nickkesh

OP-17 Blue Rocks Decklist

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700

My current Blue Rocks decklist for the One Piece Card Game.

OP-17 Green Shanks Decklist

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0700

My current Green Shanks decklist for the One Piece Card Game.

Building onepiecedex.com

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0700

I picked up the One Piece Card Game last year and found myself constantly sending screenshots of decklists to friends. The problem was the tooling - there were no simple ways to send interactive decklists. Most of the deck builders I tried wanted me to make an account, sat behind a slow backend, or buried the cards I wanted under a wall of ads. I just wanted to filter a card pool, drop cards into a list, and send my friend a link. So I built onepiecedex.com.

OP-16 Blue/Green Luffy Decklist

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700

My current Blue/Green Luffy decklist for the One Piece Card Game.

OP-15 Purple Enel Decklist

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700

My current Purple Enel decklist for the One Piece Card Game.

EB-03 Blue/Red Vivi Decklist

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800

My current Blue/Red Vivi decklist for the One Piece Card Game.

OP-14 Red Trafalgar Law Decklist

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800

My current Red Trafalgar Law decklist for the One Piece Card Game.

OP-14 Green Mihawk Decklist

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800

My current Green Mihawk decklist for the One Piece Card Game.

Halo 2: Gateway to a Security Career

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 07:00:00 -0800

Back in late 2004, Bungie rocked the world of online gaming with the launch of Halo 2 for the Xbox.

This was before cloud computing was mainstream, and hosting dedicated physical servers was an expensive task, so many developers (including Bungie) chose to go with the cheaper option - a distributed networking architecture. The architecture is simple: one client is chosen to be the game server (referred to as the “host” for the rest of the blog) and the other client would connect to it as the source for the current state. When things like latency issues arise between clients, the host’s version would be the one that is taken as the official record.

nickkesh.com v2.0

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 22:45:30 -0800

Decided the old site needed love. Serving content using ExpressJS seemed archaic and is frankly overkill for what I wanted; a simple, clean, and fast website.

I mentioned this to my roomate and he suggested I check out Hugo, an open source project that leverages the use of Go Templates to generate websites. I opened up the quick start guide and started to browse the templates. ~3 hours later this site was up and running!

About me

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 22:08:33 -0800

I work on security at Stripe. When I’m not behind a keyboard, I like to hike, bike, read, and game.

Striving to become a slightly better engineer every day. If you’d like to work on something together, shoot me a note!