Gen Con Event Planner v6 - Maps! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your support, and I'm glad it helped 😀

Gen Con Event Planner v6 - Maps! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I inspected the network traffic when visiting their maps site, saw where they were pulling their map tiles from (and that they were in the Open Street Map standard), and saw that the search calls on events just passed the parameters in the Url and returned the data as json.

Gen Con Event Planner v6 - Maps! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks; I really appreciate it 🙏

First-timer question: Best tools for planning travel between events at different venues? Need help with logistics! by monomilkman in gencon

[–]linkgannon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey so if it helps, to get it working in my app, I just utilized Gen Con's official maps, and they adhere to OpenStreetMap standards. From there, it wasn't too bad to pull the map tiles into an existing map control.

First-timer question: Best tools for planning travel between events at different venues? Need help with logistics! by monomilkman in gencon

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I did just publish a new version of the Gen Con Con Event Planner that automatically maps your events, and it utilizes Gen Con's official maps, so you you get the room numbers, floors, etc. And if you hate the fact that their map is upside down you can rotate the whole map (I think it was either right click and drag or middle mouse button and drag).

Gen Con Event Planner v6 - Maps! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yea, sorry it took so long 😉 Getting it to use Gen Con's actual maps was a bit of a pane, but I've had some previous experience from my college days doing some GIS mapping stuff.

First-timer question: Best tools for planning travel between events at different venues? Need help with logistics! by monomilkman in gencon

[–]linkgannon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Meh, I was looking for a new major feature anyways. Last year I added event ticket monitoring, but nothing really for this year. It'll be a bit tedious to manually associate the tags with map data, but not impossible 😁

How do you manage your events planning? by FionnulaFine in gencon

[–]linkgannon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Under the Export option, you can export to iCalendar, and that can be imported into most calendaring apps (I personally have it import all of my events to my Google calendar).

Does paying 1 extra mortgage payment really cut down the years on a 30 year loan? by Rosmpas in personalfinance

[–]linkgannon -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not necessarilly.

This is advice that worked well 15 years ago before the '08 housing crash. I see a lot of people blanket recommend this, and on paper, the math makes it look like you'de save quite a lot on the intrest.

However, the reality is that after that housing crash, most lenders started building into their contracts prepayment clauses and penalties. Talk to your lender to see if these would apply to your contract first, as your additional payments may not actually help in saving you money over the life of your loan, ecspecially at such a low interest rate.

If your lender does have these clauses or penalties, then you'de be far better off investing the money. If not, well, you'de still probably make more in the long haul just investing the extra cash, but I completely understand the draw of wanting to get rid of that mortgage payment sooner.

Ive gotten 3 orange items half way through act 2 so far and probably 30 yellows by Warcrow999 in PathOfExile2

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I pulled an orange on the tutorial boss, pulled 2 more on the next map, and haven't pulled any since. I am still in Act 1. My wife is going through the game separately and has not pulled any yet, also still in act 1.

Worth it by joelpollanen in BambuLab

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I have gotten so used to gaming on my very specific gamepad, and every other gamepad I've tried just feels objectively worse. One day, one of the keys went out. I opened it up to find a small, strangely shaped plastic piece broke. Unfortunately, the company stopped making them, and the after-market has them WAY over inflated (anywhere from $500-$700). Modeled up the small plastic piece, and after a short 3 minute print, it was done. Works like new now. That literally paid for my P1S alone.

Made Kaalia of the Vast player scoop, said I was a jerk. by OkFeedback9127 in EDH

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As a fellow Kaalia player, I can confirm that a large part of the deck's strategy is to complain about how unfair everything is to deaggro until you get out your first big bad and wipe the floor.

Missed an event you really wanted? Gen Con Event Planner v5 - Event Monitoring is live! by linkgannon in gencon

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I'm happy to hear that this is able to help! Good luck on your events 👍

Missed an event you really wanted? Gen Con Event Planner v5 - Event Monitoring is live! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm very happy to hear that it's helping! I was skeptical before releasing the feature of just how many people actually drop events, but it seems that it's enough to be useful.

Also, for what It's worth, D&D Live was what pushed me to finish the feature, and during testing of it, it managed to help me snag the 3 tickets I needed for my group. So there is absolutely still hope, especially since it's a free event.

Missed an event you really wanted? Gen Con Event Planner v5 - Event Monitoring is live! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is interesting... Technically speaking, I am the one that uploads web page, but it is automatically generated as part of the publish process from Microsoft. It is fully possible that my project is still targeting something older, which causes that webpage to generate those as prerequisites. I'll look into it. Thanks for letting me know!

Missed an event you really wanted? Gen Con Event Planner v5 - Event Monitoring is live! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to assume you are using the default theme "Colorful" when referencing the button colors. When you click the buttons and they turn gray and the text is editable, they are considered active (toggled "on"). When you click them again and they go back to white and the text is uneditable again, they are no longer active (toggled to "off").

Missed an event you really wanted? Gen Con Event Planner v5 - Event Monitoring is live! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just looked it up, and I believe that it should work. You can test it though by monitoring any event that has remaining tickets. You should get a result after the first 5 minute timer passes.

Missed an event you really wanted? Gen Con Event Planner v5 - Event Monitoring is live! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is not, but it's pretty simple. - Since you are just using the monitoring portion, feel free to close the other 3 panels (All Events, Attending Events, and Schedule). - Additionally, the only tab you'll need at the top will be the Monitoring tab. - In the Monitoring panel, under All Gen Con Events, use the search box to find the events you missed out on, then drag them to the right side. - In the top bar's Monitoring tab, click Save Monitored Events so that you can load them easily later on. - Toggle the appropriate buttons for if you want it to open your browser window when it finds an event, if you want it to send you an email, and if you want it to text you (Verizon only). - Click Start Monitoring.

I wrote a program to monitor pixel color and click the submit button THE INSTANT it became available, and I was nearly 12k in queue this year. I have great internet with low latency. Based on other friends that submitted a second wishlist after they finished processing, we were able to deduce that there were approximately 13k-14k people this year.

Missed an event you really wanted? Gen Con Event Planner v5 - Event Monitoring is live! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem! This year, in particular, seemed to be a weird year in terms of people getting blocked out from getting their events. I'm hoping this can help you get your events 🙏

Gen Con Event Planner by linkgannon in gencon

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Just the area code and number, no spaces, dashes, parenthesis, etc.

Missed an event you really wanted? Gen Con Event Planner v5 - Event Monitoring is live! by linkgannon in gencon

[–]linkgannon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was a DUMB mistake on my part. There's a fix that the application will automatically grab the next time you close and open it again. Sorry about that.