A collection of satirical, parody, and comedic software projects. Security theater, absurdist tooling, and deliberately bad implementations — all engineered to a suspiciously high standard.
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| befunge93-vault-cracker | Satirical UI demonstrating esoteric programming absurdity vs. overengineered security theater. Uses Befunge-93 to "attack" an imaginary cryptographic vault. |
| blue-screen-of-app | Humorous web app displaying authentic Blue Screen of Death errors across four Windows generations (XP, 7, 10, 11). Built with Deno and ReScript. |
| dicti0nary-attack | Security research parody utility for generating and testing non-dictionary passwords. Demonstrates that creative misspellings are not security. |
| safe-brute-force | Controlled, ethical brute-force utility with automatic safety pauses every 25 attempts. An OTP gen_statem state machine written in LFE. |
These projects exist to:
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Illustrate security anti-patterns through deliberate absurdity
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Explore esoteric and unusual programming paradigms
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Demonstrate that humor and rigorous engineering are not mutually exclusive
All projects are fully implemented to Rhodium Standard Repository (RSR) quality standards despite their comedic subject matter.
Each sub-project is an independent git submodule with its own build system, tests, and CI workflows. See the individual project READMEs for build instructions.
This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. See
the LICENSE file for details.
SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Jonathan D.A. Jewell <j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk>