Posts Tagged “notes”

Personal notes other might find useful about various things.

• BSides Philly 2025 - Write Up 07 December 2025
  • cloud
  • ctf
  • cybersecurity
  • notes

  I was given the opportunity to attend BSides Philadelphia and was able to compete in a CTF. I took home 3rd place playing by myself. I meant to form a group but I didn’t get around to it. The below is my write up for a couple of the problems I solved. I forgot to do the write up while I was there, so I apologize for not sharing the exact names of the challenges. I was also able to attend a couple of talks there.

• How I Updated Ruby on My Arch Box Cause the System One Was Out of Date 15 April 2024
  • jekyll
  • linux
  • notes
  • programming
  • ruby

  I just moved my laptop to run an arch derivative because I got a new SSD installed for more exiciting projects. To my surprise the current version of ruby in the repos was out of date by 9 months. So I had to learn how to use rbenv in order to build my blog and deploy new posts. It’s just like virtual environments with python, but unfamiliar because I only use ruby because I did this site in Jekyll, and to migrate would defeat the purpose of this site which is to share my writing and show off the cool things I built.

• The Magic of Beer Can Chicken 19 March 2024
  • cooking
  • meat
  • notes

  Beer can chicken and it’s derivatives are my favorite thing to cook. I have laid out in this post some notes on cooking it well, and how to do it right. It’s not something that is explained easily or obviously. These are my personal notes on how I do it, and will be updated as I learn new things about it.

• My notes on what packages I absolutely need to install to maintain this site. 27 January 2022
  • jekyll
  • linux
  • notes

  I recently got a new laptop and decided to move to Manjaro, an Arch Linux derivative. I had some frustration with setting it up, and getting the tools I need to maintain this website installed. Documented below are the steps I took to solve it.

• Finding Jekyll Posts to Update With Cover Images 10 January 2021
  • bash
  • grep
  • jekyll
  • notes
  • refactor-code
  • shell
  • snippet
  • tutorial

  I recently updated my site to make use of cover images on the post listing. I wanted to make sure that I got all of the posts that need to be updated. I used grep to find posts which had an image in them, but no cover attribute in their front-matter.

• Yetris Review - A Fantastic Terminal Tetris 08 December 2020
  • games
  • notes
  • reviews
  • tetris

  Yetris is a very cool tetris clone for the terminal. It features colors and a neat interface with lots of levels. I really enjoy playing it, but I always forget the name of the program, so I’m making a post so I don’t forget what’s it called.

• Atlantic Pie 22 November 2020
  • cooking
  • notes
  • pie

  I made some Atlantic pie recently with a few modifications. I think it turned out pretty good. I basically followed the New York Times recipe. I wanted to make something using saltine crackers. This turned out to be way easier than expected.