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 →

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 →

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 →

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… →

Digressing

Dear Tim, I've taken a break from Kalmany for a bit even though I'm close. I guess I just need a break from it for a little while as it doesn't have any new ideas in it right now, it's just clean-up and making things work. Instead, I started looking at some other things. Next.js … Continue reading Digressing →

Finishing touches

Dear Tim, The system is now running, the site is now updating, elections are happening, and assemblies are voting on policies. It's like real politics - the very first assembly privatised the Health sector. I'm very upset by this development and I'm concerned that the citizens may eventually privatise everything, but we'll have to wait … Continue reading Finishing touches →