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Distro hopping

That’s Fedora telling me we had a good thing and I had to go distro hopping. In the span of 36 hours I stupidly decided to try to install Ubuntu side-by-side with my Fedora install. Fedora was working great, I just had a wild hair and figured I could make

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It’s been 84 years…

Well, at least it feels like 84 years. In reality, it’s only been about 18 months. But today, finally, for the first time (and hopefully first of many) I’ve earned a paid bug bounty. It’s small, only $250, but its greater than $0 and I’ll happily take it. I don’t

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Some good news

While my most recent bug ended up being out of scope (debatable), there was some good news. A bug I submitted to a VDP 6 months ago was finally marked resolved. No money, but still feels good to finally get one success under my belt. Onward to the next one.

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Here we go again

Well I’ve found and submitted another vuln to Hackerone. As with every submission, I now sit on pins and needles waiting to see if I’ll get my first paid bounty. I’ve found bugs in the past, but they’ve either all been duplicates or determined not to be a bug. Each

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Rust Detour

I’ve decided to include “learning rust” as part of my return to software development. This means following The Book as it’s apparently called. At this point, I’m only on chapter two because understanding SwiftUI is still my primary goal for now. But when I want a break from , rust

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5 Days in 2 weeks

Today, I completed day 25 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI. For those keeping track it’s been two weeks since I completed day 20. Life, uh uh uh, finds a way….. to interrupt my SwiftUI learning. Day 25 is “Consolidation II” day and took a fair bit of thinking. I was able to use

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Day 13 – Protocols and Extensions

Since early on in the #100DaysOfSwiftUI @twostraws has warned us about day 13.  We didn’t know what was in day 13, but we knew it would take more than 1 hour.  Knowing this, I had a strategy for the day.   Typically I attempt to bang out the videos, tests, and occasional checkpoints in

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