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CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

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Opinionated Common Lisp Resources 2020

If programming is more than just a means of getting things done for you, then Common Lisp is for you!

Table of Contents

• Opinionated Common Lisp Resources 2020
• What is Common Lisp?

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An ultimate guide to Postfix + Dovecot IMAP server with complete SPF, DKIM and DMARC support and additional instructions for a multi-domain setup

In this guide, domain.com will be your root domain and mail.domain.com will be the hostname of your mail server

• An ultimate guide to Postfix + Dovecot IMAP server with complete SPF, DKIM and DMARC support and additional instructions for a multi-domain setup
  • 0x01 Adding DNS records
  • 0x02 Set hostname
  • 0x03 Verify DNS resolution
  • 0x04 Get SSL certificate
• 0x05 Install and configure Postfix

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Usage

curl -sSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ttimasdf/ef739670ac5d627981c5695adf4c8f98/raw/autossh@host1 | \
  sudo tee /etc/default/autossh@example
curl -sSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ttimasdf/ef739670ac5d627981c5695adf4c8f98/raw/autossh@.service | \
  sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/autossh@.service

sudo useradd -g nogroup -s /bin/false -m tunnel
sudo -u tunnel mkdir -p ~tunnel/.ssh # and copy your private key here

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Overview

Internet connection and DNS routing are broken from WSL2 instances, when some VPNs are active. The workaround breaks down into two problems:

1. Network connection to internet
2. DNS in WSL2

This problem is tracked in multiple microsoft/WSL issues including, but not limited to:

• microsoft/WSL#5068

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Make Reddit clients Alive again !!

Reddit has imposed paid API limits and that compelled developers to shutodwn their clients.
But There is a way you can Keep using your favourite reddit Client.

Obtaining Client ID

Step 1: Navigate to this page.

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Source: StackOverflow

1. Run defrag in the guest (Windows only)

2. Nullify free space:

With a Linux Guest run this:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero | pv | sudo dd of=/bigemptyfile bs=4096k
sudo rm -rf /bigemptyfile

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Moving gulpfile from CommonJS (CJS) to ECMAScript Modules (ESM)

Context

del v7.0.0 moved to pure ESM (no dual support), which forced me to move my gulpfile to ESM to be able to continue to use del.

The author sindresorhus maintains a lot of npm packages and does not want to provides an upgrade guide for each package so he provided a generic guide. But this guide is a bit vague because it's generic and not helping for gulp, hence this guide.

Guide

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Flow Music

Music for working, writing, editing, concentration and flow states.
Drone, minimalism, hypnagogia. All selections carefully chosen for repeat listening.
Updated February 2023

Cousin Silas - Liminal Dronescape 5: Winter - album
1hr12m

36 - Fade to Grey Reinterpreted - album

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// Author: Raheman Vaiya
// License: WTFPL
//
// A tiny zip generator in < 70 lines of javascript.
// Produces an uncompressed zip blob when fed an array
// of the form:
//
// [{name: 'filename', data: <Uint8Array>}]
//
// Useful for bookmarklets, don't use this in production :P.