Blog

There are 30 posts, but I don’t blog as often now that I have the garden.

Please pardon my dust, still migrating stuff here.

• 2025-04-06 – Halfassed response to John Gruber

• 2025-01-25 – About digital gardens

• 2025-01-24 – “Good enough” Javascript bundling

  (it’s esbuild)

• 2025-01-23 – ⭐ Who is Bright Data? Into the “Create: Protection Pixel” junkware

  (updated Jan 28)

• 2024-12-01 – Blanksky

• 2024-11-30 – I don’t really know what “December Adventure” is?

• 2024-11-29 – Why can you define Javascript classes with dynamic names?

  Examining a short Javascript snippet.

• 2024-11-06 – I am still very tired of my friends being used as political footballs

• 2024-10-24 – Neko Atsume is a game where you can pay to miss the point of the game

  A weak defense of a free-to-play mobile microtransaction game? Can’t believe I’m doing this

• 2024-10-22 – ⭐ How to play Portal 2 without losing your mind

• 2024-09-21 – How to at least start updating your mod to 1.21

• 2024-08-09 – RSS feed is back; misc updates

• 2024-07-24 – On writing

• 2024-06-04 – How to download Java

  Every player who visits Oracle’s website is a failing on behalf of the community.

• 2024-04-23 – ⭐ Reflectively constructing enums at runtime

• 2023-11-30 – Registry deep dive

  Ok how does the registry system work actually in 1.20.1

• 2023-05-11 – ⭐ The Treadmill

  When that thing you like slowly turns into a live-service game

• 2023-04-02 – Let’s look at Stepmania’s code

  A look at the oldest dance game codebase.

• 2022-10-25 – How the hell do you use the command line

  And other things you learned ten years ago and forgot how to teach.

• 2022-10-03 – Where has all the memory gone? (draft)

  Let’s browse a Forge 1.18 modpack heap dump.

• 2021-11-30 – Updating to Fabric 1.18 notes

• 2021-09-09 – What the hell is a good build system (draft)

  cause it sure as hell isn’t Gradle

• 2021-06-08 – Updating to Fabric 1.17 notes

• 2021-05-26 – “Unable to get Windows mutable environment variable map”

  Old gradle, Java 16, $JAVA_HOME, and you

• 2021-05-16 – Fabric 1.16 Datagens (draft)

• 2021-03-20 – Good title for my puzzle game

• 2021-03-16 – Obligatory Haha New Website Post

• 2020-02-06 – how 2 angry lex.md (draft)

  Unfinished, short guide to setting up 1.12 coremods

• 2020-01-19 – Overview of Resource Reloading in 1.14.4/Fabric

  On the new resource reloading system introduced in 1.14

• 2020-01-19 – Fix stuff being broke in IntelliJ

  On fixing old ForgeGradles with new IntelliJs.