https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/ Assorted projects and writeups. en Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/posts/temporary-ipv6-addresses-when-your-network-is-smaller-than-a-slash-64.html https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/posts/temporary-ipv6-addresses-when-your-network-is-smaller-than-a-slash-64.html Playing fast and loose with some IPv6 concepts in order to have nice things. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/posts/inspecting-uncommitted-postgresql-transaction-state-externally/poc.html https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/posts/inspecting-uncommitted-postgresql-transaction-state-externally/poc.html An exploration of what can be done about that by way of hijacking PostgreSQL connections. Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/egatrop/ https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/egatrop/ Portage in reverse: Utilities for creating containers (or container layers) from Gentoo Linux systems. Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/DBSamizdat/ https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/DBSamizdat/ PostgreSQL database view/function/trigger manager, lets you keep their canonical state in Git. Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/django-enum.IntFlag-field/ https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/django-enum.IntFlag-field/ A Django model field that takes an enum.IntFlag class, stores flag combinations as an IntegerField, and allows convenient bitwise containment predicates through the Django ORM. Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/baseAnything/ https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/baseAnything/ A Python package for encoding/decoding integers into/from a series of symbols. Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/jsonmason/ https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/jsonmason/ Deconstruct JSON into assignments, mangle them at will, and reconstitute JSON from the assignments. For instance. Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/posts/tarvertise-put-a-message-in-your-tarballs.html https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/posts/tarvertise-put-a-message-in-your-tarballs.html With video! Exploit a bug in GNU Tar to display messages (or pictures. or videos even) when someone extracts your tar archive file. Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/posts/deduptar-the-tar-that-deduplicates.html https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.org/posts/deduptar-the-tar-that-deduplicates.html The tar that deduplicates. Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/django-dbsemaphore/ https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://pypi.org/project/django-dbsemaphore/ A Django app that gives you multi-ticket DB-defined semaphores implemented on top of DB row locks. Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://github.com/blinkingtwelve/appelflap https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://github.com/blinkingtwelve/appelflap An Android Geckoview website wrapper that can exchange website updates in a P2P fashion. Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://crates.io/crates/arghsh https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://crates.io/crates/arghsh A login shell for SSH RPC that safely passes through your argument vector. Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0000 https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://hex.pm/packages/postgresql_uri https://curiosities.nontrivialpursuit.orghttps://hex.pm/packages/postgresql_uri An Elixir module to parse PostgreSQL URIs into keyword lists (for use with Postgrex).