I run Apache as my main web server. There’s rarely a need to modify anything but when there is, it’s usually quite simple. That’s mainly why I never bothered to switch to nginx. Over the course of last month I had to change two things, here’s a short summary.

Windows. Huh. I didn’t anticipate me writing about Windows here. Thankfully, it’s going to be a rant about drivers. I’ve got three short stories that all happened somewhere earlier this year. The first one chronologically is about one of the computers at work.

Grand Theft Auto III is the first game in the 3D universe of the series. It lets you cruise around Liberty City in various vehicles. Most of them are equipped with regular radios. However, there are two sets of vehicles that either don’t have radios or override the radio station with some random police chatter.

I sometimes stream some silly things on my twitch channel. At 1st of October we had a semi-blind race with friends from the PolishSpeedrunners community in Grand Theft Auto IV. It took around 10 hours for the last person to finish, you can find the summary on the racetime.gg page. GTA speedrunning community has always had a knack for filling the empty screen space creatively.

I have a lot of free time now since I quit my job at the end of August. A couple days ago I was hanging out on PolishSpeedrunners Discord voice channel and I heard a conversation about an old Polish racing game – Maluch Racer 3 (also known as Bambino Rally 3 and 2Fast Driver 2; you can buy it on Steam). The issue one guy had was related to the fact that he had a 4K monitor and the game UI didn’t scale up with the resolution at all. In fact, it looks like it was made for 640x480 or 800x600 at most.

Some time ago I read a bit about FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) and I wanted to do some small project to test it out. Since I’m using an IRC gateway for chatting on Slack I thought I could craete a simple FUSE driver to let me access our cat images channel with the usual tools just as if they were on my local disk.