
Hi, I’m Payton!
I’m a passionate coder by day and an enthusiastic tabletop dungeon master by night.
This blog is a place for me to tell stories and share fun things I’ve made. I write about insights from my coding projects, philosophical thoughts, and tales from epic D&D campaigns. Whether you’re a fellow developer, someone looking for a one-shot game, or a good friend, I’m excited to share my knowledge and adventures with you.
Here’s some of my latest posts
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The Witch’s Secret
Per tradition, I wrote a one-shot D&D adventure for my co-workers during our Fall meetup this year. The player characters are residents of the city…
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Elegant error handling in Rust
I’m slowly becoming more proficient working in the Rust language. I’ve now made my third tool, a command-line task manager called fini, and I’m starting…
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Using PHP property hooks wisely
PHP 8.4 included a new feature for class definitions called “property hooks“. These are a way to dynamically control the behavior of property reading and…
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Grappling vine animation
When I designed my game, The Lost Card, one of the powers I had come up with was a sort of extending vine that acted…



