The blog of Vaughan Hilts

I’ve been recently toying with the idea of writing a book since 2023 to collect some of the thoughts I’ve had on sofware development and specifically around debugging throughout my career.

This is a continuation of posts of trying out various AI tools.

I’ve been using Disqus for comments on this blog since I started it back in 2014.

Disclaimer: I work at Google and have used Antigravity and the suite of models quite extensively.

This is the first entry in my 2024 games played.

Something Story Key points: Story: [-] We’ve seen the “God is angry at mankind story before” and this one didn’t add anything too novel [-] Political intrigue was good but devolved near the end as things became rapidly part of the god slaying plot [+] That

The following is for installing HorizonXI, a FFXI private server on Linux.

tldr; if you want to play over a VPN, consider something like Chiaki I’ve been going out more lately – especially now that COVID in Canada has been subsiding and things are returning to some sense of normalcy over the past few months.

There is a fun tradition from back in Trails in the Sky for Trails in the Chest that involves hiding fun messages inside of the treasure chests in some of the Kiskei games.

The following is for installing WingsXI, a WoTG FFXI private server on Linux.

I have a boring standard home router, though it’s a bit on the expensive side (Or it was when I got it many years back).

My current media server is running unRAID.

My Zotac GTX 970 is 3.5 years old or so.

I work as a Software Developer doing mostly front-end work but I do some back-end work as well.

We’re going to look at solving Binox puzzles in this post today.

I recently wanted to give the Nasomi XI Private Server a try as I had played a lot of Final Fantasy XI when I was younger and was feeling a bit nostalgic.

I recently became intrigued with using Huggin for a few automation tasks I had been doing manually up to this point.

Those are not faked (read: photoshopped) – that is how much I paid for those items sometime in 2014.

Sometimes, working on some older legacy codebases they are using some Frankenstein build systems they created in house or a port to something like gulp, especially in some older open source projects.

This post is a work in progress; it’s mostly a scratchpad for my thoughts Motivation & why you should read on Before you read much more, here’s a summary of what you can expect: At least in some circles, we need to figure out how to enforce the invariants…

Just writing this down here in case anyone else stumbles across this.

Guide and Remarks: Playing Trails of Cold Steel I && II on Linux using WINE If anything here becomes out of date, please email me.

Steam hanging when clicking “Login” on WINE Staging touma@setsuna:repos/hilts-vaughan.github.io ‹master›$ wine --version wine-2.21 (Staging) I was installing Steam in WINE to play a game.

Setting up a TF2 Server with Custom Maps using Linux Game Server I was recently trying to play some custom maps with some friends on Team Fortress 2 but with some custom maps.

You need to learn to navigate code Often when we talk about productivity of developers, we will measure various outputs.

Honest Perspective: A year on Arch Linux coming from Windows and macOS A little background about me before we begin fully: I’m a Software Developer in Canada, I’ve been writing web applications professionally for a number of years Most of my development is

Tired of slow scrolling through code?

System.Security.Cryptography.Native error on a web request?

.NET Core: Make sure global.json is at the root of your repo I was recently writing some .NET Core code and I was getting some strange error messages.

NOTICE: As of .NET Core 2, this is no longer a problem.

You may have seen my other post on unlinking those pesky segmented MKVs that I posted a while back.

I recently began and finished the great Trails in the Sky series and was amazed at some of the technical skill that was used in such an old game (developed originally in 2001) and remastered for the English release.

I recently was working on a project for a client that required going through some data on the web and extracting some information, known in most circles as data scraping.

zeroRPC is a really cool messaging system for distributed communication between server and client applications.

For the longest time, the video format of choice was XVID or other types of encodings held in AVI containers.

Before migrating my blog over to Jekyll, I did some research and found Jekyll was probably a fairly matured static generator that had a fair degree of running on Windows with no issues.