you ever get so confused by a topic that you just become ok not understanding it? i'm like that today with kerberos exploits.
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without fail the most difficult part of a resume for me happens when i'm forced to enter a certain number of references. i know a lot of people, but i've worked in a large variety of industries so many of my professional references are irrelevant to the job i'm applying for. 4 is a lot. i'm always stretching by the end.
one of the main reasons i started this blog project was to document my transition into pentesting as a career. i suppose i should do more of that considering i have't actually done any at all. it's a bit of a long story to get from the beginning to this point so it's probably best just to start here and work forwards, explaining backstory when appropriate. i'm doing approximately 3 hours of python and 4 - 5 hours of tryhackme a day. i'm making a lot of progress, though it's difficult to quantify how much and how fast. i know a lot more now that i did last month and an infinite amount more than i did when i started. almost all of what i'm learning now is useful for relatively easy ctf exercises. i have no idea how much of it will be useful in real world pentesting. i think what i now understand conceptually is valuable, even if the actual commands i'm working with don't often apply. maybe most importantly, i've been keeping extremely detailed not...
i get it but...why does every informative article on the internet have to come with some multipage story about how the author used to cave dive in fiji? i really crave efficiency here. just put the answer to the question right on up their at the top. no need for anything else. not everybody who is helpful on the internet needs to be a journalist.
today a user asked if they needed to "restart the computer or just restart". i had no idea what that meant. turns out restart the computer = restart, and restart = log out. one of the most important lessons ive learned in tech is to not assume what people know, not to be indignant if they know less than you think they should, and start the troubleshooting process at the very beginning.
i remember struggling with functions during the last python course i took. specifically, defining functions with the appropriate parameters, calling those functions from inside other functions, and returning the results i needed. during my most recent course all of that material came to me so easily that i had forgotten that i ever struggled with it. i think brain breaks are important. if i can't figure it out, sometimes the best thing to do is just walk away and come back later.
I really like coding. I probably like it because what I'm doing is relatively simple and of no consequence, but I enjoy thinking through a problem algorithmically. trial and error. problem solving. etc. i've really taken to functional program. it feels efficient. i've been working a lot on trying to rely on function calls as frequently as possible in order shorten code and make it more readable. this was a fun one. it took me a day for things to click, but it felt pretty rewarding when it all worked out at the end.
i've completed somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen entry to intermediate level Python courses over the last couple of years. i always enjoy them, but a "certificate of completion" doesn't give me much to add to a resume. so i decided to pursue the PCEP certification from the python institute. this is my first time learning about bitwise operators and binary shifting and i have to say...i don't much care for it.
Something seems odd about the way MLB is enacting rule changes. They institute a pitch clock to speed up play, but eliminate the shift and make the bases bigger to promote more offense...which will make it harder to get batters/runners out...which will prolong the game. Maybe the pitch clock is a check against the shift/base change, or maybe offense can't be promoted and game time reduced at the same time.
It's taken me 3 days to put this blog together. It turns out that while I'm partial to a minimalistic approach to...everything...I can also be profoundly picky about the details. Maybe someday that will become a huge super power that allows me design the new iPhone or something, but for now it seems mostly paralyzing since doing nothing feels better than doing something poorly. I think Steve Jobs had this same issue. Maybe that's why he was so grumpy all of the time. Because the small things that bothered him weren't really detectable by other people. I definitely need to be better at completing projects, even when I'm not satisfied with them...because I'm never really satisfied with anything.