User:Prd

I can't stay long, whispered the butterfly, but I'll put a memory in your heart.

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Socials

Discord - prd1847

Prdandsuch on Reddit

whatisaprd on X/Twitter

KenshiDBdotWiki@gmail.com

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Realpolitik, World Revisions

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Mega Archive

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map.kenshi.wiki - Interactive Map

kenshidb.wiki - KenshiDB, Asset Repository

jobboard.kenshi.wiki - Job Runner Dashboard

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12/25

Merry Christmas

12/27

Makesyoumove

12/29

Doldrums

In the depths of navigating the Cloudflare ecosystem. Examining what can be done with workers & beyond for edge caching. Did you know serverless functions can be managed almost entirely externally? That took some mental model migration. An early look at setting up the smart switch for optimized request delivery & processing is the focal point right now. The task map for what's to be done with the map is largely settled. Doing it ideally means making that initial API request and page loading nice & quick. The wiki comes back into play as the map is "wired" to connect to the corresponding page targets (see the Stobe landmark). Various upgrades to Caravan and then the creation of the modding portals follows. Yes, a mass deletion campaign of the test templates will occur, because... the Wikipedia templates are often overbuilt for our needs / inappropriate for the Citizen skin, etc...

12/31

Annual Revolution

1. Preliminary development of the Mappy extension. (Dedicated extension for consuming JSON and delivering wiki-ready maps for embedding in various formats... This extension will be released publicly, shared freely and built with a user-facing input & control schema.)
2. Upstream-Downstream for Map development (adjusting version control conventions because of ongoing creation of styling & minification process).
3. Cloudflare Workers, first on the map's upstream, the into the map's manifest pipeline, then applied as appropriate respective to the wiki ecosystem (I'm on the free tier!).
4. Map development itself is a known quantity. Progress temporarily pinned for workflow adjustments.
5. Personal note, Q1 is extremely busy for me. Most of the three months will be combatting the onslaught of snow and finishing up the projects wholly separate from these activities. The good news is I'm in a just as planned situation for those (mostly) and am really in a holding pattern until they resolve. Once they do, ramp to cruising altitude and maintain, because there's nothing else in the way any longer.

SVGs reign supreme!

Colorful roads, borders, resources & weather layers.

Road editor progress...Consumes polylines and allows editing thereafter.

Painting & Planning tools for the map.

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Next Steps

1. DataTools

A. Building Locations (Done)

B. Feature Locations (Done)

C. Road Layout (Done)

D. Biomes (...) (Done)

E. "Anything else"

F. "Assets" (data map)

// Separated concerns.

G. Dialogue Packages (Done)

H. Dialogue(s) (Done)

I. Dialogue Lines (Done)

J. Dialogue Actions (50%)

2. IMap

A. Painting & Planning (Done, v1 pinned)

B. Help & Tooltips (Tested, modestly implemented, further tweaks & proliferation)

C. Power Ranks & World History (50%)

D. Advanced Overlays (In progress.)

E. Town Layouts, Landmarks, Road Network and Biomes. (Biomes done.)

F. Equipment Locker (12/2, 50%)

G. Main Modal Window (4 migrated)

H. Light/Dark Theming

I. Right menu additions (states, campaigns).

K. v2 Data Processing (12/5+)

3. Caravan

A. Proper Page Declaration & Separation

B. Painting & Placements Import/Export

C. Landing Page

D. User Manifest Manager

E. Final Manifest Additions

F. Thin Proxy Discussion

4. Manifestor

A. KDB Backend Test

B. MapOrchestration

C. Map's v2 Endpoint

D. Global Action Log

E. 2FA Logins

F. PluggableAuth, OpenID Connect & OAuth 2.0 private access

5. World Studio

A. See after completion of map segment. Task Map B.

6. SDK

A. Pinned due to ongoing workflow change. Task Map B.

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Continuing Education

Bash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx9zG7wa4FA

nginx

https://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html

Varnish

https://vinyl-cache.org/docs/6.0/

SVGs

https://www.svgrepo.com/tools/

JSON

https://www.json.org/json-en.html

Personal note, almost the entire site and external tooling operate based upon generation and exchange of JSON. It is, much like SVGs, utterly critical to how this site and the rest of the ecosystem operates.

C# (.NET and Beyond)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/?view=aspnetcore-10.0

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openapi/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/?view=visualstudio

Why I've chosen Blazor for 2026 and beyond

Code Style

An aside. I am an advocate for minification and making source maps available. This comes loaded with an extremely opinionated code style that is wholly divergent from industry standard (AirBnB style) formats. Spatial specificity (interchangeable with line specificity and explicit spatial containment), is a kind of mixed format derived from JSON's presentation, reapplied across other web native languages (primarily HTML, CSS & Javascript). There are goofy reasons for its existence, which I'm happy to share!

1. I do a significant amount of debugging in my browser. The interface appears to the right side of my screen. Tall, vertically focused, dense code is readable insofar as that it requires no horizontal scrolling. Logic can be dense so long as it's communicated.
2. I'm privy to split views and multiple windows, causing wide lines across multiple screens to require adjustment and constant panning to view.
3. Whitespace does exactly nothing for me. In fact, it's rather unhelpful! Minimizing whitespace and offsetting/replacing with new line breaks removes what feels like a rollercoaster across screen space.
4. I have poor eyesight. Larger text helps - this inherently causes horizontal space to become a luxury when accounting for the aforementioned situations. Equalized line starts are really "no different" when brackets are provided new lines by default, meaning there's no hidden bracket ever lingering off-screen to the right.
5. When a block is functional and finished its format is irrelevant respective to what will occur in the minification process. Likewise, source maps can unwind any applied style and reformatted to a more "traditional" presentation for public viewing.
6. My preferences are not intended to be embraced by anyone - they're my preferences. Nevertheless, because I do intend to make the format "known" (in terms of having a public reference and a knowledge base to point to), so that it can be refined, iterated upon, have a thorough ruleset and be comprehended by myself and others... a doc site will be made to show and explain! Importantly, I'll be building in a transmutation tool for converting to and from the format (for my own purposes, though anyone would be welcome to use it).