One thing you learn when running your own webserver is just how unfriendly the internet can be. Within moments of enabling your HTTP ports, malicious bots will immediately start scanning you, looking for vulnerabilities. It’s not too hard to lock things down; you have to be careful and meticulous and always keep up to date with the current best security practices. But that still leaves one problem: the bots make a mess of your log files.

Reiterate is a tool to help you improve yourself. It fits into a long and somewhat ignominious category of self-help tools.

In this follow-up to Why Players Int I take a closer look at Communion Skills.

In gamer terminology, to “int” means to intentionally feed, that is, to basically give up and allow your opponent to kill you repeatedly. Sometimes the term is used loosely, when a player might exclaim, “I’m totally inting” when he makes a poor play. But originally (and still) it can mean when someone isn’t trying at all, and in fact is helping the opposing team as much as they can. In this post I’d like to discuss that extreme form of inting.

Tap-to-acknowledge is an upcoming feature in the next release of Reiterate

Muting and Filtering

30 Sep 2021
4 minute read

Reiterate offers two ways to turn clips off. You can mute clips, and you can also filter them. What’s the difference, and why would you want to use one vs the other?

What exactly is a username? I came across a very interesting article which goes into detail on what makes a good username.

I’ve spent this week upgrading my server to the latest Debian release (bullseye).

Authorio 0.8.5 fixes bugs that were found through field testing.

If you want to improve, you have to focus on yourself. That sounds simple, but there’s more to it than you might think.