I could say “rock music is dead” and a bunch of fans will crawl out of the woodwork to list all their favorite rock bands. And I’m sure they’re all good! But that doesn’t fix the problem. If I point out that young men are wildly underrepresented in YA fiction, people will pop out of a hole in the ground…
I ran a half marathon! On October 21 2023, I reached my goal of 100lbs lost. The very next day, October 22nd, I started running. I had run a 5K race when I reached 50lbs lost, so my initial goal was to run a 10K to celebrate 100lbs. But it was a long winter and my ambitions are boundless 😉…
Summary: It’s probably not worth it unless you have a $600+ smart trainer. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve picked up running in the last 6 months. It’s been winter, which necessitates time on the treadmill. And I’m expecting this summer to be record heat which will push me to the treadmill even more. I also cross-train on an indoor bike. I…
You’re looking at the race calendar and you see two 5Ks you really want to run… but they’re on the same day! And there’s a 10K that sounds really interesting the next day! How do you decide which to run? The Problem I actually have this as a real scenario I am facing. I’m looking at two different 5Ks that…
After I lost 50lbs in 2021, I ran a 5k to celebrate my fitness. Now that I’ve lost 100lbs, I planned to run a 10k. But I was enjoying running, so I’ve set my sights on a bigger goal: Amway Riverbank Run (RBR) 25K. Slightly longer than a half marathon. Here’s what I’m doing to prepare for my 2024 running…
YUUUUP! I’ve always been overweight, I’ve tried half-heartedly to fix this many times over the years but I never really had much success. But in late 2020/early 2021 I decided that was time to change. For good. So I bought a Peloton and started hitting the pedals. 45 minutes 3x per week, with another 90 minute ride on Saturday. I…
Some background information, feel free to skip: I’m relatively new to pentesting. I’ve spent my whole career on the blue side, mostly with SIEM technologies. But that’s boring! I want to HACK! So my employer paid for some training and set a goal to finish HackTheBox Bug Bounty course and all TryHackMe modules this year. So I’m documenting my progress,…
People ask what the future of programming (and other IT tasks) looks like with tools like Chat-GPT and Github Copilot. My take: AI is basically a summer intern. Horse Whips and Buggy Factories The trajectory of technology is always Manual effort -> Partial automation -> Full automation -> New careers built babysitting the automation. Information was remembered and only communicated…
You’ve seen the stories about orcas attacking ships and wreaking havoc in the ocean, right? Well why let the orcas have all the fun?! Now you can swim through the ocean and sink ships too! I was bored so on Saturday I installed the Unity engine and Visual Studio and started learning C#. On Thursday I launched Shiprekt on itch.io…
Hey guys! This is my first CTF writeup, red teaming is a new thing to me! Let’s get started! I’m starting with Photobomb from HackTheBox. It’s an easy CTF but I’m pretty new to pentesting so it’s a good challenge for me. I’ve been told it’s good practice to add the box name to your /etc/hosts file before you get…