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A personal development diary.

  • Wireshark

    Learning to use it and decipher the packets captured, finally. I wish I stuck with this years ago… What a fantastic troubleshooting tool, I can’t wait to get to grips with it more.

  • 4 more rooms finished on THM today, specifically Network fundamentals. It’s nice to revisit the nuts and bolts, I couldn’t tell you when I last used the shell to GET web content / telnet / SMTP / POP3… I hope a lot of those things remain in the past where they belong lol.

  • Let’s go!

    Command Line room finished off. I learned a valuable lesson in the shell not indicating the presence of an underscore in a script filename. Networking room comes next. I really enjoy revisiting things I’m already familiar with because I get to see it again with fresh eyes and a very different perspective.

  • Resuming this from earlier in the year. According to the schedule, I’m on track to complete this 13th May 2025. Let’s see if I can beat it…

  • Socials Added

    Just a quick update to the site. Auto-posting set up for socials. I am on Bluesky / Mastodon. Will try to add the buttons on the website at some point…

  • I work in IT with, predominantly, Microsoft 365 and on-premises Windows Server environments. I am using this blog to track my personal development as I venture into cybersecurity training beyond my existing CompTIA Security+ certification. I will be exploring a bit of TryHackMe.com and the HTB Academy as I aim for the CPTS. From there…