Sawyer Shepherd's Blog

Heads up: This post is targeting the most popular programmer, the CH341A/B Black model.

TL;DR Use +1 (555) 123-4567 ext. 890.

I’ve found there’s no better way for blue teamers to gain active defense experience than to do “live fire” exercises against a red team.

Introduction NixOS offers great declarative system configuration, but by design, every output is stored in the world-readable /nix/ directory.

Shocker is a retired easy Linux box by mrb3n.

Delivery is a retired easy Linux box by ippsec, available on Hack The Box.

In case you didn’t notice, my website has been offline for a good while—since Christmas 2022, I believe.

Note that BTRFS swapfiles across multiple devices (pools, RAIDs) are not supported1.

After recently purchasing my first 3D printer, I have developed some thoughts on the technology in general.

Soldering is an indispensable skill for countless fields of interest, from electric luthierie to car repair.

Written by environmentalist Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac is one of the most elegant pieces of nature writing I have ever read.

I have released my program Can on RubyGems and the Arch User Repository.

I have remodeled my entire server stack to better defend against critical vulnerabilities.

I placed third at the end of the challenge, winning myself $50.

My server used to be an old gaming desktop, now running Debian 11.