Hey

I'm quaternary. I'm an undergrad at the Ohio State University.

I primarily write Minecraft mods, contribute to a third-party launcher, work on tooling for decade-old Forge versions, and wrangle terrible Gradle megaprojects.

I also build Portal 2 tests and take pictures.

Contact

• To ask a question about Minecraft mods, join my Discord or shoot a CurseForge message.
• Email: quat@highlysuspect.agency
• Mastodon: @quat@types.pl
• (nsfw) Bluesky: @highlysuspect.agency

Blog posts

• Halfassed response to John Gruber

  Apr 6, 2025

• About digital gardens

  Making excuses.

  Jan 25, 2025

• "Good enough" Javascript bundling

  (it's esbuild)

  Jan 24, 2025

• Who is Bright Data? Into the "Create: Protection Pixel" junkware

  (UPDATED Jan 28)

  Jan 23, 2025

• Blanksky

  Dec 01, 2024

• I don't really know what "December Adventure" is?

  Nov 30, 2024

• Why can you define Javascript classes with dynamic names?

  Examining a short Javascript snippet.

  Nov 29, 2024

• I am still very tired of my friends being used as political footballs

  Nov 6, 2024

• Neko Atsume is a game where you can pay to miss the point of the game

  A weak defense of a free-to-play mobile microtransaction game? Can't believe I'm doing this

  Oct 24, 2024

• How to at least *start* updating your mod to 1.21

  Sep 21, 2024

• A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of modloaders (DRAFT)

  Aug 13, 2024

• RSS feed is back; misc updates

  Aug 9, 2024

• On writing

  Jul 24, 2024

• How to download Java

  Every player who visits Oracle's website is a failing on behalf of the community.

  Jun 4, 2024

• Reflectively constructing enums at runtime

  Extending Java enums at runtime. What could go wrong?

  Apr 23, 2024

• Registry deep dive

  Ok how does the registry system work *actually* in 1.20.1

  Nov 30, 2023

• The Treadmill

  When that thing you like slowly turns into a live-service game

  May 11, 2023

• Let's look at Stepmania's code

  A look at the oldest dance game codebase.

  Apr 02, 2023

• How the hell do you use the command line

  And other things you learned ten years ago and forgot how to teach.

  Oct 25, 2022

• Where has all the memory gone? (DRAFT)

  Let's browse a Forge 1.18 modpack heap dump.

  Oct 03, 2022

• Updating to Fabric 1.18 notes

  Nov 30, 2021

• What the hell is a good build system (DRAFT)

  cause it sure as hell isn't Gradle

  Sep 09, 2021

• Updating to Fabric 1.17 notes

  Jun 08, 2021

• "Unable to get Windows mutable environment variable map"

  Old gradle, Java 16, $JAVA_HOME, and you

  May 26, 2021

• Fabric 1.16 Datagens (DRAFT)

  May 16, 2021

• How to play Portal 2 without losing your mind

  May 06, 2021

• Good title for my puzzle game

  Mar 20, 2021

• Obligatory Haha New Website Post (DRAFT)

  Mar 16, 2021

• how 2 angry lex.md

  Unfinished, short guide to setting up 1.12 coremods

  Feb 6, 2020

• Overview of Resource Reloading in 1.14.4/Fabric

  On the new resource reloading system introduced in 1.14

  Jan 19, 2020

• Fix stuff being broke in IntelliJ

  On fixing old ForgeGradles with new IntelliJs.

  Jan 19, 2020

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