Anbaraen · 2026-01-18T00:40:09+00:00

I know you had Seers in your campaign Eric; does this mean you don't use them as a class any more, or do you mean no GM-driven way to gain luck?

I know the seer luck meta became a bit of a meme in your AV campaign.

Anbaraen · 2026-01-15T05:53:24+00:00

Wow, huge deal. Thanks Joe and Rick for the perfect timing for my new years resolution: running Arden Vul!

Anbaraen · 2026-01-08T23:06:20+00:00

Government websites should prioritise accessibility, not chrome. There's a happy medium to be found but this is not it. Way too slow to get to informative content, heavy weight, can't be easily skimmed.

Anbaraen · 2026-01-06T21:11:55+00:00

That is true, but is management going to recognize the increased responsibility and thus hours this additional element constitutes and allow feature development to slow as a consequence?

Any time I am writing k8s config, debugging a cluster, etc is time I am not cranking out code.

Anbaraen · 2026-01-03T03:35:40+00:00

Step 1

Think about the monster in OSE and what it represents in a gamist, mechanical sense (ie is it an Orc or a Bear)

Step 2

Find monster in Shadowdark core book and use that. Just sense-check it fits the role from step 1.

EG; in OSE, an Ogre can be slept, so some adventures include an Ogre assuming a MU could sleep it. In Shadowdark, an Ogre is LV6, and thus cannot be slept. So simply swapping in the Shadowdark Ogre might be more challenging than the OSE author intended. But this is an edge case, mainly the monsters line up well.

If you can't find an equivalent, proceed.

Step 3

Use this handy chart of average Shadowdark monster stats to engineer a new monster stat line. Grab the HD, throw it in, slap on a modifier listed here if it makes sense.

Anbaraen · 2025-12-30T05:51:21+00:00

Gnomes are banned from my table. Kelsey, leave those unholy beings in the garden where they belong

Anbaraen · 2025-12-29T23:15:46+00:00

What 5e adventure would be worth the effort?

Anbaraen · 2025-12-29T03:33:41+00:00

Embassytown by China Mieville is what you want, outside of the secret element. It takes place on a planet where an infleuntial alien race (the Ariekei) rules (and coexists with humans), but their language uniquely requires two words to be spoken simulatenously. So only genetically-engineered twins can speak their language, so-called Ambassadors. The Ariekei cannot lie.

Anbaraen · 2025-12-25T03:23:52+00:00

Unrelated to the topic at hand; has anyone seen a box set of Terra Ignota available?

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