James Wendel's Ramblings

This is a WIP.

This is a brief history of the creation and maintenance of is.xivup.com.

Note: this post is effectively just a journal entry for myself.

Intro Firewalls are great, until they get in your way.

I wrote about Picking Ghost a year ago, but I’m now going back to a static site generator.

Opinions are my own and not those of my employer.

Ghost subtly told me I am holding it wrong.

One of the eternal questions for someone starting a blog is what platform to use.

This post was partially inspired by a FFXIV post from Reddit: How to check your NA server ping.

Preamble When I first started looking at the Simcity 2013 traffic, I had hoped I could peak at all of the server communication they do.

Like many other who have tried playing Simcity since it’s launch, I’ve had time wasted fighting with their servers trying to get online.