Author Archives: Roy

Dicecord 1.01 is Now Live

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Roy

Dicecord 1.01 is now live. Visit the Dicecord page to download the latest version. Please visit the changelog for a summary of the changes. You can view the code on github.

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Dicecord 1.01 Changelog

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Roy

Rather than make a full project update this week I will share a changelog between the Dicecord v1.0 (soft release) and v1.01 (public release). The installer will be compiled and uploaded later, but in the meantime you can view the code on github. Continue reading →

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Dicecord Project Update 5

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Roy

Welcome to Update 5 of the Dicecord project. This week I was able to complete all my goals and have closed in on a release candidate. The sheet is now implemented into Dicecord, which now opens on a blank character.

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Dicecord Project Update 4

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Roy

Welcome to Update 4 of the Dicecord project. This week I was able to complete all my goals, resulting in a complete view of a one page Mage character sheet. In addition to showing all content, I incorporated tooltips on … Continue reading →

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Dicecord Project Update 3

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Roy

Welcome to Update 3 of the Dicecord project. This weekend I was unable to complete all my goals due to an injury, but I got a lot of the main work done at least. I finished off the Health widget, … Continue reading →

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Dicecord Project Update 2

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Roy

Welcome to Update 2 of the Dicecord project. This weekend I completed all goals I set out in the last update. I made the Square object, added it as a rote marker, added in a derived stats section and added … Continue reading →

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Quick Tutorial: Python Multiprocessing

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Roy

I’m going to take a break from webhooks and project updates to give a quick tutorial about multiprocessing. Multiprocessing is very useful when it comes to any sort of networking focused code and most tutorials I found dealt with just … Continue reading →

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Dicecord Project Update 1

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Roy

First project update for Dicecord. This is a diceroller/digital character sheet for use with Discord. Its UI is buily in PyQt5. This goes over the Dicecord-lite version, shows a preview of the character sheet display and generally talks about how the coding experience has been. Continue reading →

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Using Webhooks with Python: Part 2

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Roy

In this post I’m going to go over the send message to Discord webhook function from last time and add in some error handling for when we hit a rate limit. Continue reading →

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Using Webhooks with Python: Part 1

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Roy

In this post I’m going to share a tutorial about how to use Discord webhooks in python. While the specific example is Discord, the tutorial will show how we can use docs and software like postman to figure out how to use webhooks in general. Continue reading →

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