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Minecrafty stuff

Documentation for some Minecraft mods is available here.

Stuff about tooling:

• How does tiny-remapper work?
• binpatches.pack.lzma in post-Launchwrapper Forge
• How Voldeloom works at a high level
• How do Neoforge installers actually work?
• Forge, Bitrot, and You; or, The e04c5335922c5e457f0a7cd62c93c4a7f699f829 Problem

Design:

• “Apathy lang”
• Another way to do datagen
• Collected notes on the DataFixerUpper papers
• Modded minecraft security concerns
• Season 2

Advice:

• Running a modpack on a server
• Forge/Neoforge mod load order
• Versions for things
• Towards a good config system
• Minecraft performance mods
• Minecraft will no longer be obfuscated (regarding 26.1)
• How to fix up Simply Magic 1 (1.7.10, 2016).

Those darn opinions:

• “Can you make the game a little less lonely?”
• Why you shouldn’t use chatgpt to diagnose Minecraft errors
• Reddit hivemind opinions
• Datapacks bad
• You should learn Java to mod Minecraft, not a different language
• Do you need a modloader? (yes you do)
• Portbeg tier list

Tools:

• the lang trimmer
• Season 2 Icon Generator

Class notes

• OSTEP
• Linear algebra and (engineering-style) boolean algebra.
• There was one class where we learned about Rails but I didn’t like it too much.
• TODO: some fun stuff about bezier curves I should digitize.
• TODO: took classes on cryptography, Unity, and photography last semester

Software

Linuxy things:

• Learning how to install the dang thing on my laptop
• File permissions, users, groups
• SSL, nginx, certbot
• Tmux cheat sheet
• Programs I like.
• How do you set up SSH keys?
• How do you set up signify?
• The syncthing situation, as of mid-2025
• SSH and git forges / Working with multiple remotes in Git
• Following vtrlx’s tutorial about writing GNOME apps with Lua
• Go / go quote example

The web:

• Dissecting “char min glee” by Jack Lance
• Dissecting htm
• Styling forms
• CSS redaction effect
• Fun Javascript surprise
• Actually using html/css popovers

Ugh, more opinions:

• The wrong abstraction
• No, we’re not destroying software
• but what make
• If I release it, you won’t get the same experience I get

I don’t even know:

• How to read and write Lean function definitions
• CIA jars?
• the Nook Simple Touch (2011)
• Java build system talk: Maven, mill.
• Fixing weird powershell colors

Scary posts inside here: Boy, I Love Going On The Computer

Being human

• Executive function
• Digital gardening (hey, you’re reading one of those)
• Do not register for any protest action
• Misinformation about Trans Lifeline’s number
• Breaking a bone
• Age verification
• itch.io and adult content.
• Digital cameras
• Stuff

Being a furry:

• Advice about attending furry conventions
• Advice about navigating the FWA hotel
• Every single vendor at FWA 2025
• Anthrocon 2026 unofficial schedule

And this is just videogames:

• LINGO 2 notes
• Bugs in Portal 2

Elsewhere

• Visit other blogs: Blogroll
• Visit other places: The link dump

Missing something? An auto-generated listing of all notes is here.