Patrick Joannisse

Hello Bluesky, I'm Patrick Joannisse, a web developer from Canada 🇨🇦. I talk about: - TTRPGs - the OSR - Blades in the dark - Web dev stuff (Laravel and React) - Coffee - Video games

I love the CBC and seeing Andrew try to dumb down something I'm familiar with is just a delight! "Ahhh PHP. Where the first P stands for....PHP" youtu.be/WiEXPHYA6xM

I have to say it but I pay for a few Patreons and it clearly offers something creators like and want but for me, someone who consumes content on Patreon, it sucks. It’s a terrible user experience. It’s clearly a bunch of features in a trenchcoat. Videos specifically is terrible.

I run a weekly game. Just started a new job where I juggle a lot of hats. Fully exhausted most nights. I’m barely keeping up with adulting. My brain: I should start a new west marches game… #adhd

Unless you’re on Arrakis and the interview involves water discipline, ignore this fool.

I expect about 4-7 games from various fundraisers to arrive by the end of the year. I probably need to run some of them before I buy more.

I suspected as such, but it boils down to how managing these kinds of partnerships takes time and resources and this wasn't sustainable for Paizo. Perfectly reasonable.

Paizo is ending their partnership with Archives of Nethys, one of the biggest SRD resource for their games. This one makes little sense to me but I don't know the full story obviously. #ttrpg #pathfinder #pf2e www.archivesofnethys.com/agreement.html

Maybe he decided to go talk to McConnell?

No idea how I haven't heard of this before...but Jen is on today's Eldritch Lorecast (the #1 TTRPG podcast in all the realms) and they talked about this. Having done web accessibility for more than a decade and being an RPG nerd...this is really cool. #a11y #ttrpg

Doing an SPA for your secret society might not have been a good idea.

Incredibly sad for the people impacted by this. Reading about the consignment business model from the Bricks and Minifig story and how Paizo (and many others) essentially were robbed of millions of dollars of product in a C7 bankruptcy makes you wonder if this model needs to die.

Happy pride to all! 🏳️‍🌈

John coming in with that Sway in a Controlled position and Great Effect. Let’s see how it pans out. #rpg

I’m getting ads for this…thing and it just sends me so much. Don’t buy your mom a D&D stat block with her name folks.

I pre-ordered the deluxe edition of Daggerheart: Hope & Fear so freaking fast…

OSS is a miracle and a curse. Imagine telling your C-suite you want to use a piece of code written by someone outside the company, hosted and managed outside the company and you have no control over their own security hygiene but your business is gonna be built on that piece of code...

I was very skeptical of Project Hail Mary because I really loved the book but it was very good 👎

The whole thing about sleeping on K-pop demon hunter until he saw a post on LinkedIn and rushed to get the licensing is the most C-suite thing I ever read.

I've been doing web development for almost 20 years now and I couldn't figure out how to make my clinic's file upload work. It's a widget on their home page (outside the authenticated area) and when you submit the form it gets a 403. If I can't figure it out, how are typical patients supposed to?

🚨Canadian FANS🚨 We have *another* FLGS supporting your ability to get the exclusives from the Blades '68 campaign. @ratti.bsky.social in Oshawa, Ontario is accepting pre-orders here: rattiincantati.com/collections/... Be sure to check in on the BK page to understand how this process works.

Hey CBC, you can try to hide Thirsty Sword Lesbians with a Monster Manual, but I have advantage on Perception checks to notice TTRPGs. #ttrpg #dnd www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Neopets TTRPG is going great portal.neopets.com/news/feb20-g...

Prep Arden Vul <=====> Design a game to run Arden Vul #osr #ttrpg #dnd

Decided to treat myself for my birthday and get the Halls of Arden Vul megadungeon with the Bundle of Holdings and in print. Now my players are saying I don’t have a choice but to run it. #osr #ttrpg #d&d

Woah Mistborn will be adapted on Apple TV. I might need to read the thing.

Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.app www.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...

[Mr Nadella] noted that a “telltale sign of if it’s a bubble” would be if only tech groups were benefiting from the rise of AI, rather than companies in other sectors. Imagine telling someone standing outside soaking wet that a telltale sign of rain would be if water was falling from the sky...

“I have an idea for a website…”

Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answer only.

Can we start having DMs comment like lawyers on the internet? "Hi, DM here (not your DM, this is not DMing advice) [...]"

Kind of wild that on a Monday I was let go, on Wednesday a recruiter reached out and before I had time to figure out what to do with my spare time I got a job offer. And it’s a promotion too. I feel very lucky to say the least.

Dolmenwood by Exalted Funeral made to Canada 🇨🇦

After basically 20 years Steve Jackson Games is reportedly working on a GURPS 4th Edition Revised with major changes. In this economy anyone who’s been around for this long doing this is amazing. Not a GURPS man myself but SJG are OG

So I love Obsidian and don’t mind paying for the sync feature but editing a table on mobile to then go on my PC and the rows have duplicated a few times is not great. I’d rather not go back to Notion if I can avoid it

After 7 sessions of OSE with my group, a full TPK and a partial one I had a good conversation with the players. I came out as poly-game-ist and asked if they would be willing to see other systems every now and then. Everyone agreed AND we'll be rotating GM. What a freaking dream group.

So I was just laid off. Let’s just say software engineering roles right now are a bit scary.

If we could skip to the part of the Microscope game where we add a light period that would be great.

I just backed DURF Expanded project on Kickstarter and I hope people check it out. I’m not super familiar with DURF but I know it’s a darling of the OSR community. I’m also a sucker for cool hardcovers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

"We're definitely in a bubble" confirms CEO of soap manufacturing company

Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0 in Kickstarter right now but oof. The physical tiers comes with a GM screen (eh) but PDF is €30 extra. The tier that includes it is more expensive by another €10 because it comes with the PDF for the GM screen. For that money you can get a lot of good indie games and zines.

Hell froze and Wizards of the Coast released a new game. ttrpg.store.exodusgame.com