February 16, 2023
Minecraft Mob Spawning
An outline of Minecraft mob spawning mechanics
Hello, I'm Adrian. Welcome to my blog, a loose collection of technology-related ramblings on various topics. Hopefully, you'll find them interesting.
February 16, 2023
An outline of Minecraft mob spawning mechanics
January 11, 2023
Was your Minecraft server recently joined by a user named "masscan", bringing you to my blog? It's not me!
December 29, 2022
The fascinating algorithms behind the quintessential image format.
December 28, 2022
You were a hell of a year.
October 3, 2022
It's probably a color profile issue.
August 21, 2022
A guide on how to configure Nginx to store requests in an SQLite table.
August 16, 2022
Some pictures we took at DEFCON 30.
August 7, 2022
It's time to get real. *badum tss*
July 24, 2022
Utilizing DNS tomfoolery for fun and profit. Well, actually, just fun.
June 24, 2022
Deconstructing the new chat reporting feature to understand its implications for the game.
June 14, 2022
A tutorial on how to decompile modern versions of Minecraft using Mojang's official mappings.
May 9, 2022
How your friends are getting pwned by Discord's terrible QR code login.
March 31, 2022
Searching four billion IP addresses for friends to play with.
February 25, 2022
Learn how TLS secures the modern web by examining a real session, down to the byte level.
February 4, 2022
It's as stupid as it sounds.
January 23, 2022
Examining an often-overlooked component of the Internet: how are domains resolved, anyways?
January 13, 2022
Taking apart an attempted Log4Shell attack on my Minecraft server, with some interesting discoveries.
January 4, 2022
So what makes this thing tick, anyways?