A blue-team walkthrough of the CyberDefenders DanaBot challenge: using PCAP and threat intel to trace the initial-access IP, identify the malicious files and their SHA-256/MD5 hashes, and the process used to execute the banking trojan.
How AI is reshaping engineering management: tracking impact instead of story points, budgeting for capacity instead of headcount, hiring abstraction thinkers, cutting dead process, and a 90-day pivot plan to stay relevant.
Recognizing and handling impostor syndrome in the moments it hits hardest, drawing on Aviv Ben-Yosef’s “The Tech Executive Operating System”, with techniques like asking yourself Socratic questions.
Practical, non-boring takeaways from NIST SP 800-190 for container security: image scanning and vulnerability management, controlled image provenance, least-privilege runtime restrictions, network segmentation, runtime threat detection, and host-OS hardening.
Building a homelab SSH jumphost that lets you pick any server from a fuzzy-finder (fzf) menu by friendly name instead of memorizing IPs, including the select-host script, autoload on login, and SSH key management.
Why real human multitasking is hard: unlike computers, we lack an internal “orchestrator” to queue tasks, so things fall through the cracks, and how to restore that orchestrator given our finite mental RAM.
A clear, visual explanation of the Proxmox VE firewall and its three layers (datacenter, node, and VM/container), how rules are matched in practice, and how to configure it on a single-node setup.
Three honest questions every individual contributor should answer before moving into engineering management: are you ready to work with people over computers, to let go of control, and to be driven by interruptions instead of a plan?
What a day as an engineering manager actually looks like, where the time goes, the challenges of 2024, and the time-management framework from Aviv Ben-Yosef’s “The Tech Executive Operating System” that helped.
What passkeys are and why they are more secure and convenient than passwords: how the public-key authentication works, its security and usability advantages, and a quick guide to start using passkeys on iPhone and Mac.