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Tricks with Variadic Tuple Types with TypeScript 4

By Daniel Gill in Programming on 23 Sep 2020

TypeScript 4 released recently and the most interesting new feature is variadic tuple types. They have a lot of promise for functional programming in TypeScript, as they enable really sophisticated typing of the arguments of higher-order functions.…

Compelling Verbs in Role-Playing Games

By Daniel Gill in Role-Playing Games on 17 Sep 2017

Matthew Colville put up a video a while ago on verbs and role-playing games. Or really verbs and fiction and narratives in general. Matthew Colville does a lot of videos on role-playing games (and Dungeons & Dragons in particular) and I greatly appreciate a lot of his work. But this…