My TryHackMe Journey: 33 Rooms and Counting!
New Year, New Hacking Goals! It’s January 1st, 2026, and I wanted to share my TryHackMe progress. What started as curiosity has turned into a genuine passion for cybersecurity and ethical hacking....
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Hacker News New Year Roundup: Bluetooth Hacking, LLMs, and Rust Without Borrow Checker
New Year’s Day Tech Roundup Starting 2026 with a dive into what’s trending on Hacker News! Here are the most interesting stories making waves in the tech community. 🔐 Security Alert: Bluetooth ...
UTM Kali Linux Network Troubleshooting on macOS (M1/M2/M3/M4)
Overview This guide covers common network issues when running Kali Linux in UTM on Apple Silicon Macs (M1, M2, M3, M4). If your Kali VM can’t connect to the internet, network icon keeps spinning, ...
Setting Up a Tor Relay on macOS: Complete Guide with IP Rotation
Overview This guide documents setting up a Tor relay on macOS (M4 Max MacBook Pro), including troubleshooting issues, port forwarding on a Vodafone Gigabox router, monitoring with nyx, and creatin...
CTF Steganography: c4ptur3-th3-fl4g Walkthrough
Overview This post documents my journey through the c4ptur3-th3-fl4g CTF steganography challenges. I’ll share the problems I hit, the mistakes I made, and how I solved each task. If you’re learnin...
Unifying the Emoji Toolkit: From Fragmentation to Smart Scripting
The Problem: “One File to Rule Them All” We started with a classic developer situation: fragmentation. Our Emoji Toolkit was split into multiple personalities: emoji-aliases.sh: The functional ...
Docker on Mac: Solving the CLI Connection Error & Understanding the 64GB VM
The Problem You open your terminal, ready to hack, and type docker ps or try to start a container. Instead of a list of containers, you get this error: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix...
Sweep - VulnLab Full Walkthrough (TJnull OSCP List)
Overview Sweep is a medium-difficulty Windows machine from VulnLab, featured on TJnull’s OSCP preparation list. This box focuses on Active Directory enumeration, Lansweeper exploitation, and creat...
Setting Up Claude Code with MCP Servers in Kali Linux
Overview Getting Claude Code working with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Kali Linux opens up powerful capabilities like database access, web search, and context management directly from y...
Chirpy Categories and Tags: How to Organize Your Jekyll Blog Like a Pro
Why Organization Matters When I started blogging, I just threw posts up without thinking about structure. Big mistake! As your blog grows, finding content becomes a nightmare - both for you and yo...