Ben Overmyer's Site

In late 2014, I stepped down from my role at Silver Gryphon Games.

I’m starting to use Hugo for blogging now.

Consider the following code snippet: someVar = false; if ( anotherVar >= 1 ) { someVar = true; } Now, consider this rewrite: someVar = ( anotherVar >= 1 ); Both snippets work as designed, so why is the second one better?

2016 was a rough year.

In late 2014, the sole system administrator for the Star Tribune Digital department (let’s call him John) turned in his two-weeks’ notice.

In Ansible 2.1 and later, Ansible will not allow the creation of world-readable temporary files.

This’s about why I quit paying $10/month for a hosted Ghost blog and migrated everything back to a self-hosted WordPress blog.

I’m transitioning away from hosted Ghost back to WordPress.

Yesterday I went on the Google Fi site and signed up for a Nexus 6P and a data plan roughly equivalent to what I spend at Verizon.

Many people (more people than ever before, apparently) are declaring their intention to move away from America permanently if Candidate X wins the election for President of the United States in November.

2015 was a year of big changes for me.

Not too long ago, I got fed up with having to use a ton of different apps to do various things online.

If you’re seeing errors on a server (say, npm complaining about an ENOSPC error, or apt failing to install something) that suggest the hard disk is full, use this guide to resolve the issue.

Well, it’s been about two months since my last post, which ironically was about my intention to write more frequently.

A few days ago, I migrated all of my blog posts from my last primary blog on WordPress.com to this blog.

This post was updated May 14th, 2016 to significantly rework the tutorial.

Making an army list in Age of Sigmar is an unusual process for those of us used to the traditional Games Workshop methods.

Age of Sigmar grabbed the Warhammer Fantasy rulebook, tore it apart, and threw the remains into the fire.

Heroku made their free tier awful.

Well, it happened.

Writing code for a living is a lot like writing for a living, except that your primary audience will never see the words you write.

Some people write blog engines because it’s just one of those things that you do as a web developer.

The end of Q1 2015 should see the first real release of Monk as a publicly-consumable, FOSS product.

I’m planning a MUD, built for my friends and myself.

Friday was eventful.

Took off a day early so I could get to Madison, WI at a leisurely pace.

In June of 2003, I began a journey in a galaxy far, far away.

Despite being a game author with my own system to enjoy, I still love Dungeons & Dragons.

Asherth.

This game took place on Thursday, May 29th at the Fantasy Flight Games Event Center in Roseville, MN.

My employer is hosting an internal Node.js hackathon.

This year will be the year of connections, if everything goes according to plan.

A great deal happened in 2013 for me and my family.

I started playing Rift again, after trying out Everquest 2 and Guild Wars 2 also.

Star Wars Galaxies 2 will most likely never happen, owing to the fact that SOE has publicly stated that it will never work on an MMO based on an external IP again.

I’m writing this just a couple minutes after watching the EverQuest Next reveal video on Twitch.

About a year and a half ago, I started a project to create a sci-fantasy sandbox MMORPG.

The last time I posted about Skyrim, it was shortly after release.

Ten years ago nearly to the day, Star Wars: Galaxies launched to the world.

I’ve been playing Rift a lot lately, and the more I play, the better I understand the ins and outs of being a Warrior.

Villains are the mainstay of any good adventure.

This post presents a prototype profession mechanic we’re working on for Ingenium 2nd Edition.

Today is the last day of March and the last day I’ll be writing about the MMORPG Rift as it applies to tabletop RPGs.

In Rift, there are five ways to acquire new armor and weapons.

After a full year of not playing, yesterday I jumped back into World of Warcraft.

One of the systems near and dear to my heart in MMORPGs is crafting.

I’m joining the vast numbers of bloggers who are publicly declaring their goals for the new year right now.

The Repopulation may be the science fiction sandbox MMORPG that we’ve all been waiting for.

Crafting in MMORPGs is a troublesome, complex issue.

Last week, I left the Guild Wars 2 guild that I’d been in since before launch.