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I am aware of the current issues surrounding the Project Zomboid Map. The POI backend has to be rewritten completely as I was stupid enough to think that Ruby-on-Rails was a good choice for a backend back then. Unfortunately, it won’t even start up anymore today without so much as...

I’m gearing up for an experiment: I want to use my Android phone without GApps. Completely without. That also means no installing applications from Google Play, no cheating via Titanium Backup. Sideloading is allowed iff the application has an official download on its own website. Other allowed sources: F-Droid, Humble...

After trying for a while to get all the Makefile special characters encoded for a bash command to run, I’ve finally given up. I’m doing this now: Before (random example, much worse lines in there): map_files/19/0_42.png: bash -c 'convert xc:transparent -background transparent -page +0+0 map_files/20/0_84.png $$( [ -e map_files/20/1_84.png ]...

I’m so angry, I could write a blog post! Wait, I can write a blog post! Here goes! What am I angry about? Pokemon GO raids not working for me the last couple weeks. Why does that make me angry? Because the reason for it being broken is lazy/buggy/stupid programming!...

On Saturday I started playing Pokemon GO with my nephew. He is 9 years old and a huge Pokemon fan. In theory, this is a good idea, I like video games, he likes Pokemon and he definately needs supervision during gameplay so he doesn’t run into anything from trees to...