Week starting: 11th May 2026
A solid week on the community front, with some meaningful builds shipped on the side.
What I worked on
Community Sessions:
Presented at HTB Zimbabwe on notetaking in cybersecurity
- Session titled The Hacker’s Notebook
- Covered documentation habits, workflows, and why structured notetaking compounds over time
- Good engagement from the community
Presented at HTB Uganda
- Walked through CrownJewel 1 , an HTB Sherlock challenge
- Blue team investigation format: artifacts, logs, forensic reasoning
- Walkthrough style – reasoning through each step live rather than jumping to answers
Arsenal Section – Live:
- Shipped the Arsenal section at blog.lordsudo.com/arsenal
- Two tools live at launch:
- Corporate OSINT Recon MindMap - 10 intelligence domains, 40 nodes
- Personal OSINT Recon MindMap - 13 domains, 35 nodes
- Both built with a full intelligence quality schema; reliability ratings, data points, findings, and correlation points across each node
East Africa Intervarsity CTF 2026 Announced:
- Finally pulled the curtain back on this one
- Been cooking it with the team at CTFZone Labs
- A CTF competition built specifically for university students across East Africa
- More details coming but it’s real and it’s moving
Blog Posts Published:
- HTB Kenya IRL - writeup on the first physical HTB Kenya meetup experience
- Human Psychology Is the Exploit (Part 1) - first post in the series on social engineering psychology
On the side:
- Some Active Directory study time this week - building the foundation
Key takeaways
Two sessions in one week across two chapters is becoming a comfortable rhythm. The HTB Uganda CrownJewel walkthrough was particularly satisfying - Sherlocks push people to think forensically rather than just offensively, and watching that shift happen in real-time during a session is worth the prep time.
The Arsenal launch felt good. Having a dedicated space for tools separate from blog posts is something I’ve wanted for a while - it keeps the blog clean and gives the tools a proper home that’ll grow over time. Both mindmaps took significant work to get right: the schema, the theming, the interactivity. Shipping them properly mattered.
The East Africa Intervarsity CTF announcement is the one I’m most aware of this week. It’s been in the works for a while and announcing it publicly makes it real in a different way. The pressure is good.
Challenges and friction
Nothing significant this week. The sessions ran well and the builds shipped cleanly.
Looking ahead
Week 19:
- Continue AD study momentum
- Begin CTF planning work in earnest post-announcement
- Keep the community sessions going
Two sessions, two maps, one announcement. The week delivered.