Brian flizzer

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

CVE-2020-0601

General

Microsoft disclosed a vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday referenced under CVE-2020-0601.
The vulnerability was discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency, anounced today (2020-01-14) in their press conference, followed by a blog post and an official security advisory.
The flaw is located in the "CRYPT32.DLL" file under the C:\Windows\System32\ directory.

Vulnerability explanation

NSA description:
NSA has discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-0601) affecting Microsoft Windows® cryptographic functionality.

CVE-2020-0601 AKA ChainOfFools OR CurveBall

General

Microsoft disclosed a vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday referenced under CVE-2020-0601.
The vulnerability was discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency, anounced today (2020-01-14) in their press conference, followed by a blog post and an official security advisory.
The flaw is located in the "CRYPT32.DLL" file under the C:\Windows\System32\ directory.

Vulnerability explanation

NSA description:
NSA has discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-0601) affecting Microsoft Windows® cryptographic functionality.

nflscrapR Python Guide

This is an introduction to working with nflscrapR data in Python. This is inspired by this guide by Ben Baldwin.

Using Jupyter Notebooks which come pre-installed with Anaconda is typically the best way to work with data in Python. This guide assumes you are using the Ananconda distribution and therefore already have the required packages installed. If you are not using the Anaconda distribution, install numpy, pandas, and matplotlib.

Once Anaconda has been downloaded and installed, open the Anaconda Navigator. Click launch on the Jupyter Notebook section which will open in your browser.

Collecting and Cleaning Data

There are a couple ways to get nflscrapR data. While you don't necessarily need R for historical data, it is necessary for getting data that has not been uploaded to github. My preferred process is to get data u

Git sees every file in your working copy as one of three things:

tracked - a file which has been previously staged or committed;
untracked - a file which has not been staged or committed; or
ignored - a file which Git has been explicitly told to ignore.

Ignored files are usually build artifacts and machine generated files that can be derived from your repository source or should otherwise not be committed. Some common examples are:

dependency caches, such as the contents of /node_modules or /packages
compiled code, such as .o, .pyc, and .class files

Description

Cheatsheet for LaTex, using Markdown for markup. I use this with atom.io and 📦markdown-preview-plus to write math stuff. 📦keyboard-localization is necessary when using an international layout (like [swiss] german).

Further Reference and source: ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/doc/amsmath/short-math-guide.pdf

Example expressions / functions

	$UpdateSession = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session
	$UpdateSearcher = $UpdateSession.CreateupdateSearcher()
	$Updates = @($UpdateSearcher.Search("IsHidden=0 and IsInstalled=0").Updates)
	$Updates \| Select-Object Title