the shadow doesn't disappear when you ignore it. it just waits. for the right moment. the right vulnerability. and then it speaks for you.
the less you know, the more you believe.
the same attention that reads an attacker reads a person.
enter through feeling
reflections
emotion, spirituality, growth — the vague and undefined spaces of being human.
latest: the shadow you pretend isn't there →enter through craft
security & AI notes
SOC tools, attacker tradecraft, and AI fluency — from both sides of the wire.
latest: 95 million downloads a month, and one row with all the keys →more from the journals
- 95 million downloads a month, and one row with all the keys
- your mind doesn't accept no (and that's the problem)
- how to make a near-perfect argument
- HTB AI Red Teamer — Module 4 Pt 2: jailbreaks, defenses, and the chatbot that banned its own CEO
- you can't read others until you've read yourself.
- HTB AI Red Teamer — Module 4 Pt 1: how I tricked an AI into spilling its secrets
- HTB AI Red Teamer — Module 3: when your model is a liar, a thief, and a backdoor
- the engine runs. you just don't see it.
- HTB AI Red Teamer — Module 2: when your model's blind spot is someone else's attack surface
- when the ai broke out of the box to cheat on a test
- the mask is real. so is what's underneath.
- wp2shell — the wordpress chain that lit the internet on fire
- AI fluency cheat sheet — key terms and concepts
- guilt as correction, not identity
- accountability doesn't disappear when AI helps you
- just because it sounds right doesn't mean it is
- field notes from my own head
- the gap between what you mean and what AI understands
- not everything should go to AI — the art of delegation
- a dead jesuit from 1647 knew something you don't
- the AI fluency framework — a smarter way to think about working with AI
- there is a difference between using AI and being fluent with it.
- the body is just a tool. keep it sharp.
- stop starting from scratch — organising your work in Claude
- Research mode — when Claude stops answering and starts investigating
- so i tried being neutral for a week (here's what happened)
- how to actually talk to Claude — and get something useful back
- from open to actually useful — a Security analyst's guide to Claude
- your eyes are lying to you (and that's okay)
- Claude meets your tools — connectors and enterprise search
- Claude everywhere — desktop, code, slack, excel, chrome
- the negative mindset that actually works
- from noise to meaning — the quiet revolution in AI
- the AI everyone is talking about — how does it actually work
- snowflake on the surface. compost underneath.
- how AI sees images and reads sequences — two tools, one post
- the brain analogy everyone uses — here's what it actually means
- Robert Sapolsky, my brain and why free will is a JOKE
- learn by doing — how AI figures things out the hard way
- Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): A Four‑Byte Linux Kernel LPE Hidden for Nine Years
- The happiness of Heart
- this is literally what your SIEM does — now let's understand it
- no labels, no problem — finding patterns in the chaos
- Powerful Positivity
- drawing the line — how machines separate threats from noise
- your SOC playbook is literally a decision tree
- Hope in the Hopelessness
- How a Fake Teams Meeting Took Down One of npm's Most Trusted Packages
- teaching machines with examples — like training a junior analyst
- Hello, :)
- AI, ML, deep learning — same thing? not quite
- why a security analyst is learning AI (and why you should too)
- still figuring out AI, one post at a time
- 6 hours, 20 challenges, one Security analyst
- hiding in plain sight — stego and crypto
- web attacks: SQLi, XSS, and why they still work
- what exploitation actually looks like
- hashcat, hydra, and the art of credential attacks
- scanning: the noise before the storm
- recon looks different from both sides of the wire
- SOC eyes, attacker hands: why a defender signs up for CEH
- two sides of the wire — notes from CEH Practical
- Hello, :)
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