Hi! I'm Andrew, a (mostly) Ruby developer documenting my adventures in tinkering and experimenting.
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SQLi, Privesc, CVEs, and Frustration: My "Easy" Introduction to Hack The Box
It was June 23, 2026, when I stumbled upon Hack The Box, a platform for penetration testing and cybersecurity challenges. I can’t recall exactly how I ended up there—maybe a random Reddit thread or an AI hallucination—but I decided to dive in.
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Passed Time Update
A long time since the last post, the were a lot of real life problems, mostly the sewer leak problem that was some impact on my mental health, but was fixed last week.
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A Weather Widget for Waybar
I recently built a small weather module for Waybar and figured it deserves a post. It’s a single Bash script, no API keys, no Python, no node — just curl, jq, and a Nerd Font. The kind of thing that exists already, but every solution I found wasn’t perfect enough...
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Gemini answered with other user's data?
You may have noticed I’ve been playing with the OpenClaw for a while. It’s been fun — there are pros and cons, and it’s probably not worth the recent RAM price increases. Today’s post isn’t about that, though; it’s about a weird Gemini glitch I experienced while using it.