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Python Zero to Hero

What is Python? Python is a programming language created by Guido (pronounced gree-do) Van Rossum. Specifically, Python is an intrepreted, high-level, general purpose programming language. Let’s talk about what these mean. General Purpose General Purpose means that Python was created to do everything. Some programming languages like Matlab or

Favourite Books

1. How to Win Friends and Influence People If you talk to other humans, if you interact with humans, you must read this book. No exceptions. All my life, people told me that making friends and influencing people is an artform - something you can’t learn. This book showed

How I Hacked Your Pi-Hole

There are 5308 publically available Pi-Holes according to Shodan.io. This article will demonstrate how bad of an idea this is. If you’ve spent any time over at r/pihole, you’ll know they always talk about not having publically available Pi-Holes. But, why? What’s the harm? Out

Creating your own VPN with PiHole & UnBound on AWS

Introduction In this blog post we will: * Create our own VPN on AWS * Add PiHole to iit * Use Unbound as our DNS resolver * Access the VPN using Wireguard * Not go bankrupt doing it! Step 1 Create an AWS lightsail instance on Amazon. We use Lightsail instead of EC2 because EC

Learn Functional Python in 10 Minutes

Learn Functional Python in 10 Minutes

You’ll learn what the functional paradigm is as well as how to use functional programming in Python. You’ll also learn about list comprehensions and other forms of comprehensions.

Can Artificial Intelligence ever replace penetration testers?

In this blog post we’ll explore if machines can fully replace pe Something to note is that predicting the future is hard and this is all entirely my opinion. Many people will have differing ideologies. Machine Learning Typically when we think of artificial intelligence, we may think of machine

Lessons from 500 days of language learning

The only thing more annoying than your friend banging their pints on the table is your friend drunkenly suggesting you all do Duolingo together. I wasn’t sure what was more shocking, the fact that the pub had run out of Vodka or that my friend was suggesting, at 1

Wallet Security for New Witches

Wallet Security for New Witches

The problem with being your own bank is that you are your own bank. Often when people are phished / scammed they cry out for centralisation, for some sort of regulatory body to protect them. Sadly this is not how cryptocurrencies work. When you are your bank, you are responsible for

The Great Unpegging

The Great Unpegging

and the shorters who made billions betting against crypto’s Enron

Peer 2 Peer Networks

Preface If you’re reading this, like me, you must strangely like the idea of effectively designing peer to peer networks. Almost no real world usage (unless you work in this industry), but nevertheless the design is so interesting! Peer to peer networks effectively are close approximations of how humans

🔐Ciphey - Automated Decryption Tool

🔐Ciphey - Automated Decryption Tool

Hi! Bit of an unusual post. I’m writing about my first open source tool, Ciphey! Check Ciphey out here. Ciphey answers the question: “What does this encrypted text say?” First, an important distinction. I define encryption as: Anything that you cannot read fluently When normally encryption is defined as: