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Personal: wirepair.org - building an MMORPG Work: Principal Vulnerability Researcher @ GitLab Post more on mastodon: @wirepair@mastodon.social

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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
yep, this place is still worse than mastodon.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Moving on from netcode it's time to build systems, first up the #UE side of inventory and equipping weapons: wirepair.org/2025/05/25/s... #MMORPG
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Spiking the Inventory System
It is quite refreshing working on something other than netcode. This post is going to go into a bit of detail on how I plan on laying out the UE side of the inventory system. The flecs inventory sy…
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Finished my netcode, for realsies this time. Supports up to 200ms latency and 20-40% packet loss. Srsly done now: wirepair.org/2025/05/11/m...
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More netcode fun
5 months, 5 months I’ve been working on fixing my netcode. I finally understand what you have to do to get a decent deterministic simulation between clients and servers. In my defense on why …
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Well, I think I've finally solved the majority of my netcode issues with my #MMORPG, it's been a _long_ three months, I'm honestly exhausted: wirepair.org/2025/04/10/c... #gameDev
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Client Desyncs, Mostly Solved
I am cautiously optimistic that my client desyncs are (mostly) solved. Boy has it been a wild ride. I started this endeavor 3 months ago as I first noticed my client was slowly unable to hit anothe…
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Slightly embarrassed I've been working on this for so long, but I made a little bit of progress on rollback netcode physics for my #MMORPG. Just when I thought I was done... I ran into another problem. wirepair.org/2025/03/22/s... #GameDev
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Small Progress, Big Frustrations
I have been working on client rollback physics for ~ checks notes ~ THREE months now. I have never worked on the same problem for this long. I finally made a semi-small breakthrough this weekend, o…
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Shoutout to everyone else who thought the 🫂 emoji was a camera at first
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Sometimes it's good to take a step back and make sure you _truely_ understand some concepts, for me that was my netcode and epoll for use in my #MMORPG: wirepair.org/2025/02/23/g... #gamedev
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Groking epoll
Well, things aren’t going as planned, while I’ve implemented about 90% of the rollback code, I’m finding that the servers and clients are getting desync’d way more than they…
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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 14/02/2025
I just got the final PDF of my book on how debuggers work! Looking forward to finding a typo on page 3 and renaming it _FINAL_2.pdf. Pre-orders are still 25% off:
nostarch.com
Building a Debugger
Master the inner workings of your x64 Linux system and expand your OS expertise by writing your very own debugger using C++.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/02/2025
You can ignore climate change. The political system can ignore climate change. But the insurance industry cannot ignore climate change.
nytimes.com
Opinion | That Giant Sucking Sound? It’s Climate Change Devouring Your Home’s Value.
A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The real hierarchy of needs
Pyramid with levels labeled from the bottom up:
- not having to use Teams
- not having to use Jira
- not having to use Salesforce
- food shelter water
- money love etc.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Just let it hit already
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unreal🌱garden @unreal-garden.com · 06/02/2025
I gave a talk on Slate in Unreal Engine as part of JetBrains GameDev Day, and the individual video is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3oIfI7nBM #UnrealEngine
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
the dems are not gonna save us, and just like last time, we are gonna have to force them to even help. only we can save us. i believe we will and when we do, it’s time to replace those fucking losers
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
An impressive 8 year run..
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Been a month, so time for a new #MMORPG post. This one is a bit annoying as it stumped me for a few weeks and made me break my build trying to debug it properly. But I'm back, updated dependencies, and ready to implement a necessary fix: wirepair.org/2025/02/01/n... #gamedev
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Netcode, Physics and Lag Compensation Woes
As I’ve been continuing my attack animations and combat system, I started to notice sometimes my hits weren’t registering. Up until now I’ve done no client side correction of serv…
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Jesus, this site is all US politics :/.
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 31/01/2025
“It wasn’t hard to spot you since you’re the only ones willing to use it without being forced.”
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Probably better off just looking at talkback.sh/resources everyday (it’s what I do!)
talkback.sh
Talkback
Talkback is an AI-powered infosec resource aggregator to be more productive with cyber security content.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
20 out of 20, fuck me.
