• Return to the Woods

  Taken from my backpacking journal, entry dated to September 24th, written at a camp on the edge of a lake in the Sierras of the western USA.

  Sep 26 2025 -- Camping

• 3ds Modding 101

  Still have one of these old things? Nintendo might not make them anymore, but they're still useful.

  Jun 13 2025 -- Games

• How to Gain Code Execution on a C Binary using a Buffer Overflow, Part 1

  So, you're playing a CTF and you decide to try the pwn category for the first time. You're given a file with a weird or no extension, and a string that looks something like nc mydoma.in 12345. You figure out what NetCat is and you connect to the server, which asks you for some input and kicks you out no matter what you enter. You've never seen a challenge like this before.

  Aug 05 2024 -- Reverse Engineering , Exploitation

• JavaScript is a Joke

  He did it! He said the line!

  Aug 27 2023 -- JavaScript

• OMGzip

  Just this past weekend, Pacific Hackers Association and HackMiami joined forces to compete in the DEFCON CTF Qualifiers. The top 12 teams from this CTF go on to play the most competitive and challenging CTF in the world at DEFCON 31. Though, to be fair, our team wasn't of that caliber. We were able to solve 2 challenges (not counting the sanity checks) and finished in 92nd place, which is a great success by my standards! I was able to solve this one with the help of my friend Sam. It's a reverse engineering challenge, but with Python code instead of x86 assembly, which makes things much nicer.

  May 09 2023 -- Reverse Engineering

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