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Twitch fell behind
So you want to do live streams. Are you sure? Okay. Let’s talk about it.
Let’s talk numbers
Being a “content creator” (sorry for those who hate that term) is a job, for sure, and many people do it, successfully, full-time, they pay rent with it etc.
Platforms like Twitch & YouTube would have you think that, if you put in enough effort, you can grow your channel from nothing to 🎉 profitable ✨ in just a few short years.
crates.io phishing attempt
Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack.
It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages).
The phishing e-mail looks like this:
And it leads to a GitHub login page that looks like this:
Several maintainers received it — the issue is being discussed on GitHub.
The crates.io team has acknowledged the attack and said they’d see if they can do something about it.
Parsing and serializing ICMP packets with cookie-factory.
In the last part, we’ve finally parsed some IPv4 packets. We even found a way to filter only IPv4 packets that contain ICMP packets.
There’s one thing we haven’t done though, and that’s verify their checksum. Folks could be sending us invalid IPv4 packets and we’d be parsing them like a fool!
This series is getting quite long, so let’s jump right into it.
Cross-platform game distribution
ooc makes it easy to compile your application on all major platforms (Windows, OSX, Linux) - the compiler itself runs there, and the SDK supports all these platforms with basic functionality: data structures, file handling, time handling, networking, etc.
But between getting your application running on your dev environment with all the libraries installed, and getting it into a neat package for your users to run without having to install any dependencies by hand, there’s a bag of tricks. Fortunately, I have found the time to figure most of them out. I’ll try to explain these in detail here as clearly as possible, here in this article.
Game Design: The Binding of Isaac
In hours, I have played more of The Binding of Isaac than any other game in my Steam library. Edmund McMillen said he wasn’t expecting it to be a hit, and has since proceeded to be proven thoroughly wrong.
It is kind of a big deal among a certain crowd: as I’m writing this, the second season of the Binding of Isaac Racing League, hosted and commented by Crumps, is in full swing - even though the game was certainly not designed for that!
That health is mental
Disclaimer:
Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide.
It’s been a while since I wrote a mental health piece — but I think it’s important to occasionally stop, take a breather, and think about how we feel.
So.
deep breath
I’m okay, I think? Just a little restless.
A bit of personal context
For those keeping score, I went through major life events in 2023 — a divorce, a move, and the news that I might need a second round of jaw surgery.
Improving error handling - panics vs. proper errors
Before we move on to parsing more of our raw packets, I want to take some time to improve our error handling strategy.
Currently, the ersatz codebase contains a mix of Result<T, E>, and some
methods that panic, like unwrap() and expect().
We also have a custom Error enum that lets us return rawsock errors, IO errors,
or Win32 errors:
pub enum
rawsock
stdio
oocdoc, Part 2 — brummi
In the previous article, we saw how to use NaturalDocs, a language-agnostic documentation generator. Today we’ll see how to use brummi, a tool specific to ooc, written by Friedrich Weber.
Generating .json files
The first step to generate docs using brummi is to use rock,
to generate a set of .json files describing the code. The --backend
command-line option allows to select which backend you want rock to use
(the C backend is the default).
The many rewrites of the itch.io desktop app
I started working on the itch.io desktop app over 4 years ago.
It has arguably been my main project ever since, along with companion projects like butler, capsule and many smaller libraries.
I’m fuzzy on the initial history, but I remember the codebase went through a lot of changes. As early as 2014, the whole codebase was ported from vanilla JavaScript to TypeScript. In 2016, I released a timeline of all the changes. In 2018, I released a postmortem for v25 (which I then deleted).