Welcome to the Web Servery
This is a collection of web services I use in my own projects.
Help yourself!
Australian Public Holiday Checker
The public holidays of Australia are decided on an ad hoc basis by our crazy politicians, so they can't be predicted, we just have to wait for them to be handed down. Usually we get to know them a year or two ahead, except when they are related to "footy". In that case, the footy people get to decide on a whim, whenever they like, and the politicians obey them and issue the decree.
If you need to know whether a particular day is a particular holiday in a particular Australian state, send the day and state to this service and get an answer back like "NORMAL", "SATURDAY", "SUNDAY", "QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY", "LABOUR DAY".
Australian public holidays - API Playground
and a cool example of the output See upcoming holidays
Bank Statement Madness
Helps you work out what that cryptic and suspicious transaction on your credit card or bank statement actually means
This one grew up and moved out in 2026 : Bank Statement Madness
Standard for International Shipping Addresses
Here is my standard, as I needed to code this in the early 2000's and couldn't find anything that worked
I found out a few years later that Chinese addresses can't reliably be crammed into my structure - they need an extra line. Oh well
Fixed Width Text to Image
Sometimes I need to email people data that is tabular and depends on using a monospaced fonts for alignment. This simple script turns your plain text into a .png image, so you can email it and know the recipient will be able to see it as you intended. You could do this with pdf of course, but ain't nobody got time for that.
Have a crack at it here: Fixed Width Text to Image