In this blog post, we’re gonna see some places where I find music. Some of those are paid, some of those are free.

First, let’s go over some good players:

• XMPlay - Probably the most accurate MOD player out there
• Foobar2000 - Also a really good player, multi-platform as well
• VLC - Plays everything, though badly for some files

Most of the music I listen to are modules (or MODs), to get those, I have a few places:

RSS, standing for Really Simple Syndication, is a really good and easy way to get all your news right onto your computer.

While the standard is fairly old now, being older than me, it still fills its purpose wonderfully.

To have a simple outlook, RSS allows you to get news from feeds made available by websites and aggregate them into a software.

Some good RSS readers include:

• RSSGuard - A good desktop reader
• Tiny Tiny RSS - A web-based reader
• NewsBoat - A cli-based reader

Finding RSS feeds is also easy. You can find them by searching online for them or looking for the RSS icon on websites (small dot with the three lines going out like a broadcast).

Recently, I’ve received some e-mails from so-called “AI” startups, wanting me to join them to develop their product.

I will be blunt: don’t bother. I’m not interested.

I’m not interested in your startup that resells the OpenAI API under a fancy interface.
I’m not interested in your startup that has no plans for the future beyond “we’ll see when we get more funding”.
I’m not interested in your startup that wastes incredible amounts of resources just to hallucinate results and for the whole thing to fall down in a year when the funding expires.

As you may know, I made a mod for the platform Resonite¹ that allows you to export metrics from the game as OpenMetrics² data readable by Prometheus³ amongst other software.

In this post, we’re gonna see:

1. How to setup a basic Resonite headless on Windows
2. How to install the Resonite mod loader
3. How to install the Headless Prometheus Exporter mod
4. How to install and configure Grafana and Prometheus to scrape the metrics

First, some pre-requisites:

I really started blogging back in 2020, although I posted some stuff before, it’s only from that point on that I started posting semi-regularly.

As you may know, my last post on my main blog was back in December 2023, which is already more than half a year ago.

It’s this blogging journey that led me to create OverEngine¹, that slowly became way more than I thought, now hosting a blog, documentation, a wiki and many other things.