https://waxthe.dev/blog/ FiveM, software, AI and tooling — field notes from Wax, a working developer. en-us Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://waxthe.dev/blog/fivem-cef-crash-forensics/ https://waxthe.dev/blog/fivem-cef-crash-forensics/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMTfivem Crash forensics on a live FiveM city: how I traced random client crashes to a CEF/NUI resource and streaming memory pressure, the tools that isolate it, and how to stop guessing. https://waxthe.dev/blog/fivem-server-authoritative-economy/ https://waxthe.dev/blog/fivem-server-authoritative-economy/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTfivem Server-authoritative design for FiveM economies: why client-trusting scripts get money-duped, how I hardened a resource against it, and what to demand from any paid QBCore script. https://waxthe.dev/blog/small-desktop-tools-csharp/ https://waxthe.dev/blog/small-desktop-tools-csharp/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTtooling A case for writing tiny purpose-built desktop utilities instead of suffering the ecosystem's gaps: the C# tools I built for FiveM asset cleanup, and how to know when to build one yourself. https://waxthe.dev/blog/ai-discord-whitelisting-bot/ https://waxthe.dev/blog/ai-discord-whitelisting-bot/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai How I used the Claude API to score roleplay whitelist applications inside a Discord bot: the prompt design, the human-in-the-loop safety rails, and what AI should and shouldn't decide. https://waxthe.dev/blog/why-hand-code-static-sites/ https://waxthe.dev/blog/why-hand-code-static-sites/ Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTweb Page builders are everywhere, so why hand-code? A working developer's case for static, hand-built websites for local businesses: speed, control, cost, and no platform lock-in. https://waxthe.dev/blog/fivem-streaming-optimization/ https://waxthe.dev/blog/fivem-streaming-optimization/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTfivem A live-city case study in FiveM streaming optimization: finding oversized YTDs and duplicate archetypes, why they wreck memory and load times, and the tooling I built to fix it at scale. https://waxthe.dev/blog/welcome-building-in-public/ https://waxthe.dev/blog/welcome-building-in-public/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTmeta The story behind waxthe.dev and the plan for this blog: FiveM engineering, hand-coded web, AI integrations and the desktop tools I build — all from live production, not theory.