Samuel Hinton's Blog, page 2

DataFrame filtering with chaining

If you're like me, breaking a nice method chain to do filtering is annoying.

A review of Harmon Cooper's 'The World According to Dragons'

Blurb

The Value of DR High Frequency

How much is DR High worth?

Scion of Storms Art

I commissioned a settings piece from the amazing Richard Lay and I cannot stress how amazing it is.

A review of Davis Ashura's 'The Eternal Ephemera'

As of writing this review, I have read Blood of a Novice, and received a copy as an ARC reader.

A review of Davis Ahura's 'The Eternal Ephemera'

As of writing this review, I have read Blood of a Novice, and received a copy as an ARC reader.

Cover Animations

I've wanted to animate my book cover for a while, but unsure about the best way to go about it. Some websites claim to do it for you using AI, but you have to pay for access, and are they good? Others offer it as a service, but prices range from $10USD into the hundreds, so would an expensive animation be worth the investment? Is there any real difference in what you'd get?

RoyalRoad Data Infographic

For those reading this, I assume you know what Royal Road is. For those may have misclicked: it's a website where authors publish web serials, generally a chapter at a time, and generally at a freakishly fast pace (like one chapter a day). It's home to many greats in the Progression Fantasy / LitRPG genre, and I have spent hundreds of hours as a consumer of these serials.

A review of J.M. Clarke's 'Mark of the Fool'

As of writing this review, I have read the KU release and up to chapter 200, which is about half-way through the available chapters.

A review of RavensDagger's 'Cinnamon Bun'

As readers of this genre know, LitRPG worlds can be a depressing, harrowing, and cut-throat place. Half of the MC's I've read in other works get ahead because this suits them just fine. They're happen to fight, happy get their hands dirty, happy to shake the system up. In many ways, that's part of the escapism. Having power.