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 ![Picture of Eric Carmichael](content/images/kayak.jpg)
 
-<p align="center"><b>"This is like my tenth time on a kayak, I'm pretty cool"</b> <br> &mdash; Eric Carmichael on Fernan Lake, Idaho</p>
+<p style="text-align: center;"><b>"This is like my tenth time on a kayak, I'm pretty cool"</b> <br> &mdash; Eric Carmichael on Fernan Lake, Idaho</p>
 
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content/Diablo 2 AutoIt OCR.md

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Title: Wayback machine - Diablo 2 AutoIt OCR
+Date: 2016-6-26 15:10
+Category: diablo 2
+Tags: diablo 2, C#, hacking
+Status: draft
+
+asdfasdfadsf

content/Diablo 2 Botting.md

@@ -1,23 +1,112 @@
-Title: The coolest thing I've ever done: my Diablo 2 Bot
-Date: 2014-5-15 15:10
+Title: The coolest app I've built: Diablo 2 Botting
+Date: 2016-6-26 15:10
 Category: diablo 2
 Tags: diablo 2, C#, hacking
-Status: draft
 
 
-To be honest my favorite project (ever) was a Diablo II bot I made ~10 years ago. If you've never played the game Diablo II, it's your typical nerdy Dungeons and Dragons kind of collect gear + level up + beat up monsters type of game. 
+My favorite project (ever) was a Diablo II botting system I made ~10 
+years ago. If you've never played the game Diablo II, it's your typical 
+nerdy Dungeons and Dragons kind of collect gear + level up + beat up 
+monsters type of game. 
 
-The bot I made was "clientless," meaning it tracked the entire game state itself, replied to every packet appropriately, and didn't require a game running. That meant I could run 1000's of bots on a regular computer instead of 2-4 games that soaked up all of the memory/CPU. Normally this wouldn't be possible, most bots required the game to be running to generate the maps. I made an API wrapped around a map generator and sold 1000 map generations for $1, this is what powered my bots and made them special!
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
+    <img src="images/d2/ingame.jpg" alt="Diablo 2" style="max-width: 500px;">
+</p>
 
-Not only could the bot run without the client, that was pretty cool, but also the bot required 0 configuration. Normally, you'd have to edit some .ini or something similar outlining your character, where to put items, what skills to use, some kind of script to do attacks in a smart way (i.e. for ranged attacks position yourself far away).
+## Diablo II Automation Progression
 
-What my bot did, instead of reading some .ini file, was look directly at your character and infer a good build! This was like Heroku for Diablo II bots. You just pointed my bot at your character and it took over. If you had, for example, the "lighting bolt" spell maxed out, the bot would assume the "RangedAttack" pattern and stay at a decent distance while staying in line of sight. If you had no items or skills, the bot would smartly be able to at least punch the monsters!
+I got to make a ton of automation tools for this game:
+
+ * started with [AutoIt](http://autoitscript.com) bots that moved based 
+ on the pixels on the screen
+ * an AutoIt OCR (which I'll cover in another article later) that helped 
+ me pickup nice items
+ * bots that no longer used pixels, instead memory and packet injection
+
+
+<iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xqemOAJQBOU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+packet injecting bot
+</p>
 
-One of the other cool pieces of this bot was the task queue based module system. Every action in the game was fired off by some module, and executed by being pulled off the task queue. For example, I had modules Mover, Killer, Item Pickup, and Chicken. Mover module could get it's own whole paragraph, but to summarize it used the non-client based map generation to stitch together all of the required maps to get from point A to point B. Meaning, you could ask the Mover module to go to the last place in the game from the first point in the game, and it could stitch every map together giving you all of the waypoints + quests required to get to that location.
+But, the coolest bot I made was "clientless" meaning: it tracked the entire game 
+state itself, replied to every packet appropriately, and didn't require 
+a game running. That meant I could run 1000's of bots on a regular 
+computer instead of 2-4 games that soaked up all of the memory/CPU. 
+Normally this wouldn't be possible, most bots required the game to be 
+running to generate the maps. I made an API wrapped around a map 
+generator this is what powered my bots and made them special! 
 
-The task based queue was especially useful. Consider if you were moving from Point A to Point B and some monster smacks you to half health, how will the bot react? The Chicken module will add a "very high" priority task to get the hell out of that area! 
+This would have been impossible without the amazing reverse engineering techniques
+in the Diablo II hacking community. There were entire public wikis
+dedicated to definitions for each packet and memory structure. Pretty
+cool stuff to be noodling on when you're still in highschool!
 
