I've written quite a bit about Minecraft on this blog. For better or worse, it has defined a large chunk of my life. But there inevitably had to be a time where I'd have to make the transition to a "real" job. Making this adjustment was painful but necessary.
In classic Steinborn fashion, I forgot about my 2023 dispatch until August 2024(!), and it wasn't necessarily a sufficient explanation of what had actually gone on. So it's time for me to digest all of 2024, and also try to be way more detailed about what went on, but I wound up starting on this post on New Years' Eve. Why is that, you might ask?
I recently upgraded my gaming computer from Fedora 38 to 40 and it didn't go as planned. I went through a bunch of pain to attempt to fix my partially-completed upgrade, but luckily I was able to complete the upgrade. Here, I took some notes of the process I used to rescue my system.
Well, it has only been... 2 months since I last did this exercise. But I've been thinking about this for a while, even as I was redoing my previous design. This time around, I decided to just go ahead and do it and see where the cards fell, and I was very pleased with the result I came up with.
I have spent a lot of time in the time in the Minecraft server scene. I've been highly visible, in both my good and bad moments. But perhaps my most substantial and consequential project in that scene, specifically the Velocity Minecraft server proxy, is the most interesting story to tell.
Who built the Burj Khalifa, standing high above gleaming Dubai? Did the Emirati royals smelt the steel? Would they ever be forced to toil in the desert heat?
Well, it sure has been a while since I last updated this website back in the far away time of... October 2022. Naturally this means I now need to go in and actually give it a refresh, especially as I am trying to make this website a little bit more than a blog that gets an article roughly semi-annually, and start exploring doing more creative writing along with deeper technical reads.
I would've written about 2023 some time ago, but quite a few developments happened in my life... and so, I held off for a bit. But now I am back to tell the story of 2023. It was probably one of the most stressful years in my life.