Month: June 2022

Here are some of the “source” photos helping me recall details about our old house in Brooklyn. Backyard Interior Shots Google Street Shots...

I have always wanted to revisit my childhood home (876 East 35th Street). This weekend, I recreated it in Minecraft (beside my current home). I need to decorate the interior and build some secret passages building upon childhood imagination. UPDATE – Garage and patio added...

Version 1.19 is here. We had to wait a couple of extra days for the Vanilla team to update their version and for James Chambers to update his amazing setup script. I prepped the world by deleting some “infrequently” used blocks (“chunks”) with the Server Mods installed Dynmap-3.4-SNAPSHOT-spigot.jar floodgate-spigot.jar...

This is actually pretty crazy… https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-run-a-really-powerful-free-minecraft-server-in-the-cloud...

I found a pretty cool tool, DynMap, that can help illustrate my Minecraft world. It potentially boarders on cheating, but I will try to control myself. Above is a via of my basecamp, including a recreation of Stately Payne Manor. Here is a 2D view that includes my base,...

William has been complaining that his Nintendo Switch “joycon” is suffering from drift again. Apparently, this is a chronic design flaw of the controller that resulted in a law suit and a poorly publicized repair program. I returned both boys’ controllers once and am not sure Nintendo will fix...