Emma

Rails Needs New Governance Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

A variety of crows based on real species are on a pastel background. The surroundings are filled with sparkly effects that crows love. The birds are smiling gently or playfully and look happy and joyful.

Happy crows 🐦‍⬛

My DQXLauncher UI is starting to come together, it might be usable as soon as tomorrow?????? Weird

I'm in Boston today and saw these and thought "nice amaurot reference" and then I remembered this comic again

Y'shtola

Does Lumina know something I don't? Should I lick FFXIV?

Happened upon a new level of incompetence from Squenix devs:

The Dragon Quest X launcher's webview identifies with a User-Agent of "User-Agent: SQEXAuthor/2.0.0(Windows 6.2; ja-jp; 4c2c0069c2)"

They repeated the header name in the header body......

Made a github repo for my DQX launcher, aiming for a 1.0 this weekend! Just gotta clean up the UI and build a fun lil coroutine-driven login system 😌

This is why it's so important that we fight to keep physical media from disappearing

Going to balmung like

Progress on my DQX launcher, it's built with WinUI in C# and it can't yet launch the game (I need to implement the funny stuff they do to generate the SessionID from the Auth response) and it looks like dookie but it's starting to take shape

The "sane" answer that ChatGPT suggested to me is "just dump it in a json file and choose between Local and Roaming by the Microsoft service"

MSDN says in a few places that they got rid of Roaming in Win11, but also their advice is "system specific stuff in Local, user specific stuff in Roaming" which is actually pretty solid. But they also want you to put stuff in the registry in Local and Roaming keypaths too 😔

A week ago I was heavily relying on an asm cheat sheet and reading every line to add comments, today I kinda just skimmed through stuff in IDA and went "yeah I get the gist of it" so I think the skills are coming back

I am absolutely the fuck not storing a damn thing in the registry in the year of our lord 2025, the registry is Satan

I just wanted to know how I should store settings. The answer is "don't use the stuff Microsoft recommends it's just the registry, use json"

I hate to admit it but ChatGPT is a big help trying to comprehend the clusterfuck of Windows APIs. MSDN sure is useless lmao

*tips fedora* m'qote

So I figured out how the Dragon Quest -StartupToken works and… it's just `sprintf("%d%u", timeGetTime(), mt_rand())` XOR'd with "SqEx"[i & 3]

Since they seed MT with the HWRNG, I'm betting they ignore the entire %u section when validating

Ryan Salami? What's next... Kevin Bacon?

Now that I've brushed up on calling conventions and all the million jump operations I feel like I'm actually comprehending the disassembled code lol

I think this code is intentionally fucking with me too. Shit's calling std::_random_device for something which SHOULD be deterministic! At first I thought "Ah a seeded rng, clever" but no, random_device is unseeded real randomness????

Tbf I haven't touched either since dabbling in them in college… literally half my life ago

🧡

harassing the developers of chess for making it woke

Turns out my assembly and reverse engineering skills are rustier than I thought 😭 gotta brush up

Trying a bunch of different disassemblers out to see which ones "fit" since I basically haven't used one since I was a teenager with a questionable copy of IDA

So far, I'm a big fan of Binary Ninja 👀

Playing Dragon Quest X somehow gave me an excuse to properly learn reverse engineering just to make the English patch tools better

It deserves something on par with Dalamud

Using Object.assign on a new String() is a bit deranged and probably deoptimizes but it's so fucking nice for tests that it's kinda worth it

Syntax-highlighted code for a temporary file/directory API. Full code is discoverable in the attached Github Gist link.

Made a small utility for making a temp directory or file on top of @chronicles.org's amazing Symbol.dispose API!

Just `using file = temporaryDirectory()`, returns a string, directory gets released at the end of the block.

gist.github.com/NuckChorris/...