If I scream into the void and there’s no one around, have I really been screaming?
Over the Cliff — A Job Hunter’s Tale The further back you scroll, the stranger the story gets. My favourite infosec job board has a little feature that lets you browse every old posting—a temporal archaeological dig. Q4 of 2016 sits at the top of that dig like a buried city: over a hundred postings, a small flood of opportunity. Fast‑forward to Q4 of 2022 and the sediment has compacted down to a few dozen.
“Building My Theme With a SNES Buster Aesthetic” CSS used to feel like trying to solder in the rain: technically possible, definitely unpleasant, and almost guaranteed to leave the air faintly blue. Yet somehow I blinked and found myself at the end of a weekend with a complete CSS theme, a matching Hugo theme, and a website that looks like it fell out of Mega Man X’s system menu. The weird part is that it was actually fun.
Understanding IPv4, IPv6, Subnets, and VPNs – A Rambling-but-(Hopefully)-Useful Crash Course This post was born from a late-night conversation about networking—why IPv4 feels like a cramped tavern, how IPv6 tried to clean up the mess, and how packets wander through their digital woods.
IPv4 – The Cramped Tavern Early IPv4 networks behaved like a noisy bar where every patron yelled their business across the room. Before switches became common, network traffic was broadcast across the entire segment, and your NIC had to catch every single packet.