Follow the path to becoming a hacker!
3 months ago, I started my 90 day problem-solving challenge. The goal was to improve my programming as well as problem-solving skills by solving numerous challenges with increasing difficulty. I never thought I would have so much fun and suffer at the same time. It's been a blast. Let me share with…
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A tweet by svbl on Twitter got me to look at mechanical keyboards. It was the one below. What mechanical keyboard do you use? Any recommendations? — Julius (@jkuhnregnier) September 28, 2019 Mechanical keyboards seemed quite promising and also much more intuitive than the ones I were currently…
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I suck at problem solving. Big time! I understand algorithms once somebody else has written them, but I can’t come up with the solution myself. In high school, my best friends seem to have been born with a problem solving and programming capacity that I still can only marvel at. Even when I would c…
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I recently stumbled upon this post about what you can all do with Python. It contained a couple of programs, with one of them hiding a zip file inside an image. Actually pretty basic, but it seemed interesting. So I played around with it for a while. I didn't know this was, at all, possible. But it…
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The other day I found a password-protected zip file on an old hard drive. Seeing that it had an intruiging name, and that I didn't know the password, I told myself that this would be a good challenge to learn bruteforcing. Bruteforcing: The act of systematically checking every possible password unt…
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