Evan Pratten

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NOTICE: The service mentioned in this post is currently unavailable due to ongoing network upgrades. mtr (a modern version of traceroute) is a network debugging tool commonly used by network engineers to trace the physical (and sometimes virtual) paths th…

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Remember the Steam Controller?

When installing Visual Paradigm on my Fedora workstation today, I kept running into a SIGSEGV error, causing the bundled JVM to crash.

Today I had a rather anticipated package arrive in the mail.. a NanoVNA!

Since September of 2018 (3 and a half years ago) I have been roughly holding a streak of going no more than three days without making a commit to some project on GitHub.

Ubiquiti's Unifi Dream Machine Pro is a powerful medium-scale business-oriented rack-mount router, capable of handling 10/100/1000/10000 ethernet traffic.

The surface of Lake Ontario had frozen over the winter, and as the weather began to warm, the ice started cracking into fairly large pieces.

A while back, I encountered an interesting trend going on over on TikTok.

My GitHub profile is a bit like an iceberg.

The running joke in the graphics programming world is that nobody understands quaternions.

Your first, and possibly only question is likely: "what?"

This document is aimed at a small handful of people, but published publicly as reference material for anyone that needs it.

Between work, school, and just helping various people out with things, I end up needing to quickly spin up SSH servers on windows machines a lot.

WARNING: To replicate this project, you must be the holder of an amateur radio license in your country I have an extra Baofeng UV-5R lying around, and had no idea what to use it for.

Last fall, I purchased my first mechanical keyboard, the Vortex Core, and have been loving it ever since.

I used Xaero's World Map on a bunch of cached chunks to generate this map of a Minecraft server I've been playing on with friends recently.

As I continue to write more and more Java libraries for personal and public use, I keep finding myself limited by my library hosting solutions.

For the past few years, I have been using a self-hosted VPN to bring all my personal devices into the same "network" even though many of them are spread across various locations and physical networks.

So, whats up with 2020?

The base game Starting out at the base game.

My previous development laptop was an Acer R11 chromebook.

As I talked about in my post about Minecraft modpack development, I got back in to playing Minecraft earlier this year.

About a month ago, I decided to buy myself a mechanical keyboard.

All content of this post is based around the work I did here Back in 2012, I got in to Minecraft mod development, and soon after, put together an almost-vanilla client-side modpack for myself that mainly contained rendering, UI, and quality-of-life tweaks.

When sharing files, I use three main services.

Recently, @rsninja722 was telling me about a project he was working on.

It has been quite some fun writing about my workflows for various day-to-day things on this blog recently, and since I have been getting a lot of positive feedback from my last few workflow-related posts, I am planning to continue writing them.

I have been looking around for a small, and easy-to-use maven server to host my personal Java libraries for some time now.

I was recently accepted into the GitHub Codespaces beta test program.

The GitHub repository for everything in this post can be found here When writing software for an Arduino, or any other AVR-based device, there are generally three main options.

You can view my public demo for this post here Recently, I have been on a bit of a mission to improve my school workflow with software.

This post is a continuation on my "Notes from FRC" series.

I am starting a new little series here called "Notes from FRC".

The ATmega32u4 (aka. 32u4) chip is one of my favorite microcontrollers to work with.

It has now been 11 weeks since the last time I have had access to a RoboRIO to use for debugging code, and there are limits to my simulation software.

Over the past weekend I teamed up with @rsninja722, @wm-c, @exvacuum, @marshmarlow, and our friends Sally and Matt to participate in the LudumDare46 game jam.

My roles in this project included: Being the head of software design and development Assisting with mechanical design Helping test mechanisms and system integration Filming & producing the reveal teaser video Reveal teaser

BrainFuck is an esoteric programming language that is surprisingly easy to implement.

Cron has always been one of those "scary sysadmin things" in my head.

"So.. what if we could skip asking for driver inputs, and just have the robot operators control the bot through a commandline interface?"

Bill Wurtz is an American musician who became reasonably famous through short musical videos posted to Vine and YouTube.