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May 31, 2020 at 10:35 pm #1532785

blinky465

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Not Azure, but I run my own web server through DigitalOcean. It’s for trying out an idea for online tabletop play. The actual gameplay side of things is all sorted out, it’s the tedious maintenance stuff that’s taking the time (like logging in, creating a new game, joining an existing game etc). Developing the actual game was fun and I could do almost all of it offline. But I need to test out posting game turns and the like to a server, to make sure everything plays back in sequence. And with my crappy BT internet at the minute dropping connections anywhere between five and twenty minutes apart, development has really slowed down!

I’ve just cloned my remote web server and stuck it on a little Raspberry Pi, plugged into my router. It means I can build and test the web-connectivity side of things without actually being connected to the ‘net (plus run Cron jobs and python scripts, just like the web server can). It’s not brilliant, but it’s doing the job!

I’ve given up adding delivery etc. to the cost of items I’m buying on the ‘net. Just accepting them as part of the ongoing cost of coping with this stupid virus. It also means I don’t spend two hours or more comparing prices to try to get the “best deal” or to justify delivery – just pick a price I’m happy to pay, pull the trigger, then move on. I’m spending more (on delivery) and less (on actual goods) but, man, getting so much more done in a day 😉