Warning: there is no success story here. Below details my failed journey of trying to get smart lights working in my apartment. When I expressed interest in getting more smart things in my house, a coworker of mine mentioned he had a ton of RGB smart lights he didn’t need…

I participated in this year’s PACTF (Phillips Academy Capture the Flag challenge), an annual online computer security competition. Although the competition is targeted towards middle/high school students, the problems given varied from easy (10 points) to extremely difficult(100 points). From this other excellent writeup on the problem Skywriting, this problem…

A while back, I switched Github usernames so that I could have a formal username that wasn’t associated with my regular games/Reddit username. However I realized after switching even though my old profile was “deleted”, the repository links were not. Let me give an example. Let’s say your username is…

The circulation of currency in the form of banknotes and coins has long been controlled by centralized governments. Bitcoin, a form of digital currency secured by cryptography, was created out of a need for a decentralized currency that is not controlled by any central entity. …