Grant Butler @grantjbutler@mastodon.social

EWR ✈️ SJC

"He took a potion, though."
"Oh, so he's a Pokémon trainer!" #GrantPlaysDnD

Bard/Blood Hunter: "I need you to use protection, the battlefield is no place for a pregnant woman."
Paladin: "Did someone say protection?"
#GrantPlaysDnD

"Fun is my middle name, baby." #GrantPlaysDnD

"Mmmm, I like a girl who's nimble." #GrantPlaysDnD #DnD

I’ve rolled three natural 1s in this encounter. After the most recent one, I jokingly rage quit from the Discord call. Apparently, I rolled another natural 1 for that. #GrantPlaysDnD #DnD

I keep going back to bird site every once in a while to check up on people that are only on there and aren't on Mastodon, and, boy, it really doesn't take long to remember why I try to use it less and less.

“And now it’s Uller’s turn.”
...
“Oh, right I’m playing Uller!”
#GrantPlaysDnD

For example, if I have an app that shows blog posts, and I want to look at a list of all blog posts, I should only fetch the things I need (title, date posted, number of comments, for example) as a dictionary result type, and never as an array of Post managed objects.

The more I work with Core Data, the more I think I should never be just fetching objects directly; that, instead, I want to be fetching only the data I need and only in the structure I need.

I've seen the UPS truck on my street so many times on the "Follow My Delivery" page, and yet I don't have a new Apple Watch on my wrist yet.

T-5-ish hours until new watch time.

Watched the documentary of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I know we rag on some of the visual effects in that film, and I know that the film was released in 1999, but seeing Macs running Mac OS 8 or 9 kinda makes it sink in and gives me a new appreciation of those visual effects.

“Mammoth, get out of his butt. Wait, I got this. Oh, no. Well, I guess you’re stuck in there now!” #GrantPlaysDnD