What quantum computing actually is, explained simply and technically. How it could break the encryption the internet runs on, how far away that really is in 2026, and whether we should be as nervous as…
I opened my terminal, typed claude, and let an AI into my blog folder. It read everything, found broken images, ran my site, and wrote this post. Fascinated by how it works. A little scared.
An internal assessment of our IoT vendors. Cameras, fire alarms, and more, still running default admin credentials. The most basic control, skipped even in the newest deployments, turned out to be our single biggest risk.
A picoCTF privilege escalation challenge. I had SSH access but couldn't read flag.txt. Checking sudo rights showed I could launch Emacs as root. I opened a root shell inside it and finally grabbed the flag.
Today I turn 24. Not a milestone like 25 or 30, but I'm excited and grateful for where I am. A billion things I wish were better, and a note to my younger self: relax.
I'm not really a writer, but lately I've been thinking about stress. Stress is emotional, problems are logical, and panic never solved anything. What a calm friend taught me about caring just enough to act.