-Other cool parts of this bot were: CD Key rotator for running many bots at once sharing a pool of keys, entire website payment gateway + API, and an undetectable maphack that can reveal the map on a completely separate computer.
+## Undetectable maphack
+
+I made a neat maphack to test out the map generation API:
+
+<iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pL7K58Cdo5Y?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+Maphack
+</p>
+
+This maphack was novel in that it didn't do anything inside the game
+that changed memory or hooked into anything in a strange way. It simply
+got the map seed (so it could run on a totally different computer) and
+generated all the maps in the game, then stitching each together.
+
+Also, the maphack could do some not-so-undetectable things like hook
+into the game and inject "teleport this way" packets until you reach
+the destination.
+
+## Finally, clientless bot
+
+<iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9epvPv-mD1Y?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+Bot pathing around the map
+</p>
+
+
+Not only could the bot run without the client, that was pretty cool, but 
+also the bot required 0 configuration. Normally, you'd have to edit some 
+.ini or something similar outlining your character, where to put items, 
+what skills to use, some kind of script to do attacks in a smart way 
+(i.e. for ranged attacks position yourself far away).
+
+What my bot did, instead of reading some .ini file, was look directly at 
+your character and infer a good build! This was like Heroku for Diablo 
+II bots. You just pointed my bot at your character and it took over. If 
+you had, for example, the "lighting bolt" spell maxed out, the bot would 
+assume the "RangedAttack" pattern and stay at a decent distance while 
+staying in line of sight. If you had no items or skills, the bot would 
+smartly be able to at least punch the monsters!
+
+One of the other cool pieces of this bot was the task queue based module 
+system. Every action in the game was fired off by some module, and 
+executed by being pulled off the task queue. For example, I had modules 
+Mover, Killer, Item Pickup, and Chicken. Mover module could get it's own 
+whole paragraph, but to summarize it used the non-client based map 
+generation to stitch together all of the required maps to get from 
+point A to point B. Meaning, you could ask the Mover module to go to the 
+last place in the game from the first point in the game, and it could 
+stitch every map together giving you all of the waypoints + quests 
+required to get to that location.
+
+<iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kGcE9SBIJ68?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+Bot picking stuff up
+</p>
+
+The task based queue was especially useful. Consider if you were moving 
+from Point A to Point B and some monster smacks you to half health, how 
+will the bot react? The Chicken module will add a "very high" priority 
+task to get the hell out of that area! 
+
+Other cool parts of this bot were: CD Key rotator for running many bots 
+at once sharing a pool of keys, entire website payment gateway + API, 
+and some pretty impressive API performance using fancy caching techniques
+with IO pooling.
 
 The whole project was built in about 2 months with C#, PHP and JS!
 

content/How Im using RiotJS and Django REST Framework.md

@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ Title: How I'm using RiotJS and Django REST Framework
 Date: 2016-3-23 15:10
 Category: web development
 Tags: python, web development, riotjs, django, django rest framework, drf
-Summary: Yo man, what lib you using these days, Angular? React? Vue? Skrible? SomeOtherMadeUpNameJS? What about another one: RiotJS!? <p align="center" class="image-wrapper"><img src="images/riot.png" class="img-responsive" alt="RiotJS"></p> We'll take a high level look at the tools I'm using on my current projects for making frontend <-> backend work fast and elegantly, in my opinion ;) 
+Summary: Yo man, what lib you using these days, Angular? React? Vue? Skrible? SomeOtherMadeUpNameJS? What about another one: RiotJS!? <p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper"><img src="images/riot.png" class="img-responsive" alt="RiotJS"></p> We'll take a high level look at the tools I'm using on my current projects for making frontend <-> backend work fast and elegantly, in my opinion ;) 
 
 
 Yo man, what lib you using these days, Angular? React? Vue? Skrible? SomeOtherMadeUpNameJS?
 
