Deck building is hard. Building "good" decks with "bad" cards is somewhat harder. Sometimes that "bad" card is the commander.
I'm Drew Knab, senior full-stack developer at directlink. I play trading card games competitively sometimes and make music even less. I live in Syracuse, NY. It's fine. Sometimes I stream on twitch.
Adventures in Deck Building: Kaust, Eyes of the Glade
Deck building is hard. Building "good" decks with "bad" cards is somewhat harder. Sometimes that "bad" card is the commander.
I started playing Magic again.
A Lukewarm Defense of Early Magic: The Gathering Creatures
The early days of Magic are "notorious" for the awful creatures present in the game.
2023 was, by many metrics, my least musical year. Across the board the numbers are glaring. Fewest new artists, genres, scrobbles, and raw minutes. Once again dominated by Boards of Canada and Lana Del Rey. Historically those two groups have made up the bulk of my listening during my professional career. It's easy to put either one on and git a massive amount of work done. Even so, we're looking at historic lows even for BoC.
Writing Custom Loaders and Generators with Fornax
Last time we had an introduction to Fornax loaders and generators. Today we're going to build a custom loader and generator using an external REST API.