I write about programming and other computery stuff.https://blog.svgames.plcopyleft 2017-2026 by suve (CC-BY-SA 4.0)en-GBReminiscing about an old game project that I've had laying around and rotting away for the last 8 years.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:17:17 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/the-new-old-wolfA short story about debugging and how sometimes what's true is false. Starring everyone's favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:14:14 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/the-little-bool-of-doomA short (or so I hoped) venture into replacing the SSD in my Thinkpad X220 laptop.Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:00:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/replacing-the-ssd-in-my-laptopI went on a journey to get Rust code running on Android. While I arrived at a very workable solution, some of the roads taken along the way turned out to be dead ends. In this article I describe both the good, and the bad.Wed, 05 May 2021 12:45:00 +0200https://blog.svgames.pl/article/running-rust-on-androidI describe how to cross-compile C programs from Linux to Microsoft Windows using MinGW.Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:12:13 +0200https://blog.svgames.pl/article/cross-compiling-c-programs-for-ms-windows-using-mingwOne day a friend of a friend showed us his commercial CMS and asked if we'd like to do some pentesting. I describe the vulnerabilities discovered and how I used them to gain remote code execution.Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:36:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/gaining-code-execution-through-a-broken-cmsOne day I had this naughty idea to browse through public code on GitHub and look for any Slack Webhook URLs laying around.Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:45:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/scraping-slack-webhooks-from-githubSlides from my talk about popular FLOSS licences (Hacktoberfest Poznań Meetup, October 2017). Available in English and Polish.Sun, 18 Nov 2018 09:45:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/slides:copyleft-and-copyfree-a-short-overview-of-popular-licencesSlides from my talk about non-programming ways to support Free Software (Hacktoberfest Poznań Meetup, October 2018). Available in English and Polish.Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:00:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/slides:not-only-code:other-ways-you-can-support-free-softwareI describe the approach I use for drawing 2D tile maps, which could be observed in Alexland, Super Overachiever 42000 Deluxe, and Platformer.Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:25:00 +0200https://blog.svgames.pl/article/drawing-tile-maps-in-2D-gamesCollecting my thoughts on the latest Ludum Dare compo – what I did well, what went wrong, what lessons are there to learn.Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:15:00 +0200https://blog.svgames.pl/article/ludum-dare-42-post-mortemI describe the Linux virtual machine setup I used to slighly elleviate the pain of being forced to use Microsoft Windows at work.Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:30:00 +0200https://blog.svgames.pl/article/leveraging-a-linux-vm-inside-microsoft-windowsSlides from my talk about package lifecycle in Fedora (Poznań Free Software Event XIII, April 2018). Available in English and Polish.Mon, 28 May 2018 14:20:00 +0200https://blog.svgames.pl/article/slides:package-lifecycle-in-fedoraThis article describes the many stages of the package lifecycle inside the Fedora Linux distribution – from the package's introduction, through maintenance, until retirement.Tue, 15 May 2018 11:45:00 +0200https://blog.svgames.pl/article/package-lifecycle-in-fedoraI describe my home-made weather station that displays the inside & outside temperature for the last 24 hours. Built using an Arduino, two DHT22 sensors and an ILI9341 LCD display.Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/setting-up-an-adruino-and-dht22-weather-stationThis article describes how to build multiple packages from a single RPM spec file, and how to handle conflicting files.Sun, 14 Jan 2018 18:45:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/building-multiple-packages-with-rpmThis article aims to serve as a basic guide on how to write a man page, starting out with a bit of history regarding roff, going through basic typesetting, and later venturing into man page-specific macros and conventions.Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/writing-man-pagesThis article describes how to parse options inside bash scripts, starting off with a handwritten solution and later venturing into usage of getopts.Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:30:00 +0100https://blog.svgames.pl/article/parsing-options-in-bashThis article describes how to create a basic RPM package, from setting up the environment, through writing the spec file, to building the package itself.Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://blog.svgames.pl/article/basics-of-rpm-packaging