As I’m working on my side project (You should probably watch it on GitHub to stroke my ego), I’ve been toying with how I’ll eventually handle colors and web content. I’m almost fully set against using MUX/MUSH color codes, as those don’t do the ...

I run an Arch Linux desktop as my primary development workstation. We use celery pretty heavily on some of our Django projects, and I was working to get my local environment at least somewhat closer to our production setup, only to find there isn’t a non-AUR package for ...

It’s definitely different starting all over again with writing a new MUD codebase. My first attempt was Evennia, which  has evolved significantly since I handed it over. It is/was meant to be more general-purpose, and appeal to MUX/MUSH/MOO refugees who are tired of softcode (MUX/MUSH ...

Some of the first multiplayer games I played were text-based MUDs. Their accessibility, the imagination required, and the variety of places to spend time was great. Myself and a close friend had a few favorite places to haunt online, and had a blast exploring other people’s worlds.

We stumbled ...

Amazon just announced that it is lowering prices again for data transfers, and CloudFront. They have eliminated all inbound bandwidth fees, which is awesome for those of us wishing to upload large things. See the full details on their announcement.

As of May 24, Amazon Web Services added the ability to add Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to security group rules. This will allow you to get more specific with services that are load balanced in your security groups, instead of having to add a rule accepting inbound traffic from everyone ...

After dealing with them while working on a client’s website, I can’t, in good conscience, ever recommend 1and1.com as a domain registrar or DNS host. Creating, updating, and re-naming CNAMEs and A entries take an extremely long time, with some users complaining of times over 72 hours ...

I finally got fed up enough with my directional keys sticking on Minecraft (Linux version) to dig up a fix. I’ll post this here just in case someone else ends up afflicted. There’s a post on the Minecraft forums that I can vouch for, having done it myself ...

Tamarin 1.1 was released to account for the fact that there are rare cases where a user’s client doesn’t identify itself at all. I had accounted for one form of this, but failed to handle another. You’ll want to update to prevent ParseException exceptions from being ...

I missed this yesterday, but Amazon Web Services has just now announced the general availability (leaving beta) of they Identity Access Management service. One of the cool things about this is that there is now a tab for IAM in the web-based management console. This means that you now have ...