I’ve recently been engaging in some tomfoolery to acquire a list of 51 million Minecraft: Java Edition player UUIDs (out of ~61 million total existing UUIDs).| mat does dev
In 2020, tired of every search engine seemingly having suboptimal results and missing the instant answers I wanted, I decided to make a search engine for myself.| mat does dev
matscan is a Minecraft bot that joins potentially vulnerable Minecraft servers and sends a message in chat to inform the admins.| mat does dev
Gemini is a protocol similar to HTTP, in that it’s used for transmitting (mostly) text in (usually) a markup language. However, one of the primary goals of Gemini is simplicity. Requests are always a single TLS/TCP connection with the route, and a correct response looks like 20 text/gemini\n\rhello world\n. Additionally, Gemini uses a language called “Gemtext” as its markup language. It’s kind of like Markdown, but even simpler. Every line can only contain a single type of data, so fo...| mat does dev
For several years I’ve occasionally logged onto Shodan and searched for Minecraft servers. I just join, look around, and maybe leave a sign for the server owner. I’d also occasionally heard stories about people making their own Minecraft serverscanners.| mat does dev
This post is outdated, I rewrote my website to use mdsvex.| mat does dev
I wrote this story on the Hypixel Forums a while ago, but I realized it would be a good idea if I posted it on my blog too.| mat does dev
So a few days ago my friend Slip got a DM on Discord from this “Twitch” bot asking him to invite it to my servers as well as to join theirs. The message the bot said claimed that Discord and Twitch had partnered up to give its users free Nitro Games and free Twitch Prime.| mat does dev
A domain hack is a domain in which both the top level domain (TLD) and the second level domain (SLD) are combined to make up a word or phrase. For example, matdoes.dev is a domain hack for mat does dev.| mat does dev
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This portfolio contains my blog posts and links to some of the projects I've made.| matdoes.dev
There’s an internet web game slash social experiment thing called Internet Roadtrip that started a few months ago, where players collectively “drive” a car on Google Street View and can vote for which directions to go in. Here’s the website if you’d like to look at it before reading the rest of this post: https://neal.fun/internet-roadtrip.| matdoes.dev