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My highly subjective and ever evolving list of games to check out at Spiel'15

Posted on September 25, 2015

This year's Spiel in Essen will be a bit amputated for me unfortunately. Even more important to arrive prepared! So, I made a list. Maybe it can be of interest for others. Who knows. (A BGG Geek List with the same info:... [Read More]
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Life, death, ghosts, xkcd, d3, and flowing data

Posted on September 23, 2015

This morning I came across this XKCD strip. (I hope someone actually makes that app... Although with enough parallel ghosts chances are that you will lose more than you win, of course.)Later in the day Flowing Data published this fascinating visualisation of,... [Read More]
Tags:
- JavaScript
- Programming
- D3
- hack
- visualization
Scan with a Canon MP560 without ink

Posted on September 13, 2015

So, today I needed to scan something. And our Canon MP560 printer was out of ink... The beast never got past a screen saying "Ink tanks empty" on this and that colour, and thus wouldn't let me scan. Even remotely from my... [Read More]
Tags:
- howto
- Hardware
Top n games of the year, where n seems to turn out to be 10...

Posted on January 12, 2015

Another year has bitten the dust, has ceased to be, is over and done for, is an ex-year, is pushing up the daisies, etc, so here’s a list of the tabletop games that impressed me the most in 2014.SuburbiaThe first real discovery... [Read More]
Tags:
- twocents
- boardgaming
- bestof
- game
- 2014
Introducing Noisevote, or "A Democratic Rock Concert"

Posted on July 18, 2014

A little duo I'm part of these days, 1bisHill (What's with the name you ask? It is a long story...), was asked to play some songs at a gathering at my work the other day. (With a guest star from Brazil.) So,... [Read More]
Tags:
- JavaScript
- music making
- Programming
- music
- D3
- Pi
- hack
- Ruby
- web
- visualization
Board Game Geek Data - Sliced and Diced

Posted on February 14, 2014

Inspired by the discovery of the API for the BoardGameGeek website, I decided to play around with some of its data by some Ruby and JavaScript scripting. One thing I wanted to look at was the interconnectedness of game mechanics, but first... [Read More]
Tags:
- Programming
- boardgaming
- D3
- hack
- gist
- source code
- API
- Ruby
- Databases
Sip-reviews of newish Board Games I tried for the first time in 2013

Posted on January 31, 2014

Since the deadline for wishing people a Happy New Year here in France is not before 24h00 the 31st of January, I figured I would take the opportunity to try to jot down some musings on some of the new board games... [Read More]
Tags:
- twocents
- boardgaming
- bestof
- game
- 2013

My highly subjective and ever evolving list of games to check out at Spiel'15

Life, death, ghosts, xkcd, d3, and flowing data

Scan with a Canon MP560 without ink

Top n games of the year, where n seems to turn out to be 10...

Introducing Noisevote, or "A Democratic Rock Concert"

Board Game Geek Data - Sliced and Diced

Sip-reviews of newish Board Games I tried for the first time in 2013