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This is a follow-up to these posts: Building a World of Warcraft server in Elixir Building a World of Warcraft server in Elixir: 2024 Update Thistle Tea is a World of Warcraft private server project that I’ve been working on for a while now.

Thistle Tea is my World of Warcraft private server project, started in June 2024.

Updates: 2024-11-28: Should’ve linked earlier, but there’s now a homepage and Discord channel.

Here’s an overview of my home network setup.

Decided to buy a domain for this blog and host it myself. rewrote with Hugo deployed with Cloudflare Pages now lives at pikdum.dev repo is at https://github.com/pikdum/blog Will write more posts shortly.

guess trying to update my favicon to not be truncated also cleared out my custom domain, since that’s somehow now a paid feature set up a redirect for now, but not nearly as nice rip

Recently bought a 5800X3D to replace my 5600X, and ran some benchmarks to see if it was worth it.

Here’s a quick list of recommended/neat Linux software: applications Doom Emacs - text editor personal preference, uses vi keybinds Firefox - browser LibreOffice - office suite Ranger - console file viewer Thunderbird - emails Trackma - anime list manager…

here’s a quick list of “recommended” windows software: 7zip - extract archives AutoVer - easy versioned backups useful for game saves and documents Firefox Developer Edition - browser Flash Player - standalone flash player foobar2000 - music LibreOffice -…

Here’s a regularly updated list of recommended Windows software.

Now that this site is now live and (mostly) working, I’ll outline some goals.