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Arianna Story

Software Engineer, NC State University

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A screenshot of a video uploaded by DougDoug, featuring a bingo board and three characters talking.
A screenshot of a video uploaded by DougDoug, featuring a bingo board and three characters talking.

Ever wondered what it’d be like if a group of AIs could have a conversation between them? Doug did. And then Ari copied the idea.

Continue reading "Recreating DougDoug’s “Endless Debate” AI"

I have a really vivid memory of being stuck in my house after a hurricane, low on batteries for my Game Boy Color (having spent far too long in Pokèmon Gold), and needing something to entertain myself.

Continue reading "The Stopwatch Game"

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A screenshot of various Magic: the Gathering tokens laid out on a PDF.
A screenshot of various Magic: the Gathering tokens laid out on a PDF.

Or, how late-night card organization led to staying up coding for the rest of the night (again).

Continue reading "The Token Deck Post"

A graphic of the cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, facing away from the camera with their weapons drawn.
A photo of the cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, facing away from the camera with their weapons drawn.
Graphic by Sandfall Interactive.

Clair Obsur: Expedition 33 is the greatest video game that I’ve ever played, and it is one of the most powerful stories I have ever experienced across any medium.

Continue reading "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the best game I’ve ever played."

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I have a collection of half-finished ideas that I work on in my spare time over at https://things.ari.codes/. They’re all in various states of completion, design, and novelty, but they’re open for you to take a look at! They run the gambit from recreations of games to actually useful utilities.

Continue reading "Check out my Things!"

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Recently, I was part of the organizing committee for UNC CAUSE, a professional conference for IT folks working within the University of North Carolina System. As part of that (and a need to pursue random ideas that I have at 1 AM), I wrote a small timer app that ended up getting some positive feedback, so I figured I’d share it here!

Continue reading "I made a break timer!"

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I thought it might be interesting to look at which races were the closest in this election. So, instead of refreshing the State Board of Elections’ website every five minutes, I decided to tackle an election-night coding project to take the edge off.

Continue reading "Doing Stuff With Election Data in NC"