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Newsletter #39 - Fooled by labels Dec 5 2023

Hello, and welcome to issue #39!

This issue includes a new short story. The idea behind this story came from a Capture The Flag (CTF) game I was playing a few weeks ago. One of the flags could be obtained using a reasoning similar to what is presented...

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Newsletter #38 - Digital Magic - A Short Story Nov 9 2023

Hello, and welcome to issue #38!

Have you ever wished for magic to exist? If it did, would you notice it?

Maybe magic does exist, just in a different form than what you expected. Not in potions and spells, but in technology.

It seems far-fetched, but...

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Newsletter #37 - Shells and My New Video Course Nov 2 2023

Hello, and welcome to issue #37!

I've been thinking about the age old disputes between engineers. Everyone has a preference on how the world should work. Some people prefer Chrome, others FireFox. Some people prefer vim, others are wrong. You know...

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Newsletter #35 - A better way of setting up and managing user ssh keys in AWS EC2 instances Nov 5 2022

Hello, and welcome to issue #35!

Have you been paying attention to all the AI craziness going on out there? It surprised me how fast the Stable Diffusion project is progressing. If you have not been following the craze, let me summarise. Stable diffusion...

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Newsletter #34 - Subnets Jun 28 2021

Hello, and welcome to issue #34!

I haven't been able to write much lately, but I'm still around. I've continued learning and exploring different technologies. In the last few months, I've spent some time doing DevOps work in AWS, helping write some...

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Newsletter # 33 - Set up a macOS Parallels Virtual Machine for security research Nov 18 2020

Hello, and welcome to issue #33!

It has been some time since the last issue of the newsletter, but here we are again. A lot of new and exciting things have been going on around the Tech world. For example, the release of Apple's M1 Chip, and all the...

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Newsletter #32 - macOS network programming in Swift Sep 13 2020

Hello, and welcome to issue #32!

How are you doing? I hope everything is going well wherever you are. Things seem to have been settling down around here, so I've got more time to write. I completed my guide on macOS network programming in Swift. It...

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Newsletter # 31 - Understanding SwiftNIO by building a text modifying server Aug 26 2020

Hello, and welcome to issue #31!

I'm still amazed by how the Internet has become such a fundamental part of society. I wonder what the world will look like 100 years from now. And all of this runs on protocols created decades ago. It's truly fascinating...

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Newsletter # 30 - Building a text-based application using Swift and ncurses Aug 6 2020

Hello, and welcome to issue #30!

Sometimes I feel a little nostalgic of the "good old days" when the command-line received so much love. I still believe that it is the most useful tool if you want to increase your productivity. Using graphical interfaces...

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Newsletter # 29 - How to read passwords and sensitive data from the command-line using Swift Jul 26 2020

Hello, and welcome to issue #29!

I hope you are well where ever you are. These are weird times we live in, a lot of terrible news around the globe. But that doesn't mean that we can't make it better. Make sure you help improve your little part of the...

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