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I recently played Cyber Showdown CTF on a pure Nix setup, and it convinced me that Nix is one of the best things to...

A while back I wrote about SSHing into my home server from anywhere using a Cloudflare Tunnel. It worked. But the more...

Most people meet Nix as a package manager, get scared by the syntax, and leave. That's a shame, because the whole thing...

I've been working on haylxon for a while now. It takes screenshots of URLs from the terminal using Chrome's headless...

I keep my entire Nix config in a public repo. Dotfiles, packages, shell setup, everything. But I also need my SSH and...

I saw Nexus 6P on Facebook Marketplace for $10. Owner forgot the PIN, just wanted it gone. I already know Kali...

I recently got a ThinkPad and decided to turn it into a small home server. I plan to use it for heavier tasks like...

A small bug in haylxoncaused screenshots to fail with this warning: warning: oneshot canceled But the tool still said:...

I spend a lot of time building, breaking, and rebuilding software, so my workspace matters. For the past two years,...

For my first two semesters, I used Markdown and Obsidian to take notes, Git to version them, and GitHub to back them...

Staying silent is powerful. Not every question needs an answer. Not every comment deserves a reply. And not every...

Background After high school, I was at home with my parents, doing errands and self-learning while preparing for my USA...

PTNptn — Pentester Nepal, is a community for security folks in Nepal. They organize events, meetups, and challenges....

My company has recently provided me with a VPS to test things before deploying them to production. This is a great...

OWASPowasp is a non-profit open-source foundation focused on application security. They have local and global...