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The Weekly Challenge 373: There Is No Equality Without Division #Perl #RustLang #Postscript #PerlWeeklyChallenge #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/The_Weekly_Challenge_373__There_Is_No_Equality_Without_Division.html

The Weekly Challenge 373: There Is No Equality Without Division

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved poking about with lists. (Note that this ends today.)

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Roger BW 😷1d ago

Thirsty Meeples May 2026 #BoardGames #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Thirsty_Meeples_May_2026.html

Thirsty Meeples May 2026

Back to the boardgame café after a gap caused by illness.

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Roger BW 😷2d ago

The Marriage Method, Mimi Matthews #Books #Romance #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/The_Marriage_Method__Mimi_Matthews.html

The Marriage Method, Mimi Matthews

2025 Victorian romance. Miles Quincey, a crusading newspaper editor, has been looking too hard into the Academy, so its deputy headmistress, Nell Trewlove, is sent to fob him off. An incident with a cat caught in her crinoline, and an accidental witness ready to believe the worst, leaves her fatally compromised, and all she can do is marry Miles…

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Roger BW 😷3d ago

A GURPS Template Expander #TTRPG #GURPS #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/A_GURPS_Template_Expander.html

A GURPS Template Expander

You can't have random character generation in GURPS. There are just too many things to take into account. Well, up to a point.

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Roger BW 😷4d ago

Secrets Typed In Blood, Stephen Spotswood #Books #Mystery #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Secrets_Typed_In_Blood__Stephen_Spotswood.html

Secrets Typed In Blood, Stephen Spotswood

2022 mystery, third in its series. Pentecost and Parker are back in New York, where three murders have been committed in the style of a particular crime writer.

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Roger BW 😷5d ago

Wolvercote Games, May 2026 #BoardGames #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Wolvercote_Games__May_2026.html

Wolvercote Games, May 2026

The Oxford Meeples had another quarterly games day, and I had a great time again.

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Roger BW 😷6d ago

Laura (1944) #Movies #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Laura__1944_.html

Laura (1944)

1944 noir, dir. Otto Preminger, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews: IMDb. The dame is dead, blown away with a shotgun at her front door. But who would have done it?

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Roger BW 😷May 10

The Weekly Challenge 372: Space is the Largest Place #Perl #RakuLang #RustLang #Postscript #CrystalLang #Typst #PerlWeeklyChallenge #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/The_Weekly_Challenge_372__Space_is_the_Largest_Place.html

The Weekly Challenge 372: Space is the Largest Place

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various sorts of string mangling. (Note that this ends today.)

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Roger BW 😷May 9

Testimony of Mute Things, Lois McMaster Bujold #Books #Fantasy #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Testimony_of_Mute_Things__Lois_McMaster_Bujold.html

Testimony of Mute Things, Lois McMaster Bujold

2025 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as Chalion). Early in Pen's career, when he's still a sorcerer-physician in Martensbridge, he's attached to his archdivine's party as she travels to judge a temple dispute as the administration adjusts following a transfer of territory in a local war.

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Roger BW 😷May 8

Leaping From Helicopter To Helicopter #TTRPG #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Leaping_From_Helicopter_To_Helicopter.html

Leaping From Helicopter To Helicopter

Leaping from tree to tree is easy. I encountered something in a game which should be rather harder.

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