Dear Tim, What's that, five months or so? A break involving watching people play Cities: Skylines, and writing. Making video games. Taking a holiday to Greece. And after playing Cities: Skylines, something began to click and whir in my head, and a new way of tackling Kalmany came to mind. Kalmany v3.0 aka Kalmany Gammon … Continue reading →

Taking Time

Dear Tim,Kalmany is on an indefinite hiatus - I've not touched the code or updated anything properly in about a month. And I'm currently not planning on anything soon for now. I suppose after six months I've hit my peak interest and it's hard to grab any inspiration for the next steps. Will I drop … Continue reading Taking Time →

The Circle of Life

Dear Tim, It's been a while but that doesn't mean I've been sitting on my hands doing nothing. I've just been watching, waiting, improving. The usual developer affair. If you've been following, you might've seen there was a Contact page added as I realised I needed a better interface for allowing people to raise issues … Continue reading The Circle of Life →

It’s Alive

Dear Tim, I did a very brave thing - I put a link to Kalmany on reddit. https://www.kalmany.org It's actually got a lot of positive feedback, and not too many issues. So far it's still a little baby in terms of development, but now it's in the public eye. And I haven't stopped stressing about … Continue reading It’s Alive →

Being an idiot

Dear Tim, Oh yes Kalmany still exists, but it's a little broken; not much the simulation, the little Kalmans are still going about their days, voting, electing, but the site i.e. the Aquarium is down. And it's partly my fault. With a large amount of refactoring, I managed to upgrade the database and the scripts … Continue reading Being an idiot →

Refactoring

Dear Tim, I spent the day cleaning up the study and fixing my PC after the CPU water cooler died (it was about time, the thing has been running for 10 years. Good thing it didn't explode). Gave me some time to think about things and consider how Kalmany needs to move forward. The work … Continue reading Refactoring →

Identity

Dear Tim, I've begun work to overhaul the major facets of Kalmany and its simulation. It's currently in a lot of design and testing of how I will have it work and there are some major decisions I'll need to make that will change how citizen perceptions work and how they are shown on the … Continue reading Identity →

It’s Party Time

Dear Tim, Kalmany has been running for over a month and now I'm gearing up for a proper minor update - the Party Update. Soon, Kalman Politicans will be forming, joining, and working together in political parties in a random fashion alike the rest of their government. What will this mean for the coding? Well … Continue reading It’s Party Time →

On Fire and Burnt Out

Dear Tim, I took a break for a bit from active development and did some side projects in the meantime. Kalmany has still been running in the background, so they've had about a dozen elections and assemblies while I've been working on other projects. The kind of projects I've worked with have been to do … Continue reading On Fire and Burnt Out →

Who cares for the NHS really…

Dear Tim, Where am I at? Online votes count! Do your part! Yeah so I've figured out how to pass in an authorization token from the API Gateway into a python Lambda function; it turned out to be really simple: user_id = event['requestContext']['authorizer']['claims']['sub'] constituency_id = event['requestContext']['authorizer']['claims']['custom:constituency'] Yep, turns out the event holds all that data … Continue reading Who cares for the NHS really… →