Hello!

This is The Sam Zone, a place for me to post my stuff! Particularly stuff that’s personal, incomplete, and open source.

This is the seed for a little digital garden.

So thanks for coming! If you’ve got questions or tips, @ me on fedi. :)

I ran my first one-shot in TinyD6 and it was Amazing


Back in late December, I joined some old friends in a regular D&D campaign. It’s been a really good time. The group is great, and the DM is really creative. I’ve been having a blast learning all the intricacies and quirks of D&D 5e. After getting a handle on that character and creating a couple of other characters for fun, I got the inspiration for a one shot. It was a couple of cool ideas from a pulp SciFi book I enjoyed as a kid.…

2023 Office Tour!


Hello! I recently finished my office after about 6 months of work. I want to post a quick tour, mostly so I can look back on it down the road. But if y’all are reading that’s cool too! This is going to be mostly photos and little mini-reviews of some of the stuff I have in here. Here’s an overview just so the space makes sense. My office is in the attic of my home.…

Minetest: A Game that's MINE


I’ve played Minecraft extremely casually for awhile. Recently I’ve moved to a linux main computer Tried out Minetest(specefically Mineclone2), its surprisingly good! I’ve never really plated a FOSS game, so my expectations were really low. I saw some stuff that said “don’t go into it expecting Minecraft” but I was trying to see how close to Minecraft it could get But it got pretty much exactly to Minecraft. I’m very casual, so I don’t really care if pork chops aren’t quite the right color.…

Introducing Beryl: a Markdown Todo List


tl;dr: I want to make Obsidian, but for todo lists. It’s a spiritual successor to todo.txt I lean pretty hard on todo lists. I’ve been a heavy Todoist user for about 7 years. In that time I’ve changed pretty much every other software I use, except for Todoist. I really like its simplicity, and the ability to ‘blind enter’ a task with only the keyboard. But Todoist, at the end of the day, is a proprietary project.…