FFXIV raid mechanics explained in plain language. This is a long-form written guide for the fight AAC Heavyweight M1 (Savage) in the game Final Fantasy 14, where the challenger and their seven friends fight the Elezen succubus Vamp Fatale. You may call this the XeBin guide in party finder listings. If you want to experience this fight, don't read this guide. This guide is based off of the Toxic Fr

A meditation on gaming, community, and the purpose of negative space Lately I've been playing classic World of Warcraft to get a feel for it and see if I like it before I try and go head-first into WoW Forever fairly blind with some friends. People have told me that World of Warcraft is good, but I haven't personally played it (or really any MMO outside of Final Fantasy 14). I've wanted to see for

It sure seems that a bunch of companies are trying to ship a git product of some kind as of late. Wonder why that is. Either way, I’m building a Git server backed by object storage as an open-source project . It sounded simple enough to start: Git looks like a filesystem, so let’s use a filesystem as a translation layer on top of object storage to make Git speak object storage. This model worked…

The power of science is staggering! Every day we're making new advancements in the field of generative artificial intelligence via judicious application of large language model inference technology. However, as we approach the next critical threshold in capability, we must look forward to ensure that we're not inadvertently creating a bad user experience in the form of mass societal collapse due t

After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis will ship with WebAssembly-based proof of work checks that admins can enable in their thresholds or bot rules: thresholds

One of the hardest problems in distributed systems is conflict resolution, or the same basic problem as merge conflicts in Git. Git merge conflicts happen when your branch differs from upstream in a way that Git can’t easily work its way around so it exposes both sides of the changes to humans and has the human (or their agent) figure out which side is “correct”. Distributed systems don’t really h

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip , site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix decompressing two files in the same invocation of gzip (that's possible???) an attacker can trigger out of bound reads in the LZH decoder, causing reads past the end of the shared global buffer that i

Today I woke up and saw a brand new VS Code error when I remoted into my coding box: A VS Code error saying that the remote SSH extension can't use the API terminalRemoteResolver and that I have to start VS Code with some weird command line flag or something. Trying to update my extensions didn't work. I still got that error. The only thing that worked was to downgrade to VS Code v1.124.2. This al

What do you wanna bet someone's gonna get promoted for deleting this workaround from the code? Someone on the VS Code team decided to do a redesign of the product. This makes VS Code look like this: A picture of the VS Code UI that has a design I don't like. This design is fine, I guess? It's got some rounded corners that look nice, I guess, but I really just want it to look like what I'm used to.

TL;DR: if admins turn off browser features, those features won't work in confusing ways that are annoying to debug One of the most annoying parts of writing web applications is that in general: you can't trust browsers. But, you have to trust browsers at some level because that's how users interact with your software. As browsers get more capable with APIs like WebUSB , Built-in AI , or other absu