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unreal🌱garden @unreal-garden.com · 19/01/2025
New Unreal 5 Search It's like Duck Duck Go for your game. benui.ca/unreal/editor-search #UnrealEngine
New Unreal 5 Search
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 16/01/2025
Just sayin…
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Did you give up on mastodon? Only see you post here now :p
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unreal🌱garden @unreal-garden.com · 12/01/2025
Semi-official but somewhat outdated plugins from Epic, posted to GitHub. A lot of them haven't been updated in a while but they could still be useful to learn from. github.com/ue4plugins #UnrealEngine
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Marc Rogers aka cjunkie, head of security at Defcon and responsible for modernizing their enforcement against harassment and assault, has suffered a devastating spinal cord injury and faces catastrophic medical expenses. Please donate if you can & share regardless. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...
gofundme.com
Donate to Support Marc Rogers' Road to Recovery, organized by Katie Vogel
cjunkie (Marc Rogers) is an invaluable and beloved member of our hacker community: a… Katie Vogel needs your support for Support Marc Rogers' Road to Recovery
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Yeah, nah @icesurfer.bsky.social . Fuck me dude 2115!?
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
First post of 2025, calculating root motion from animations server side: wirepair.org/2025/01/01/c... #gamedev #mmorpg
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Calculating Root Motion, Server Side
New Year, new post! In my last post I was able to extract all the root motion data from the animation sequences I bought. I still need to apply that motion data to my characters on both the server …
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Interesting choice in muffler design
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Didn’t even realize o3 was announced but this is a good take youtu.be/kjOxkPl3RGo?...
youtu.be
are we cooked w/ o3?
YouTube video by ThePrimeTime
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
X-mas eve post on extracting animation data from exported FBX files from UE5 AnimSequences: wirepair.org/2024/12/24/e... #gamedev
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Extracting and Evaluating Animation Data
I treated myself to an early x-mas gift of buying a bunch of stock animations from the fab.com store. I bought four packs, Sword and Shield (also comes with 2H animations), Spear and Shield, Mage, …
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Random Alphonse Mucha exhibit in Yokohama shopping mall was a lovely unexpected surprise.
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Niki Tonsky @tonsky.me · 21/12/2024
I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning
Diagram with large number: 2.7.123
First “2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release
Second “7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases
Third “123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
/me lifting up my kids bed briefly /him what did you just do? /me i didn't attach a bomb or anything don't worry /him wait what? /me if you hear any ticking just ignore it /me tick, tock, tick, tock fuck me i love having a kid
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I made a simple diagram almost everyone can follow
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Bass music is just the right balance of chaos, beat and melody. Dubstep has the chaos, little beat and no melody.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
i bet if you trained an LLM on MR/PRs it would have a 50% chance of just responding LGTM to any MR/PR you give it.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The wild history of gremlins (I love monstrum) youtu.be/m2vzTNrFU6s?...
youtu.be
Why Did WWI Pilots Think Monsters Were Sabotaging Their Planes? | Monstrum
YouTube video by Storied
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Now that is some proper goal setting
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 07/12/2024
you could, hypothetically-speaking, take the concept of canary clauses to build a web scraper. it could be run against the Fortune 500 and identify companies removing their leadership team pages as a way to identify and boycott places where they’re consciously aware they’re causing harm
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
o1 can, indeed, answer the age old question:
asking openai o1 how many r's are in the word strawberry and it gets the correct answer.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Must be terrifying knowing that someone who you’ve never met has the power to destroy your life
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I’m too used to being able to edit my posts like on mastodon.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Feature, ugh.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Clearly they have their heads in the ground. What an insane gesture to have in 2024
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
taking fight promos to the next level: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_d...
youtube.com
THE BEST PROMO EVER! 😮‍💨 | Turki Alalshikh releases EPIC trailer for Oleksandr Usyk v Tyson Fury 2 🔥
YouTube video by TNT Sports Boxing
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
now that, i can get behind.
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wirepair @wirepair.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
another victim of live services and "seasons" shit is so tired.
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