Each chunk in Minecraft contains the "inhabitedTime" tag, which should indicate how much ticks players have been in this chunk. But that's actually wrong.

Just a quick reminder that Minecraft 1.18 (Or "Cave and cliffs part 2") requires Java 17, which is another step up from Minecraft 1.17 requiring Java 16.

Handling mods in the default Minecraft launcher is a bit of a pain, let's switch to MultiMC instead!

Are you tired of Nether portals always linking to other people's bases? Would you like to fix that? Be sure to read these caveats then!

We're launching the 3rd season of the blackblock.rocks server on Friday the 20th of November at 20:00 CET!

It will be an even more vanilla experience than last season (no more mcMMO or fast-travel portals) and the server will be at version 1.16.4.
Anyone over the age of 18 can apply to join 🥳

Strict mode (aka STRICT_TRANS_TABLES) makes the database, well, more strict when it comes to manipulating data. In my case, an older PHP app was inserting new rows, but because some column values were not specified on the PHP side AND those columns did not have a "default" value set in the database, it threw an error. Fixing this "the right way" wasn't really possible, so I wanted to just disable the strict mode.

Newer Linux distributions have started disabling older ciphers in the SSH server, but what if you really need one of those old ciphers?

For those who are not too happy with all the other scorecards out there, here's my version.

I actually did not want to make this announcement just yet, I felt like I needed to wait for a proper, working version of what I was building. But 3 months have passed, and my colleague's thought what I created was pretty cool already and that it would be interesting if I shared my progress with the world.

Upon popular request, here is the guide to installing Amarok 1.4 on Ubuntu 12.04. Not a lot has changed, really, just a few more files were needed from older repositories. Good luck!