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Weekly Update 32: Isolation Con!

It’s been a pretty eventful week, from breaking an entire backup by dropping the drive accidentally, to finally getting my own ASN directly from ARIN (IP space soon!). On the 19th, I’ll be speaking at Isolation Con hosted by The Many Hats Club (streamed online). I invite all

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Weekly Update 31: The Office

This week has been quite stable and I finally got time to setup my office! I’ve started moving my desk and supplies over into it, it’s got AC, Heat and fiber optic internet. I’ve went with Fiberstream for 5G symmetrical Internet, and I’m definitely not disappointed!

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Weekly Update 30: Ping Pong

As the week progresses, I’m getting more and more excited about what the future may hold. I’ve been very excited to share that I’m getting my own private office! I want to be able to continue working hard, growing my blog and cranking out good code, so

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Weekly Update 29: The Writing Continues

Another week has gone by, and it’s been quite eventful. I’ve had some rather promising discussions with companies hiring contract/part-time work and consultancy work. In my spare time, while my son is asleep, I’m hard at work writing, producing content and preparing my course of Secure

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Weekly Update 28: Hunkering Down & The Full-Time Remote Work Lifestyle

Another week has gone by, and it’s been crazy. With moving places and getting the remainder of our stuff, unpacking and sorting it’s been beyond hectic. I’ve decided I’ll start getting up early in the morning, around 5 AM, and spend two or three hours working

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Weekly Update 27: I've arrived!

It’s been one hectic week this week. We packed most of our things and moved, and we still need to go back and collect some. I’ve started my consulting business full-time and purchased a brand new Macbook Air for my on-the-go development. I’ve decided I’ll keep

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Weekly Update 26: I’m moving!

After long consideration and events within my life, I’m moving from my place to the another country property full time! It’s going to be a massive shift in lifestyle, but it’s where I want to be in life. I’m excited for what the future holds and

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Weekly Update 25: Enhancements to the blog!

I think this has been the quickest week so far this year. It’s like time has flown by, and I finally got a chance to think about the past few years and the growth I’ve been able to experience. I’m very thankful for everything and everyone in

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Weekly Update 24: Progression

It’s that time again, this week has gone by so quickly. I had a great day on Monday (Family Day) with my family. I’ve started forward momentum with my business, and both my wife and father are helping out on it now. It’s incredible to sit back

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Weekly Update 21: The Pitch

That was a long week and exciting week. I’d had so many more accomplishments last week and my business is starting to take off at a rapid pace. I just have to pace myself, so without further a due, let’s get this show on the road! The Business

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Weekly Update 20: A New Road Ahead

This week has been by-far one of the shortest weeks of my life. It started incredibly slow after the Christmas / New Years holiday break, and sped up at rapid fire speed. Work has been slow, but I’ve been keeping myself busy, usually reading and making myself more knowledgeable about

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Weekly Update 12: Security Newsletter and Forum coming soon!

I’ve begun a new adventure, I’ve teamed up with some friends to create a forum focused on cyber security research and system administration. It’s going to be interesting, and lots of hard work. I’m also starting a cyber security newsletter, called “Smash Sec” – a weekly newsletter

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Weekly Update 10: Museum, Podcasts and Code

It’s been an incredibly busy and crazy week. It flew by so fast, and before I knew it, it’s Monday again. Today’s the day to vote in the Federal Election and I’ve got to be honest, there just isn’t any single good candidate to vote

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Weekly Update 6: It's about time!

I apologise for the delay in my weekly update, it’s been a crazy week and I’ve lost track of all time. This week I’ve began a new task: building the next evolution of my blog. My blog right now receives between 89,000 to 121,000 hits

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Weekly Update 5: It’s been a long week!

It’s been an incredibly long week, from long car rides to ongoing scares, it’s not been the funnest week! Not much has been done this week, aside driving about 250km in total, and lacking sleep. On the work front, we’ve began to rotate all important credentials, and

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Weekly Update 4: The road to OSCP

I love to learn, break, and fix — usually not in that order. After trying different avenues of security (red team / blue team), I find the most joy being on the red team. The rush of breaking into things, maintaining presence, and snooping outweighs the rest. As I’m learning more,

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Weekly Update 3: New servers means more fun!

As the week started, I decided it was time to retire a few old servers, and sell them on Kijiji. After 24 hours of posting on Kijiji, I was able to sell and retire two older servers. As you know, when one server retires, another must take its place — so

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Weekly Update 2: Lets bring on the solar!

This week has been fantastic. It’s been so nice to relax and hang out with the family, and do lots of exciting solar and electrical work. As you can tell from my blog, I’m a geek developer who’s got some unusual hobbies. This next weeks going to

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Weekly Update 1: Switching Residential ISPs

Welcome to the first week in my Weekly Update series! This is a new series, where every week I’ll provide updates of what’s going on in my life, the tech world, and things I’ve found interesting! This week, I’m forced to change my ISP. My current

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Out in the woods

It’s been a stressful week, and it’s always nice sitting in the woods, enjoying nature and working hard. As time has gone by, I’ve came to appreciate the woods, nature and find it relaxing. There’s no city lights, there’s clean air, tons of trees and