jmhobbs Blog

Poking at a format and seeing what's hidden inside.

A follow up to the 2024 original, this post covers the custom packed format DayZ uses in response to the A2S_RULES query, enumerating mods and keys.

Sometimes you don't want anyone else touching that.

Saving time and my wrist editing gifs using Python-Fu

Let's use Go to poke at UTF-8 encoded text and better understand the most common encoding in the world.

I've had my repos listed on my GitHub pages for 14 years, it was time to revisit it.

Recently I've been playing a lot of DayZ, through the DayZSA launcher.

Look at my birb friend!

Generated Open Graph images, without driving a browser.

Boxes: Harder than you thought.

While implementing a CHIP-8 emulator, I came across a new concept.

After four years of keeping bees, here are some things I've learned which I don't remember seeing in the beginner books I've read.

Unauthenticated AES works even if you have the wrong key.

A look at how the Authy authenticator app works, in the pursuit of securely backing up my MFA tokens offline.

After 17 years with WordPress, it's time for something different.

I interact with pinenty daily, but I don't really understand it.

Cult of the Party Parrot is a fairly simple static site, but it pushes a lot of traffic.

A list of short SHA's can be hard to read, wrapping them in color can help.

Cloud Build is a nice tool for continuous building of your Docker images.

go func(partyordie bool) {...}()

After a decade it's time to create a new GPG key.

Why let a chicken hatch your eggs when you could make a Raspberry Pi do it?

Show your currently playing song as your Slack status from Google Play Desktop Music Player.

Spoofing MAC addresses with Python through Alfred

Integrating with Twilio to allow reporting code of conduct violations over SMS or voice.

Manually issuing and installing a Let's Encrypt certificate on Dreamhost

Automating review of random image selection for an iOS app.

Setting up a cheap prepaid phone as an alternative to using the emulator.

My talk covering Redis basics at HDC15