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This is a follow-up to these posts:
Building a World of Warcraft server in Elixir Building a World of Warcraft server in Elixir: 2024 Update Thistle Tea is a World of Warcraft private server project that I’ve been working on for a while now. This is a quick update to highlight what’s been going on in 2025.
New Year’s Blues The last big feature I worked on in 2024 was…
Thistle Tea is my World of Warcraft private server project, started in June 2024. I wrote a blog post back then journaling the first month of development and have since been working on the project bit by bit. This is a follow-up to highlight progress since then, so I’d recommend skimming the original post first.
Pathfinding I briefly tried to get mobs walking around during the first…
Updates:
2024-11-28: Should’ve linked earlier, but there’s now a homepage and Discord channel. Thistle Tea is my new World of Warcraft private server project. You can log in, create a character, run around, and cast spells to kill mobs, with everything synchronized between players as expected for an MMO. It was floating around in my head to build this for a while, since I have an…
Here’s an overview of my home network setup.
Office Closet This is where I keep most of my network equipment in a small rack mounted on the wall.
Router Hardware: N5105 Mini PC Software: OPNSense Interfaces: LAN - everything wired + main wifi ssid Guest - for guest wifi ssid IoT - for iot wifi ssid Works really well. Interfaces are set up so that Guest and IoT can’t access…
Decided to buy a domain for this blog and host it myself.
rewrote with Hugo deployed with Cloudflare Pages now lives at pikdum.dev repo is at https://github.com/pikdum/blog Will write more posts shortly.
guess trying to update my favicon to not be truncated also cleared out my custom domain, since that’s somehow now a paid feature
set up a redirect for now, but not nearly as nice
rip
Recently bought a 5800X3D to replace my 5600X, and ran some benchmarks to see if it was worth it.
Update: It wasn’t worth the 8% performance loss with most regular tasks. Returned it for a full refund.
Benchmarks Did three quick ones, two work related and one gaming:
starting PostgreSQL and applying a lot of migrations building a Next.js application running Cyberpunk 2077 on all…
Here’s a quick list of recommended/neat Linux software:
applications Doom Emacs - text editor personal preference, uses vi keybinds Firefox - browser LibreOffice - office suite Ranger - console file viewer Thunderbird - emails Trackma - anime list manager haven’t actually used in a while feh - basic image viewer mpv - videos tools/utilities/cli BorgBackup - deduplicating backup…
here’s a quick list of “recommended” windows software:
7zip - extract archives AutoVer - easy versioned backups useful for game saves and documents Firefox Developer Edition - browser Flash Player - standalone flash player foobar2000 - music LibreOffice - office suite i don’t really use this unless i need to, would rather use markdown i only really use this on linux for…
Here’s a regularly updated list of recommended Windows software.
Browser: Firefox > Chromium > Chrome »> Internet Explorer
Office Suite: Libre Office > Microsoft Office == Kingsoft Office
They’re all pretty bad though. Consider switching to LaTeX.
Email Client: They’re all shit. Just use gmail or something that actually works.
Mailpile might not be shit,…
Now that this site is now live and (mostly) working, I’ll outline some goals.
Website Topics:
Technology Mainly software Computer Science If I feel like it Anime Rarely, if ever Content Goals:
Lists of recommended software Guides on how to set up neat software stacks Shill lesser-known software Links to some of my projects Links to interesting websites Technical Goals:
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