2021: Converting a UK driver's licence to a Japanese licence
July 23, 2021My experience in converting my UK drivers licence to a Japanese licence at Koto Driving Center
...Kero Devlog #4 - May 2021
May 30, 2021Progress Report It’s been a while. Life got in the way for all these months, only just this month giving me some real time to get back into…
...Kero Devlog #2 - July 2020
July 30, 2020Progress Report July brings a slew of (predominantly) visual improvements with a push towards getting all the rendering fundamentals there…
...Kero Devlog #1 - June 2020
June 19, 2020Starting a dev log my hobby project Kero
...Japan 1 year visa 1st renewal notes
May 22, 2020Some useful info for renewing a visa at the end of your first year
...Introducing MapTracker
August 13, 2019Introduction to a new project of mine: MapTracker
...Applying for a Japanese Working Visa
April 12, 2019Detailing my entire experience with obtaining a Japanese Working Visa
...Jekyll theme - Isla
April 03, 2019Isla is a Jekyll theme inspired by Plastic Memories
...Gosigl: A really simple Go OpenGL wrapper for really simple rendering
December 28, 2018A quick project I spent the last couple of evenings writing, while I was working on https://github.com/Galaco/Gource-Engine. I found my…
...Source Engine netcode: Diving In
November 14, 2018Diving into Source Engine network protocol as a client I’ve seen it asked several times over the internet, spanning several years; requests…
...Source Engine: Crashing clients in another map
October 18, 2018I’ve wanted to write something about this for a long time, as for a long time I argued that this was possible, and even demo’d it, but time…
...Gource Engine - Go game engine for Source Engine games
October 16, 2018As my earlier projects may have made apparent, I’ve been working on a game engine in Golang. There aren’t may of these available, so besides…
...Zombie escape map release: ze_illya
September 27, 2018Background Back in early 2017, a photo (that unfortunately I can no longer find) was to https://www.reddit.com/r/evilbuildings. That photo…
...Loading Source Engine vtf's with Go
September 07, 2018A more recent project of mine has been writing a BSP level visualiser in Golang. Naturally this means plenty of parsers for proprietary…
...Fundamentals of VRAD: Part 1
May 15, 2018Continuing the topic of waging war on the Source Engine monolith, I’ll be looking at something a little larger for the forseeable future. I…
...Implementing a .vmf parser
April 14, 2018Im my continued quest into Golang, and war on Source Engine, I found myself led towards the raw map format from which .bsps are generated…
...Go library for Source Engine .bsp maps
February 16, 2018Having recently been learning golang, and to aid my understanding by rewriting my game_text tool, it became apparent I could write a much…
...[Short] Bash on Win10 - Get that nginx started
August 19, 2017There is some buried information around on this, but here is a ludicrously short and simple set of instructions to get an usable nginx…
...Ghost 1.0+ and Docker
August 19, 2017By now, I think it well known that Ghost 1.0+‘s direction of easy installation is great for the average user (although I feel that is up for…
...Docker, Caddy and Ghost
July 14, 2017So I’ve moved this Blog entirely over to Docker now, and replace nginx with Caddy, also in its own Docker image. Great, because updates and…
...CS:GO game_text newline fixer
May 17, 2017It’s been a little under 2 months since I rediscovered Valve had fixed game_text in CS:GO. At the time I mentioned how even newline would…
...Source Engine: CS:GO and game_text
January 12, 2017Update 19/03/2017: After a CS:GO update yesterday, and some research on my part, gametext now has basic functionality, including multiline…
...Using Node.js with IIS
March 06, 2016Windows Server seems daunting from anyone coming from a Linux background. Having recently made the switch myself, I’ll be going through a…
...Zend Framework 2 on a shared host
October 02, 2014This topic is one I encountered a lot a few years ago, but one I found little discussion or examples for. Today I’m going to walk through…
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