This is the first post on a blog I’m building as I pivot into offensive security. My plan is to document the journey from CS undergrad to red team! Certs, labs, tooling, writeups, wrong turns — all of it.

Here’s how this site came together in a couple of hours!

The Stack#

  • Hugo — static site generator, no database, fast builds
  • Terminal theme by panr — monospaced, minimalist, green-on-black
  • Debian 12 LXC container on my Proxmox server
  • Caddy reverse proxy for serving the static files
  • Cloudflare Tunnel for HTTPS and external exposure without opening ports

Why use this stack?#

Self-hosting on the homelab means:

  1. I control the entire stack
  2. It forces me to learn some new tools
  3. Cloudflare Tunnels are the same architecture that modern zero-trust corporate networks use.

What’s Next#

This site will track my path toward OSCP (August 2026), CRTO, and the completion of Maldev Academy. Expect writeups on HTB and TryHackMe boxes, homelab AD experiments, Windows internals notes, and anything else I fiddle with along the way.