pwn::musings & syndications

I recently played Cyber Showdown CTF on a pure Nix setup, and it convinced me that Nix is one of the best things to happen to my CTF workflow.

A while back I wrote about SSHing into my home server from anywhere using a Cloudflare Tunnel.

Most people meet Nix as a package manager, get scared by the syntax, and leave.

This summer break turned out unreal.

yerp, turned 22 today. i was asleep at home when my friends showed up with a cake and gifts. i was surprised but also kinda knew something was coming, we always plan surprises for each other in our circle. they watched football while i lay in bed half-dea…

Made an anonymous confession board that lives inside your terminal.

I've been working on haylxon for a while now.

I keep my entire Nix config in a public repo.

I saw Nexus 6P on Facebook Marketplace for $10.

Hacked for two days straight at MorganHacks and somehow walked away with Best ElevenLabs.

I finally flipped my config to Neovim 0.12.

I recently got a ThinkPad and decided to turn it into a small home server.

A small bug in haylxoncaused screenshots to fail with this warning: warning: oneshot canceled But the tool still said: info: Screenshots Taken and saved in directory hxnshots No screenshot was actually saved.

Today I switched to Lilex Nerd Font Mono.

Got my first split keyboard today.

I spend a lot of time building, breaking, and rebuilding software, so my workspace matters.

Never thought I’d write this, but I got my license today and bought my first car.

For my first two semesters, I used Markdown and Obsidian to take notes, Git to version them, and GitHub to back them up.

Staying silent is powerful.

Turned 21 today.

First semester done.

First flight.

Background After high school, I was at home with my parents, doing errands and self-learning while preparing for my USA visa interview.

PTN — Pentester Nepal, is a community for security folks in Nepal.

Wrapped up my job and said goodbye to the people I worked with.

My company has recently provided me with a VPS to test things before deploying them to production.

Got my US student visa approved today.

OWASP is a non-profit open-source foundation focused on application security.

2023 felt slower in the best way.

2022 was a strange little unlock.