Joel Uckelman

Tip: We're thinking of going to Van Moll Fest next year now that Borefts is over. I've heard that's been as good as Borefts recently.

I spotted you from afar this year, but didn't get a chance to say hello. So, hello!

Vassal 3.7.18 Released VASSAL 3.7.18 Released The Vassal Team is happy to announce the release of Vassal 3.7.18. IMPORTANT If you are using MacOS 14, please ensure you are using 14.4 or later, to avoid a bug in MacOS whic...

Vassal 3.7.18 is released: forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-3-7...

I have newfound sympathy for anyone at sea for days at a time. Our overnight ferry plowed into a gale force headwind for the whole trip. I thought I'd been on rough crossings before and they didn't bother me... I was wrong. I still feel out of sorts and haven't been on the ship for five hours.

I don't know what else I would do. It's the one part of my life where I can accomplish anything.

Vassal 3.7.17 Released Vassal 3.7.17 Released The Vassal Team is happy to announce the release of Vassal 3.7.17. IMPORTANT …

Vassal 3.7.17 is released: forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-3-7...

Why in Prince's funky name did they make Math.round() in JavaScript round all halves toward +∞? I'll bet Math.round(-0.5) == 0 has caused people to waste thousands of hours trying to figure out why simple arithmetic doesn't work as expected.

Neat, I didn't know they had these in Lille! There is a big collection of fortification models like these in one of the attics at L'Invalides in Paris.

And now the forum is back as well.

Thanks, everyone, for your patience.

We're most of the way there with the Vassal server maintenance. You should find that everything save the forum is working again.

We're working through a problem with the forum presently. It should be back later today.

Server down for maintenance on 2025-09-12 Our server, which runs the game server, the forum, the module library, and the rest of the website, will be down for maintenance on 12 September 2025. We expect to start around 10:00 GMT. It’s unclea...

The Vassal server will be down for maintenance tomorrow, 12 September, starting around 10:00 UTC and running until we're finished, which we expect to be in the afternoon sometime.

forum.vassalengine.org/t/server-dow...

We had some extraordinarily tasty russets this year ourselves.

We finished correcting project pages following the Vassal module library conversion. That was a massive boulder to push to the top of the hill.

Thank you to everyone who helped with this.

Now we're chipping away at the remaining unimplemented parts of the module library...

They weren't in a hurry when I met them on one end of the bridge coming toward me, which is surprising considering how much blood was on the guy's hand.

I'm curious how the guy today cut his hand. The dog was calm. The woman he was with seemed weirdly unconcerned, and they didn't appear cross with one another. There wasn't any broken glass anywhere I could see. It was the palm of his hand that was bloody, so presumably he hadn't punched something.

I'm looking forward to next week's blood-soaked rando.

Definitely not the same guy. Last week was a portly middle-aged dude, guy today was rail thin and maybe 20? Same guy would have been *amazing*.

When I got to the other end of the bridge, he was shirtless and chasing what I presume was some random passerby back toward me. He then got in my face, and about ten seconds later was tackled by two cops.

No idea what that was about.

This week, I met a woman, and with her a guy walking a dog, his hand dripping blood and his shirt half off, at one end of a bridge. He was muttering something I couldn't make out.

Last week, the woman the guy was menacing appears to have slashed his face. Strong work.

I have a recurring Monday night event and for two consecutive weeks I've encountered a deranged man covered in blood on my way there.

8 and 164 now. These last few are the gnarly ones.

The count is 16 and 299 now.

Continuing to correct project pages following the Vassal module library conversion. 46 pages which need splitting, 478 orphaned files yet to be reunited with their projects.

I have to keep reminding myself that this is a static finite list, so we'll eventually reach the end...

This is everything I love about the Upper Midwest. It's like Prairie Home Companion meets Cannibal Corpse.

Reminds me of my architect brother-in-law, who has been putting PTF/PTM on blueprints for years and nobody has ever asked what it means: Pound to Fit/Paint to Match.

PSA: If you complain about something and you get the attention of a person who can help you, ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS SO THEY CAN HELP YOU.

Still correcting project pages following the Vassal module library conversion... 55 remaining on the list which need splitting, 538 orphaned files yet to be reunited with their pages.

If you're a module maintainer and you haven't checked your project pages, yet, please do so!

I've always felt like in those situations, you should be able to force them to fight it out with each other.

No amount of testing can protect you when the language itself precludes any statement being infallible. At least with C++, you can mostly avoid using exceptions; not so with Python.