Ernst Rullmann

Truth is a complex subject, with many parts. It is not a simple answer of right or wrong, especially when humans get involved. Consider that we can have statements that are correct (i.e. are consistent under a set of beliefs) but not true (i.e are not correct under the beliefs we have about the real world). For example “Joe Biden is the 45th president of the United States” is both correct and true. Read More

blog, ai, long-form, truth, morality

Sun, Dec 4, 2022

The Cart

The cart shifted and rocked as it made its way along the old road through the Carpathian Moors and down towards Drauth. Like a ship on the sea, I would have thrown up from the nausea, but I had barely eaten for two days, so there was little to give. Looking down at my wrists, I could see the silver threads of Weft-runes tracing through the silk ribbon that bound them. Read More

writing, fiction, thecart

Sun, Nov 6, 2022

Blood Knights and Death Korps

It’s been a few months since my last update, but I’ve been busy working on a few squads from both Games Workshops Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 lines. Namely the Blood Knights, a Death Korps rider from Forge World, and the new Death Korps models from the Kill Team box set. The Blood Knights were started with an airbrushed basecoat. I tried to get a fade across the armour to bring out its shape from a distance. Read More

painting, warhammer, age-of-sigmar, oil-paints

Sun, Oct 17, 2021

Adding Hugo Aliases and Templates

Recently I added some command line aliases to more quickly add new posts to Hugo, the static site generator that powers this blog. So for example I can type hnp New Post and it will run hugo new --kind post-bundle posts/2021-06-19-new-post. Then using Hugo’s archetypes it will create a new blog post in the format I like, with the date prefixing the folder name. I used a bash function instead of a true alias to allow me to write out the titles in plain english.

hugo, programming

Sat, Jun 19, 2021

Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

Geeky deep dive by Bert Hubert into mRNA vaccines work, and how they are like computer programs that hack (in a good way 😅) your cells to print the protiens needed for protection from COVID.

quickpost

Sat, Jun 19, 2021

Kharadron Skywardens and Thunderers

Recently got back into the metaphorical painting saddle by painting the Skywardens from the Kharadron Overlords start collecting set. I really liked how this scheme came together. Click to embiggen Previous Next The base metallic bronze is an airbrushed coat of Liquitex Iridescent Rich Bronze over black primer. Then washed with GW’s Cryptek Armourshade Gloss, dry brushed with Sycorax Bronze and highlighted with Canoptek Alloy. Read More

warhammer, painting, kharadronoverlords, ageofsigmar

Thu, Jun 3, 2021

How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life

Excellent NYTimes article covering the advances in science and medicine over the past century that have doubled the average human lifespan. I wonder if we could make similar advances in education as well.

quickpost

Sun, May 23, 2021

Further adventures in iPad coding

Coding on an iOS device (in my case, a 9.7 inch iPad Pro) can be frustrating, but I’ve found some tricks to get things done. For Advent of Code I have been working in rust, and while home for the holidays, I am developing from an iPad. As such my requirements for development are as follows: An iPad based text editor A way to build rust code A way to quickly test rust code and see the results Ideally auto-completion for rust code While iPad code editing apps exist, as well as some capable IDEs (looking at you Pythonista), you usually are confined to writing your own code in the app and using a few standard libraries. Read More

programming, ios, ipad, ish, vim, git

Wed, Dec 23, 2020

Crafting D&D Adventures and Maps

For the past few weeks I’ve been Dungeon Master (DM) for a virtual Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign with some family and friends. It’s been a lot of fun acting out characters, world building, and crafting adventures for my players to walk through. In my experience there are three main things a good adventure needs: locations, characters, and monsters. I thought I’d share how I built each of these elements for my players to walk through, and the tools I used to build them. Read More

dnd, DungeonsAndDragons, DungeonMaster, adventures, maps

Sun, Nov 22, 2020

Judiciar

Finished painting the Judiciar from the Indomitus box set! This guy is a beast in combat, can’t wait to see him on the tabletop. I wasn’t a fan of the original head, so I gave him a suitably scary one from the Reavers set.

novamarines, warhammer, painting

Sun, Oct 4, 2020