Chris Salzman

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  • A door, a fix, some lessons

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    I dislike the doors in our house. I love the knobs though. The doors, however, have faults. They’re old and hollow, the veneer is peeling, the springs in the deadlatches don’t spring as much as they used to, and the regrettable decision by the previous owner to put carpet over the hardwood floors means that…

  • Christmas Dice Recipe

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    Dice are one of life’s simple pleasures. For less than the cost of many other much-worse-for-you vices you can get a set of dice in just about any color. You also always need another set of dice no matter how many you have. I recently published a Christmas themed one shot adventure called, “A Christmas…

  • The Best SEO – A Basic Content Strategy

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    I tooted about this and thought it’d be worth a post too because I have opinions. The best SEO is stating what you offer and your beliefs about what you offer without being overly clever or precious about it. Start by writing out pages for the following in straightforward language your customers can understand (read:…

  • Some Thoughts on Tools

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    Here is what I’ve been learning about tools: Become enamored with taking care of your tools not buying new ones. Buy the cheapest tool you need for a job. If it breaks or fails its intended purpose then buy a more expensive replacement. Completing a project from start to finish is the only way to…

  • Detroit Urban Craft Fair 2018

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    Detroit Urban Craft Fair is this weekend! If you’re looking for a unique gift for your friends/family/yourself this is THE place to get it. Major bonus is that it’s in the Masonic Temple downtown: Friday: 6-9pmSaturday: 10am-8pm Sunday: 11am-6pm My wife’ll be there as Science Bee so go buy everything she has, but also go…

  • Video Games Crunch

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    Polygon published an article about the crunch and emotional labor that goes into most big budget videogames these days. It’s partly a reaction to someone at Rockstar mentioning multiple 100-hour weeks as part of the development process for Red Dead Redemption 2: What will be left of the people who make our games? Crunch exists,…

  • Walk Safe

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    Walk safe, everyone. Follow these important tips: (Based on this set of actually good ideas that would also not be necessary if we didn’t cede so much control of our public spaces to cars.) (Thanks to Scott for triggering the idea.)

  • A Solution to MacOS Auto-Adjusting Input Volume

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    If you’re having trouble with your input level auto-adjusting on your mic during VOIP calls on MacOS go buy SoundSource for 10 bucks and save yourself a lot of headaches: SoundSource On conference calls we’d regularly have one person clipping and another far too quiet. We tried different VOIP software, different headsets, different environments. It…

  • Bike Racks in Ann Arbor

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    I’m looking for feedback on this. It’s one thing to toss off a tweet about getting some cool racks and another to write over 1500 words about it. Please email me or tweet at me or find me in person to talk about this! Thanks to Workantile for helping me think through some initial ideas…

  • Blades In the Dark: Charhollow Manor

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    Saturday around 5pm Andy and I decided to play a game of something at 8pm. I couldn’t have prepped if I’d wanted to, which turned out to be ideal! We convened on a google hangout and decided to kick the tires on Blades in the Dark. I’d run one game in it a few months…