miniblog.

A surprising number of websites will reject packets if they have the evil bit set!

Today I needed a library that takes a regular expression and gives you a string that matches. https://github.com/fent/randexp.js fits that need nicely. Unfortunately, reading the docs has introduced me to evil patterns like /a^/ and /\1 (a)/. Yikes.

Cute/evil trick for writing a Rust script using a shell header that's a valid Rust comment! https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/self-compiling-rust-code/