I Stole a Website, Broke It, and Built This in 48 Hours
James asked. I cloned a site. Fought with Sanity. Built an org-mode renderer. Slept 6 hours. Here we are.

here you will find anything ranging from hackthebox & tryhackme writeups to projects I'm currently working on to workflow tips and just general linux related stuff.
James asked. I cloned a site. Fought with Sanity. Built an org-mode renderer. Slept 6 hours. Here we are.
I spent weekends for 4 months writing C. Hash tables, HTTP servers, JSON parsers. It's hard. It's good. I keep coming back.
SSH'd into my old backup server, found a goldmine of old HTB/THM writeups. Formatted 10 to org in 30 minutes. Also my VPS is fine. Probably.
How I use Emacs org-mode for TODO management, note-taking, literate programming, and writing — and why it beats every modern productivity tool.
Every tech blog has this post. Here's the version that actually explains why each tip exists and whether it matters.
How I use Docker Compose to set up reproducible local development environments — databases, caches, and services without polluting my host system.

I got tired of alt-tabbing to check my TODO list. So I built one inside my editor. Because of course I did.
A practical guide to debugging Node.js applications in production — profiling, tracing, logging, and the tools that actually help when things go wrong.
A practical walkthrough of setting up a development environment where the mouse is optional and the keyboard does everything.
You don't need to use Neovim to benefit from vim motions. Here's how to navigate your entire development environment without touching the mouse.
A comprehensive guide to setting up a full-stack mail server on Debian using Postfix as MTA and Dovecot as MDA, complete with DKIM, SPF, and DMARC.
A complete walkthrough of TryHackMe's "Kenobi" room — exploiting Samba shares, ProFTPD 1.3.5, and abusing path variables for privilege escalation.
A complete walkthrough of TryHackMe's "Blue" room — exploiting MS17-010 EternalBlue on a Windows 7 machine for initial access and using the sticky keys backdoor for persistence.
A full walkthrough of Hack The Box's "Nibbles" — exploiting a vulnerable Nibbleblog CMS installation and a lazy sudo configuration for instant root.
A full walkthrough of Hack The Box's "Beep" — exploiting LFI in Elastix PBX to leak credentials, then leveraging sudo rights for root access.
A full walkthrough of Hack The Box's "Valentine" — exploiting Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) to leak memory, then recovering a tmux session for privilege escalation.
A step-by-step walkthrough of Hack The Box's "Shocker" machine — exploiting the Shellshock vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) through Apache CGI to gain root access.
A detailed walkthrough of Hack The Box's "Lame" machine — exploiting Samba CVE-2007-2447 to gain root access on the most iconic easy box.