Overview Managing Python virtual environments can be tedious. Creating, activating, installing dependencies, switching between projects… it adds up. So I built venv_setup - a comprehensive CLI too...
Happy New Year! The Relay That Spans Two Years! That’s right - my Tor relay CipherStream has been running since 2025 and is STILL going strong in 2026! Technically that means it’s been up for an ...
Overview This post documents a frustrating Jekyll/GitHub Pages issue: posts pushed to the repository but not appearing on the live site. I’ll walk through the debugging process, my mistakes, and t...
Overview This walkthrough covers TryHackMe’s “The Game” room - a CTF challenge that involves reverse engineering a Tetris-like game built with the Godot engine. The goal is to find a hidden flag b...
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....
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 ...
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, ...
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...
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...
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 ...