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h4ckz0r3d—Getting the Blog Up and Running Again

August 16, 2012      Meta-blog      esdin      no responses

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Sometimes, bad things can slip on to your servers. They dig themselves in, and for those of us who haven’t delved into web development, their arcane motions remain nigh untraceable. When they finally manifest, they do so as a hydra, each painfully researched solution curing a single head of attack but ultimately revealing more teeth. Sometimes, the best thing to do is to nuke the whole thing from orbit. Some things I’ve learned for the future:

  1. Always build secure .htaccess files. 
  2. Keep everything up to date. 
  3. Always assume an infection is deeper than it first appears
  4. Don’t rely on your host’s backups—keep your own!
     

If you’ve been to my site in the past, I’ve had posts on games I’ve worked on, discussions of GDC, a theorem of Twitter as a neural network, and an attempt to summarize the growing body of research on ‘what motivates people to play’. I still have that database backed up, and maybe one day I’ll extract some of the better posts and put them up in the archive, but for now, I’m starting fresh!

 

I’ve been unable to update this site for nearly three weeks now, and so I’ve got plenty to talk about. Particularly, I’ll be digging in to some recent titles I’ve played on the Playstation Vita, and talking about some challenging problems in a few of the projects I’ve been working on. I’m also dying to reflect on Game Industry interview processes, and I’ve also been procrastinating on starting a weekly “game log” project (I call them glogs, but my friends have threatened to hurt me if I use that word in conversation). Once I finally bite the bullet and start that project, I’ll go over the sure-to-be-fun process of picking out the engine and getting the first version—which will likely be more of a ‘summer best’ collection than a week—pushed onto the site.

 

Sorry that everything’s so sparse now, and I’ll be trying to stick to getting a post out at least once every other day if not more—internet, hold me to this or I’ll never learn! Thanks for stopping by, and hope to see you again!

 



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