Portrait of Dusty, my orange fluffy dragon fursona. Art by derFisch

Dusty

Hi, I'm Dusty, or Chloride Cull, or whatever name you'll find me using. I work as a Software Developer, and do some programming in my spare time too. I do some hardware stuff as well, and some infosec stuff.

I'm ace/aro, my gender is complicated, and my pronouns are he/him.

You've got my social links below, or to the right, depending on your screen size.

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Chloride Cull, waving a pride flag Chloride Cull, trotting and breathing

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Cracking Enterprise Software for Fun and no Profit

Ever since I was a broke teen, I've had an interest in reverse engineering software, and cracking it. I've always been one of those weird people who want to run a bunch of enterprise software.

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Artwork gallery for commissions

I've created an artwork gallery for all my commissions, as well as spiffed up the styling a bit. Feel free to take a look - and see below for a behind the scenes look on how it's done.

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.well-known/button.json support!

I've just added support for /.well-known/button.json with a button of my own.

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Analyzing a prolific adware downloader

Let me start with the TL;DR; - there's an adware network that's been running since at least 2015, and is still active today. I start pulling on the thread by analyzing an infected file from 2018.

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My #CheapPCChallenge2022 entry

As I'm writing this, I've just finished with the scoring benchmarks for my entry to Shyra's #CheapPCChallenge2022. I decided to go for something a bit extreme - taking the word cheap to the next level - and plenty of spanners were thrown in the works along the way. I'm surprised I got it as far as I got it!

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My Rimworld Mod Recommendations

Thought I should compile a list of mods I recommend for RimWorld. Unless otherwise noted, these are all compatible with version 1.3 of the game.

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Chronicles in Reverse Engineering: Gumroad


Updated

Update 2022-02: They've added automatic zip downloads some time since I wrote this.
Update 2024-10: Guess what? They've removed it again. Time to dig out the code, I suppose.

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Back to Web 1.0

I've decided to make this place objectively more fun, and less sterile. Here's a side by side comparison, for funsies - you can click them to open the screenshots in fullscreen.

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Important Message

Chloride waving a flag

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Oh look, a blog

Thought this would be better than the old single page with an image. Need some place for longer technical stuff, I suppose.

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