https://l33l33.com/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Hugo en-us Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:08:35 -0400 https://l33l33.com/posts/tracing-velorens-input-logic/ Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:08:35 -0400 https://l33l33.com/posts/tracing-velorens-input-logic/ <p>Veloren is an open source game written entirely in Rust. The open-world, voxel game takes inspiration from Zelda, Dwarf Fortress, and Minecraft. It started in 2018 and is still being actively developed. I wanted to explore the codebase and get a feel for how it was structured. To do that, I traced the code from a user&rsquo;s mouse click in the client all the way to damage being dealt to an enemy creature on the server.</p> https://l33l33.com/posts/a-fresh-start/ Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:03:20 -0400 https://l33l33.com/posts/a-fresh-start/ <p>I&rsquo;ve tried making blog sites before, but I always get 90% through making the infrastructure to host it and give up. I was recently talking with a good friend, and we discussed how there are three steps to initiating change. First, one needs to acknowledge that there is a problem. The second is crafting a plan with measurable steps towards improvement. Lastly, the person needs to carry through with their plan.</p>