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Walkthroughs, lab notes, and the occasional rant. Mostly about full-stack dev and cybersecurity, the things I'm learning on the way to becoming.
4 min readWhy I sell a $19 ebook instead of running an agency
Every small business gets quoted four thousand dollars for a website they will never edit. Every junior dev buys a course they never finish. The space between those two prices is where I work.
- #indie
- #business
- #writing
5 min readeJPT prep, my enumeration checklist
A practical first pass for any box: what I check before I touch a single exploit. Notes from eJPT prep.
- #writeup
- #ejpt
- #security
- #enumeration
- #lab
5 min readFrom Coding Temple to my first deployed site
A year of practice, three days of wrestling with Vercel, one live URL.
- #personal
- #career
- #building-in-public
5 min readNotes from "The Complete Developer" (Martin Krause)
Three ideas from the book that changed how I write Next.js apps.
- #books
- #nextjs
- #fullstack
3 min readWhy I paid for a bootcamp instead of teaching myself
I almost taught myself to code for free. Here is why I paid for structure instead, and what it actually bought me that the tutorials could not.
- #career
- #personal
- #coding-temple
- #learning
5 min readBuilding a contact form that doesn't get spammed
Three layers of defense, each cheap, each measurable.
- #web-security
- #building-in-public
- #forms
5 min readThe CIA triad, explained simply
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability. Three letters that decide your security strategy.
- #secplus
- #cybersecurity
- #fundamentals
5 min readWhy I'm learning Burp Suite (and you should too)
A web proxy is to a web pentester what a debugger is to a developer.
- #burp
- #cybersecurity
- #tools
- #ejpt
5 min readSQL injection in 3 minutes
The vulnerability that won't die. What it is, why it works, how to stop it.
- #cybersecurity
- #web-security
- #sql
- #owasp
5 min readThe nmap commands I keep forgetting
Five flags I've had to look up more than once. Saving them here so I stop.
- #nmap
- #ejpt
- #cybersecurity
- #cheatsheet
5 min readeJPT Day 1: Kali in a VM
Setting up the lab. UTM on Mac, virt-manager on Linux, VirtualBox if you must.
- #ejpt
- #kali
- #cybersecurity
1 min readHello, world
First post. Why I'm building this site, and what to expect here.
- #meta
2 min readWhy I'm building aldowebsitellc.xyz
A personal site is a forcing function. Here's the plan.
- #meta
- #personal