$ ls ./blog
Blog
Walkthroughs, lab notes, and the occasional rant. Mostly about full-stack dev and cybersecurity — the things I'm learning on the way to becoming.
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From 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
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Notes from "The Complete Developer" (Martin Krause)
Three ideas from the book that changed how I write Next.js apps.
- #books
- #nextjs
- #fullstack
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Why I picked an apprenticeship over going solo
A year in: code review, real customers, and the things YouTube doesn't teach.
- #career
- #personal
- #coding-temple
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Building a contact form that doesn't get spammed
Three layers of defense, each cheap, each measurable.
- #web-security
- #building-in-public
- #forms
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The CIA triad, explained simply
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability. Three letters that decide your security strategy.
- #secplus
- #cybersecurity
- #fundamentals
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Why 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
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SQL 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
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The 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
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eJPT Day 1: Kali in a VM
Setting up the lab. UTM on Mac, virt-manager on Linux, VirtualBox if you must.
- #ejpt
- #kali
- #cybersecurity
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Hello, world
First post. Why I'm building this site, and what to expect here.
- #meta
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Why I'm building aldowebsitellc.xyz
A personal site is a forcing function. Here's the plan.
- #meta
- #personal
