Nicholas Minturn: Software Development and CyberSecurity
All things Linux, cybersecurity and software development
Documenting my journey learning software dev && cybersecurity
What I'm doing
I am super passionate in CyberSecurity, mainly Offensive Security (so penetration testing, ethical hacking, red team operations, etc.) But also find Defensive Security (blue team, system hardening, etc.) to be fascinating. I have the eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Certification, and am working to earn more, so my notes and journey doing that will be put here.
Software Development is right up there next to CyberSecurity for me, it is incredibly fun building projects and learning new ways to code something. I have experience in Java and C#, mostly from my Java classes in college (java and c# at that level are basically the same language), but most of my experience is with C/C++. Since my Intro to C++ class in college, most of my projects have been in C/C++, actually mostly bare C, but I have been moving more into C++ over the past year or so. As I learn more languages, and make projects those will be put here as well.
Finally, researching new technologies, learning about Linux, networking, building servers, and advocating for proper privacy and respecting user data and consent is a huge thing for me. I am hoping to use this as a motivation to really dig deep and learn more, actually switch to building my own Arch distro and using that as my main instead of Manjaro, and a lot more. Just like with Software dev and Security stuff, I want to put my journey with more general tech stuff here.
Who Am I?
Computer Science major, Programming and CyberSecurity enthusiast.
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Recent articles I have uploaded to the blog
Nicholas J Minturn Education Metropolitan Community College (In progress) Associates, Computer Science and Information Technologies; Current cumulative GPA: 3.56, current quarterly standard is 3.6 - 4.0 Deans List: Fall 2020 quarter - Fall 2021 quarter Certifications INE Security (FKA eLearnSecurity) Junior Penetration Tester Date achieved: 10th of August 2022 ID: 1505075 Verification Non-professional Certifications of Completion TryHackMe Introduction to CyberSecurity Learning Path Date: 10th June 2023 TryHackMe Jr Penetration Tester Learning Path Date: 13th June 2022 Professional Experience Career Break Intentional career break to focus on education, and personal growth to be best prepared to bring value to my future careers Gained some work experience as needed to allow for my continued education.
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Adding Posts to the Blog The process of adding posts to the blog using Hugo is actually very simple, and by itself is just fine as is. The full process is creating a post on the local development server using hugo new content posts/post-name.md Then editing using your preferred text editor neovim btw, then push it into the GitHub repository when you’re done. After that, if you are running the site on Cloudflare pages, Netlify, or something similar, the site is built automatically, once the site is rebuilt can take a few minutes, depending on the size of the site your work is on the live site with no extra work needed.
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Hello And Welcome to the first post Don’t mind me I’m just testing things out right now. This is where I will put things though, programs, write-ups for CTFs (as long as it’s allowed), and notes while I’m learning. This site was made using the static site generator Hugo with the Tailbliss theme. The theme is likely going to be changed a few times as I build up the site, and try new things out.
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