Learning

5 posts
2026

Curiosity Doesn't Age Out

I was up doing labs when the Discord message came through. It was late. The kind of time when you’re not being productive anymore, …
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What the Blue Side Taught Me (And I Wasn't Even Looking)

Blue team was never the plan. My day-to-day is security engineering: building systems, designing controls, finding weaknesses before someone …
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CTF Points Don't Matter (But CTF Skills Do)

You spend hours designing a crypto challenge. Not trivial, but not impossible some mathematical reasoning, scripting required, maybe five …
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Why I Document Everything (Even When It Feels Like Overkill)

I started documenting seriously when I joined p3rfectr00t as a CTF player. Before that, my “notes” were chaos. Random notepad …
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The Problem with 'Just Google It' (And Now, 'Just Ask AI')

A few years ago, I wanted a blog site. Simple enough goal. I found a nice Hugo theme on GitHub, cloned the repo, copy-pasted some commands …
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