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Gen 3 and Beyond: Editing C to Hack Pokemon

I'm not gonna lie, I get super nervous writing these articles out of fear of divine punishment from Nintendo-sama, but besides focusing on my new server repair role and learning how to survive 5 o'clock traffic (as well as reconnecting with some old friends), I haven't been doing much since...

Getting my Benedict C***B*** on with SQL Murder Mystery

Oh man, it's been a hot minute! I moved again, was sick for 2 weeks, took a weekend off to help my kid's mom move into her new place, and spent at least a day trying to come up with a less outrageous title for this article but WE'RE BACK...

That's What She `sed`

Hey guys! Today, as you might've guessed, we're gonna be talking about the sed command! Sed is (as defined by the manpage) a "stream editor for filtering and transforming text." This is a fancy way to say that you can edit the text of a file (as well as standard...

Getting Fish-y With My Servers

So, anybody that knows me knows that I'm a huge fan of Oh-My-Zsh with the zsh shell. With the right plugins it makes an awesome terminal experience and I've been a huge fan since a friend introduced it to me a little over a year ago. Now this friend actually...

Why I (Almost) Never Use File Explorers

2023 was a crazy year for sure, I started by deleting the Windows partition on my laptop (my only device at the time) and switched to Debian, then Arch Linux full-time to really dig down into Linux. But the real fun started when I discovered tiling Window Managers and decided...

Getting Hip to Tmux

This article almost feels overdue, but honestly already using a tiling WM made putting off learning/using Tmux pretty easy but use cases kept popping up, mainly when I'm learning coding on my laptop. I usually default to my study screen being half one terminal window running Zathura with whatever book...

(Reluctantly) Embracing the Cloud

Initial disclaimer, I've never really been big on cloud services. I try to host all of my stuff locally, but I am just running services for my private network so I've never had to worry about scaling or any of the other trepidations of hosting services meant for public consumption....

Becoming a Pokemon Master by Hacking Assembly

Greetings! Today's article is going to be a fun one for sure. I'm sure that many of you are at least semi-aware of the ROM hacking scene where people take their favorite games and alter the data to make their own custom version, and we're going to look at one...