Galaco

It comes up from time to time on the English speaking community in Japan that someone wants to do a little more home networking than the…

My experience in converting my UK drivers licence to a Japanese licence at Koto Driving Center

Progress Report It’s been a while. Life got in the way for all these months, only just this month giving me some real time to get back into…

Progress Report July brings a slew of (predominantly) visual improvements with a push towards getting all the rendering fundamentals there…

Starting a dev log my hobby project Kero

Some useful info for renewing a visa at the end of your first year

Introduction to a new project of mine: MapTracker

Detailing my entire experience with obtaining a Japanese Working Visa

Isla is a Jekyll theme inspired by Plastic Memories

A quick project I spent the last couple of evenings writing, while I was working on https://github.com/Galaco/Gource-Engine. I found my…

Diving into Source Engine network protocol as a client I’ve seen it asked several times over the internet, spanning several years; requests…

I’ve wanted to write something about this for a long time, as for a long time I argued that this was possible, and even demo’d it, but time…

As my earlier projects may have made apparent, I’ve been working on a game engine in Golang. There aren’t may of these available, so besides…

Background Back in early 2017, a photo (that unfortunately I can no longer find) was to https://www.reddit.com/r/evilbuildings. That photo…

A more recent project of mine has been writing a BSP level visualiser in Golang. Naturally this means plenty of parsers for proprietary…

Continuing the topic of waging war on the Source Engine monolith, I’ll be looking at something a little larger for the forseeable future. I…

Im my continued quest into Golang, and war on Source Engine, I found myself led towards the raw map format from which .bsps are generated…

Having recently been learning golang, and to aid my understanding by rewriting my game_text tool, it became apparent I could write a much…

There is some buried information around on this, but here is a ludicrously short and simple set of instructions to get an usable nginx…

By now, I think it well known that Ghost 1.0+‘s direction of easy installation is great for the average user (although I feel that is up for…

So I’ve moved this Blog entirely over to Docker now, and replace nginx with Caddy, also in its own Docker image. Great, because updates and…

It’s been a little under 2 months since I rediscovered Valve had fixed game_text in CS:GO. At the time I mentioned how even newline would…

Update 19/03/2017: After a CS:GO update yesterday, and some research on my part, gametext now has basic functionality, including multiline…

Windows Server seems daunting from anyone coming from a Linux background. Having recently made the switch myself, I’ll be going through a…

This topic is one I encountered a lot a few years ago, but one I found little discussion or examples for. Today I’m going to walk through…