Hey

I'm quaternary, but you can call me quat. I write Minecraft mods.

I've also been working on maintaining Gradle tooling for decade-old Minecraft Forge versions, experimenting with cursed Gradle megaprojects to ease the updating and backporting workload, and learning a bit of Rust. Previously I made a bunch of Portal 2 test chambers.

Rrrrarh! 🐲

Let's talk

To ask a question about my Minecraft mods, please join my public Discord or send a CurseForge message.

For other inquiries, email me: quat@highlysuspect.agency

Blog posts

• Aug 13, 2024 A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of modloaders (DRAFT)
  From base-class edits to Launchwrapper and beyond.
  minecraft
  
• Aug 9, 2024 RSS feed is back; misc updates
  And other things you don't care about
  misc
  
• Jul 24, 2024 On writing
  From the notes app
  misc
  
• Jun 4, 2024 How to download Java
  Every player who visits Oracle's website is a failing on behalf of the community.
  java
  
• Apr 23, 2024 Reflectively constructing enums at runtime
  Extending Java enums at runtime. What could go wrong?
  java
  
• Nov 30, 2023 Registry deep dive
  Ok how does the registry system work *actually* in 1.20.1
  minecraft
  
• May 11, 2023 The Treadmill
  When that thing you like slowly turns into a live-service game
  minecraft
  
• Apr 02, 2023 Let's look at Stepmania's code
  A look at the oldest dance game codebase.
  games
  
• Oct 25, 2022 How the hell do you use the command line
  And other things you learned ten years ago and forgot how to teach.
  design
  
• Oct 03, 2022 Where has all the memory gone? (DRAFT)
  Let's browse a Forge 1.18 modpack heap dump.
  minecraft
  
• Nov 30, 2021 Updating to Fabric 1.18 notes
  Aggregated notes on updating mods to Fabric 1.18
  minecraft
  
• Sep 09, 2021 What the hell is a good build system (DRAFT)
  cause it sure as hell isn't Gradle
  java
  
• Jun 08, 2021 Updating to Fabric 1.17 notes
  Aggregated notes on updating mods to Fabric 1.17
  minecraft
  
• May 26, 2021 "Unable to get Windows mutable environment variable map"
  Old gradle, Java 16, $JAVA_HOME, and you
  java
  
• May 16, 2021 Fabric 1.16 Datagens (DRAFT)
  Quick notes on setting up datagens in a Fabric 1.16 mod
  minecraft
  
• May 06, 2021 How to play Portal 2 without losing your mind
  My keybinds and setup for playing Portal 2
  games
  
• Mar 20, 2021 Good title for my puzzle game
  A little Puzzlescript game!
  games
  
• Mar 16, 2021 Obligatory Haha New Website Post (DRAFT)
  What I learned making this new site! (Ummmm its outdated now)
  design
  
• Feb 6, 2020 how 2 angry lex.md
  Unfinished, short guide to setting up 1.12 coremods
  minecraft
  
• Jan 19, 2020 Fix stuff being broke in IntelliJ
  On fixing old ForgeGradles with new IntelliJs.
  minecraft
  
• Jan 19, 2020 Overview of Resource Reloading in 1.14.4/Fabric
  On the new resource reloading system introduced in 1.14.
  minecraft