iamcal.com Since May 2000

May 18th: This write up on finding arbitrary code execution in ExifTool is interesting both because it's Perl code that I used almost 20 year ago (and is still the best way to do it!), and that it's a great explanation of finding and exploiting vulnerable code.

May 9th: While researching the different colored bands for bundles of American bank notes, I found this fascinating page about the rules for US currency deposits.

May 4th: It's been three and a half months since I got PHP CI working on Travis, so of course it's now broken. Github Actions are the new hotness, so I figured out the right magical config to run multi-version CI for PHP over there instead, and it runs much faster too.

Apr 19th: More in the single-serving-webapps-for-games category - a lovely little app for exploring the artifacts in Egg Inc. The web is such a good platrofmr for developing and delivering these micro-apps.

Apr 5th: Using machine learning to find the lowercasest and uppercasest letters.

Mar 31st: If you're playing Stardew Valley (there's a been a bit of a resurgence with the recent updates), then I recommend using Stardew Profits. I love these little single-serving webapps that do exactly what you need and are served from github.io.

Feb 9th: This is one of the most perfectly evil things I've seen in a while - edible fake silica gel pouches