https://prule.github.io/pauls-blog/tags/protobuf/Recent content in Protobuf on Pauls BlogHugoen-usThu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://prule.github.io/pauls-blog/post/coding/2026/ai-assisted-development-1/Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://prule.github.io/pauls-blog/post/coding/2026/ai-assisted-development-1/<p>Building useful software is the best way to learn. Building useful software <em>for a problem you actually have</em> is even better.</p> <p>I race in Assetto Corsa Competizione. I wanted a proper dashboard for analysing lap times. So I started building one.</p> <h2 id="the-real-goal">The Real Goal</h2> <p>Two goals, really. First: something genuinely useful. Second: a vehicle for practising software development - and increasingly, for understanding how AI tools fit into a real workflow.</p>https://prule.github.io/pauls-blog/post/coding/2026/protobuf-and-grpc/Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://prule.github.io/pauls-blog/post/coding/2026/protobuf-and-grpc/<h1 id="remote-controlling-a-simulator-with-grpc-and-protobuf">Remote-controlling a simulator with gRPC and Protobuf</h1> <p>I have an Assetto Corsa Competizione (ACC) simulator that replays recorded UDP traffic. It is a useful test fixture, but it had a problem: to start or stop a session you had to be at the same machine, running the JVM process directly. Anything that wanted to drive the simulator as part of a larger pipeline — a Cypress test, a dashboard demo, a teammate on another laptop — had no way in.</p>