I created this website initially hosted on my Linux Ubuntu computer. I hosted it using an Apache2 webserver.

I was able to get access to the internet and was able to connect outside of my network. I got my domain from Google Domains which now thinking about it I should have just got it through amazon or go daddy. Google domain did not feel as fleshed out as the others after looking at them. Setting up the DNS for google domain was not so bad , looked up some YouTube videos and looked at their dev page.

Issues I ran into were ensuring a secure connection. I had a friend who does pen testing hit my website to give me an idea of what an unsecure connection can get access too. Finding out it can get to my router login which gives more reason to make sure your router does not have a default password. I used certbot to grab and assign an SSH key to have a secure connection using HTTPS having port 80 open on my computer. Certbot grabbed the key from Lets Encrypt and for some reason google still would not recognize it as a secure connection. This did cause the pen test to not reach my router anymore , but I wanted the secure connection icon for google. This was still not enough for me to be comfortable with my system connected to the internet and I do not have the money to buy a second layer switch to add a more physical barrier.

I then switched it over to AWS which did not take 30 minutes to do. Very streamlined and easy to understand. Currently , this website is hosted on AWS. I have my GitHub connected to AWS to push updates to the HTML.

I like going through the process of learning how to host even if it may be cumbersome even if I end up doing it the easy way. I now have a better understanding of how it all works and is set up.

Ben Eater

I have been slowly working on Ben Eaters' tutorial for a 6502-breadboard computer.

The reason for this project is to give me a better understanding of circuits and how early computers function in turn giving me a better understanding of how we got to where we are today with computers.

I also wanted to do some dabbling into assembly and binary projects to get an understanding of how they function in machines.

The first step is creating the process to make the clock speed of the computer which the versions 1-4 is shown below

This project is on hold for now, life is busy and takes up a lot of time. I plan to re-visit when I get time again

Crackmes

I use Crackmes to improve my reverse engineering skills, currently I am working on level three puzzles but I feel I am learning the most from the level threes at the moment

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