 What about another one: RiotJS!?
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <a href="http://riotjs.com/"><img src="images/riot.png" class="img-responsive" alt="RiotJS"></a>
 </p>
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ We'll take a high level look at the tools I'm using on my current projects for m
 </todo>
 ```
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/neapolitan.jpg" alt="HTML/JS/CSS Neapolitan"><br>
 </p>
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ router.register(r'addresses', views.AddressViewSet, 'addresses')
 
 Now I have all of these endpoints available to modify/view Addresses, WITH documentation!
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/api_docs.png" alt="API Docs"><br>
 </p>
 
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ looking for little communities centered around similar principles so I don't hav
 and greatest way to solve the same CRUD problems we face every day. By the time I learned AngularJS a lot of people
 had already jumped ship.
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/programmer.jpg" class="img-responsive" alt="Smart Programmer">
 </p>
 

content/Linux on Windows 10.md

@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ Finding I have to install glibc and gcc via brew first???
 
 
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/valley_girl.jpg" class="img-responsive" alt="Valley Girl">
 </p>

content/My favorite pytest plugins.md

@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ scheduling tests via LoadScheduling
 
 Changes our test output from this:
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/pytest-no-spec.png" alt="Pytest without spec output"><br>
 </p>
 
 To this:
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/pytest-spec.png" alt="Pytest Spec output"><br>
 </p>
 

content/Streaming Django Responses On Heroku.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Not enough people use this helper!
 
 Here's a small example "Valley Girl" stream
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/valley_girl.jpg" class="img-responsive" alt="Valley Girl">
 </p>
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ work for you. So, so handy!
 
 Watch out for problems with your WSGI servers and buffering data.
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/buffering.jpg" class="img-responsive" alt="Buffering problems">
     <i><small>Buffering problems</small></i>
 </p>

content/Top 5 best gaming documentaries of all time.md

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ Title: Top 5 gaming documentaries of all time
 Date: 2015-5-11 15:10
 Category: gaming
 Tags: gaming, competition, mindset
-Summary: The best of gaming competitiveness, attitude, culture and raw skill. To me these are the documentaries I'll look back at like my dad looks back at Superbowl 1. <p align="center" class="image-wrapper"><img src="images/top_5_gaming_docs/brood_war.jpg" alt="StarCraft: Brood War"></p>
+Summary: The best of gaming competitiveness, attitude, culture and raw skill. To me these are the documentaries I'll look back at like my dad looks back at Superbowl 1. <p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper"><img src="images/top_5_gaming_docs/brood_war.jpg" alt="StarCraft: Brood War"></p>
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/top_5_gaming_docs/brood_war.jpg" alt="StarCraft: Brood War"><br>
 </p>
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ and always promoting a positive attitude.
     frameborder="0" 
     allowfullscreen>
 </iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"My Life of Starcraft"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ and disappointment we've all faced. Whether it's dealing with our own problems o
     frameborder="0" 
     allowfullscreen>
 </iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ they destroyed earlier, and then come back for dramatic close wins.
     frameborder="0" 
     allowfullscreen>
 </iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"The Smash Brothers Documentary"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ hard work and tremendous sacrifice.
     frameborder="0" 
     allowfullscreen>
 </iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"Word Wars"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -154,6 +154,6 @@ Dota 2 competitive scene. Millions of dollars are on the line!
     frameborder="0" 
     allowfullscreen>
 </iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"Free to Play: The Movie (US)"</i>
 </p>

content/Transitioning from helpless to helpful.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ I felt like writing this because I've just realized that I now hang out in [#dja
 and actually spend most of my time giving back instead of taking. To me that's a huge achievement that deserves some
 attention, at least.
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/im_helping.jpg" alt="I'm helping!"><br>
 </p>
 

content/best pycon 2014 videos.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ I haven't watched every single Pycon video so please be sure to recommend your f
 interesting ways to reverse engineering/research a huge codebase.
 
 <iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RZ4Sn-Y7AP8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"Discovering Python"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ are looking out for my best interests. They want me to be happy and feel welcome
 and do my best&mdash;no reason to worry!
 
 <iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/1i8ylq4j_EY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Battling the Invisible Monsters in Tech - PyCon 2014"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ around with python! Imagine flying this into your family and friends via iPython
 This also goes into quite a bit of arduino stuff which is something I am trying to get into, pretty interesting.
 
 <iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jJ1vjr1dDqw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"Cheap Helicopters In My Living Room"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ I think this guy is a pretty good speaker to model yourself after. He was confid
 really enjoyed this presentation.
 
 <iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/R8Xmeynf1T4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"Cache me if you can: memcached, caching patterns and best practices"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ friendly. My favorite part was probably the flow chart "if you have less than 50
 
 
 <iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/O7IezJT9uSI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"Enough Machine Learning to Make Hacker News Readable Again"</i>
 </p>
 
@@ -123,6 +123,6 @@ What I thought stood out about her presentation was concrete ideas/details, like
 
 
 <iframe width="640" height="360" class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4QOoAw6Su7M?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-<p align="center">
+<p style="text-align: center;">
 <i>"Keynote"</i>
 </p>

content/chin up.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ There are two types of metrics:
 It is meant to be hosted locally/somewhere free, like [Heroku](http://heroku.com).
 
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/chinup/input.png" alt="Input data every day to Chin Up" class="image-full-width">
 </p>
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ numbers and statistics.
 
 ## Ease of use
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/chinup/pin_passcode.png" alt="django-pin-passcode screen">
 </p>
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ It logs you in to the user you define after you enter a certain passcode compose
 
 ## Stats
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/chinup/stats.png" alt="highchart stats" class="image-full-width">
 </p>
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ It logs you in to the user you define after you enter a certain passcode compose
 
 ## Correlations
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/chinup/correlations.png" alt="Correlations" class="image-full-width">
 </p>
 

content/coeur d alene web developers.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stay with my mum. I picked back up web development and here I am today about thr
 
 ## Why North Idaho?
 
-<p align="center" class="image-wrapper">
+<p style="text-align: center;" class="image-wrapper">
     <img src="images/cda_web_dev/killarney_lake.jpg" alt="Killarney Lake" class="image-full-width"><br>
     <i><small>Killarney Lake</small></i>
 </p>