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Just thought I’d share these slides on cybersecurity: I made them for the cybersecurity section of the computer science club, because I wanted to present a new topic for that meeting. Note: I did not create the theme, I used a “computer science” theme from slidesgo. Updated with a new networking slideshow! Read More

(Still a work in progress!) Updates and the like: I have been very, very busy this year, hence the lack of posts. But I will summarize the main tech and computer science events and accomplishments here: Installed a new home button on my Iphone 6s plus Attended Harvard Women in Computer Science (WiCS) virtual WiCS Workshop Further DWM co... Read More

A quick update I was pretty busy with school, so I couldn’t really write much, but a lot has happened since I last posted. I did all of the things mentioned in the title, as well as learning a ton of new things about linux that are extremely useful all the time. I GOT A THINKPAD A month after I installed linux on my chromebook because chromeos ... Read More

What it is: Uranium Cat1 is a new github repository2 and project made by me. It is a chat website made to bypass the URL filters on school wifi. My school has a very strict phone policy this year, and has disabled even Slack due to students using it in class to talk to friends. So, I decided to use this as an oppurtunity for a coding project ... Read More

Originally published 8/14/22, with many updates since then. What I’ve already done: I changed the dark theme colors to a warmer tint. If you look at the source code to this website on github, you’ll notice I made a couple commits with pretty similar edit messages - “changing dark mode colors” , “color changes again”. That’s because I forgot... Read More

What’s happened since I last posted June: I didn’t do much, but I did some research related to Networking and Linux. July: I switched my main desktop from Windows to Ubuntu. I wanted to do this for a long time because most of the programming and cybersecurity tools I use are on linux. The only thing that was holding me back were audio is... Read More

Details I didn’t qualify for the scholarship because I’m not a high school senior or student in college. I got an email yesterday from the National Cyber Scholarship Foundation announcing the competition results, and that I’m a finalist for the competition. This means that if I was a few years further into school, I could’ve gotten the scholar... Read More

Updates I decided to switch from Javascript to Python, because I’m a little more experienced with it, and I always wanted to try using pygame and tkinter to make a game. I’m still making a snake game though. Key takeaways I was having issues with import tkinter as *, I was recieving an error that said the program couldn’t find a module named ‘... Read More

Details: Language: Javascript [For the game] with HTML/CSS [For the website] Type of game: Snake game Originality: completely original, made from scratch, no tutorials used – just occasional research of specific terms This is going to be a short project I’m going to do. Instead of leaving the code for the second version of my blog site un... Read More

First published on April 2, 2022. This guide is going to be a running blog post, meaning I’ll constantly be updating this page with new things I learn. Just to start, here’s a basic list, organized by topic of cybersecurity stuff I know about/have heard of. This list includes tools, concepts, attacks, commands, etc. It’s going to get pretty lo... Read More

My current score is 50,400 points! Updates I finally reached 50,000 points today, the last day of Cyberstart. I was burning out lately, but I managed to make one final push, and I focused mainly on the moon base, the python programming challenges. I still added some notes to my cybersecurity guide, and I will be adding more in the future. I m... Read More

My current score is 38,800 points! Updates I was supposed to reach my goal of 50,000 points for the silver award in Cyberstart five days ago. Lately, I had been struggling with scoring (especially scoring consistenly) in Cyberstart. This was because I was trying to stay in my comfort zone, rather than coming out and learning something new. This... Read More

My website is hosted on github pages, view it here. A Change of Plans I originally intended to recreate my blog site from scratch, so that it could truly be my website. However, recently I’ve been thinking about making a game and browser games in general. Since Cyberstart is still going on, I paused on all of my projects, and I didn’t commit ma... Read More

My current score is 20,200 points! Update after publishing this post: Clarification: Because I have surpassed 20,000 points I am technically a National Cyber Scholarship Semifinalist. However, I already qualified because of picoCTF 2022, and the email from picoCTF confirmed it. I’m not eligible for the scholarship, but I’m hoping I can still ge... Read More

My current score is 11,200 points! I have recieved my bronze badge! This is my bronze badge: it can be verified and it is authentic! I can put this on applications and resumes! General updates and point scoring I was busy yesterday, so I didn’t score any points, but today I have gone from 6,500 points to over 10,000! I thought that all of th... Read More

My Progress So Far As of writing this blog post, I have scored 6000 (*update:* my score is now 6500) points! I’m having a pretty good time solving these challenges, and I’m glad I joined this competition. My goal is to get into the Gold Badge, which is 100,000 points,so its still a long way to go. You can see the scoring/badge system at the bo... Read More

My website is hosted on github pages, view it here. I was pretty busy yesterday, so I didn’t make any changes. However, today I am back to making edits to my website. I was having an issue with the link on the ‘About’ page that took you back to the home page, I added the font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Oswald, sans-serif; font styling to it, bu... Read More

I will likely be working on the remake of this website less consistently while Cyberstart America is live, so that I can focus more on Cyberstart. PicoCTF I made this website just a few days after picoCTF 2022 competition ended. This year, my team scored 4900 points and placed 207th for US high schools, and we were a team of two. Last year, my ... Read More

My website is hosted on github pages, view it here. I finally fixed the annoying white space! The solution: I used this CSS style on the body: margin:0mm;, and it worked! Its always one single command that either fixes or breaks everything. I also created extra whitespace, I wasn’t sure how that happened, so I compared the CSS I was editing to ... Read More

Yesterday I started a brand new repository for this website, remade completely from scratch. Since it was the first day, I didn’t get too much done, but it did get hosted on github pages without an issue. Today, I added a lot more content: The about page and link on homepage Page header Page footer Some consistent fonts Favicon Lots... Read More

Introduction PicoCTF is a fun cybersecurity competition for students from middle school to high school. CTF stands for ‘Capture The Flag’, this is referring to the main objective of PicoCTF. In PicoCTF, you are given challenges, puzzles related to important cybersecurity topics and your goal is to find the ‘flag’ which is a special code (usually... Read More

I’m planning on improvements and changes to this website. There are a couple things that irritate me about the website (hopefully no one has noticed them yet). Here’s a to do list of the things I plan to either change or fix: Fix the RSS email subscription link (you can’t subscribe for email notification updates about new posts), or delete ... Read More

This has been a really annoying journey to making a website. I encountered three main issues: Missing theme file Didn’t enter a url and url subpath in _config.yml Wrote /assets/images/banners/imagefile.png instead of assets/images/banners/imagefile.png All of these were really simple mistakes, I’m not exactly sure which file specifical... Read More