About me

I'm Pakulichev, a developer. Today I build web services; before that I spent years making mods and servers for GTA: San Andreas. In that community I'm also known as ImPasha (the current name of my BLAST.HK account) and Pavel_Garson, the nickname I played under on Advance RP.

I'm the author or co-author of SL:MP, Police Tools, ImGUI Editor and SNET, a former moderator of the BLAST.HK forum and a sponsor of The SA:MP Coder contest.

How I got into development#

It started with SA:MP role-play servers. I played as a police officer on Advance RP, there was a lot of routine, and in late 2017 I started writing Police Tools. It was my first big Lua script, and I was only just learning Lua at the time. A year later the project had about 10,000 lines of code, and even users of paid competitors were switching to it.

Around the same time, on October 28, 2017, I registered on BLAST.HK. I published source code, answered questions and eventually became a forum moderator.

From scripts to networking and servers#

By 2019–2020 I was more interested in architecture and networking than in individual scripts. In those years I:

• wrote an interpreter for my own language, "Simple Language";
• built SL:MP with SEVEN, a GTA: San Andreas multiplayer written entirely in Lua, with a LuaJIT server for Windows and Linux and its own UDP protocol;
• moved the networking code into a separate library, SNET;
• wrote the ImGUI Editor visual UI editor in C++.

KITTEN DEV TEAM#

In the SA:MP community I had my own developer group, KITTEN DEV TEAM. That's where the cat in this site's logo comes from; its eyes are two text cursors.

Web development#

Over time the web became my main work: Node.js and PHP backends, APIs, messenger bots, databases and Linux servers. Closer to the web were the live SA:MP map in the browser, built with ca4tuk and Conradk10, and the BlastPHP PHP library for the forum.

Skills#

Open source#

I published the source code of Police Tools, ImGUI Editor and SL:MP so that people could learn from it.