Trace-First Debugging
Structured timelines before deeper tooling
Tag: Hacking
Threat Modeling in the Small
One feature, one flow, one safer change this week
Terminal Kits for Incident Triage
Small, scriptable primitives under time pressure
Security Findings as Design Feedback
Reading vulnerabilities as architecture signals
ROP Under Pressure
Payloads that survive leaks, mitigations, and messy binaries
Recon Pipeline with Unix Tools
Composable stages instead of one monolithic scanner
Incident Response with a Notebook
A timestamped timeline when dashboards lag
Giant Log Lenses
Layout stress test for wide CLI output and log lines
Fuzzing to Exploitability
Triage, minimization, and harness quality between crash and finding
Exploit Reliability over Cleverness
Building Repeatable Triage Kits
Packaging workflow so every analyst starts the same way
Assumption-Led Security Reviews
Testing claims instead of running checklists
Ghidra First Steps
Readable pseudocode, not compilable C
Nmap Beyond the Basics
NSE scripts and staged, auditable scan workflows
Format String Attacks
From %08x reads to %n arbitrary writes
Buffer Overflow 101
Stack control, step by step, on a deliberately unsafe binary