Did you know that files with the extension .docx are really just .zip packages?
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2022 Recap
I know its cliché to ask it but I’m going to anyways; where did the year go? It feels like just yesterday, I was writing about setting up a Node & MongoDB with Docker Compose.
#2022 #Recap #FullStack #WebDev
I’ve been writing on this blog for nearly 9 years and I’ve learned so much since I started. The style and the content have come a long ways and I cringe every time I read old posts thoroughly enjoy seeing how I’ve grown as a developer. I’ve interacted with people that I never would have […]
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Sniffing Dat App
An amateur dives into proxying ecnrypted SSL traffic from apps on Android 11 devices.
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Deobfuscating Node Debacles
On March 7th, 2022, the developer known as RIAEvangelist pushed a commit containing a new file dao/ssl-geospec.js to the node-ipc Github repository, for which, they are the owner and maintainer. This code, along with a subsequent version, were not typical of this project. The node-ipc module is a JavaScript module used to facilitate local and […]
Update: As evident by the comments on this post, it seems this method may not work for all installs. The issue seems to be with SMB shares. This post outlines the process with NFS shares. Thanks to Alex in the comments for these findings. If you find other issues or learn why this is the […]
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Kernelcon – An Epic Gathering of Hackers
Over the past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending Kernelcon 2019 in Omaha, Nebraska and this conference has become my new yearly pilgrimage. If I never go to any other conferences ever again and only went to this one, I’d be perfectly happy with that. What made it so great? Organization This conference was […]
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I Gave a Talk
I recently had the opportunity to give a presentation in front of a live audience with real human beings at the WP Omaha meetup group. For my first technical talk, I thought things went pretty well. There were some minor hiccups with my connection to the live stream cutting out (and poor audio quality), but […]
Not long ago, I was looking through my container configurations in the Proxmox GUI and noticed that one very important container had been running as privileged. I must’ve forgotten to click the “Unprivileged” checkbox when I was creating it. For security sake, I try making all of my containers unprivileged. It makes things like sharing […]
I hate typing the same commands over and over into the terminal. I hate it so much that every time I have CLI deja-vu, the first thing I say to myself is “How can I automate this?” Usually, it’s as simple as adding a quick alias to my `~/.bash_aliases` file but this time I did […]