a simple home, free of judgement, for me to shelve my future adventures and endeavours as they come to me, whilst I'm focusing my energy on whatever my current pursuit may be ~
current projects:
commitment date: 9.6.2025 --> 9.12.2025
tech/cybersec-based:
workflow:use my debian install as a daily driver- rice it up 🍚🔥
- use
nvim/lazyvim
deep dive:reverse engineering/malware analysis- reading: Practical Malware Analysis - The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
- watching:
- anything from this playlist
- many youtube series:
- linux reverse engineering - malware analysis
game-based:
- play (& complete dex?) in pokemon scarlet/black/white
- play at LEAST one of the following:
- Hypnospace Outlaw
- disco elysium
- persona (5)
- what remains of edith finch
- deltarune chapters 3-4
- ace attorney
- TEST TEST TEST
creative:
short Visual Novel --> about one girl in hospital.
- exact subject:
unknown - style:
shimmering, drawn-on characteron photos - playtime:
15-20min - (demo/concept to use in Emerging Gamemaker's Fund Round 2 2025 (10 July - 28th August). pitch to fund full game.)
- exact subject:
collating 4GP hospital recordings into a memoire, for the GREAT MOVIEJUICE SEAFORD LINE PROJECT 2025
write blog entries at least once a week
future projects:
tech-based:
Deploy & Secure the LAMP stack (or similar): hosting a full-stack website, with a database.
Learn the basics of Rust, & build something with it (e.g. a web server)
- Read Rust By Example - the point is to "parse the words through your eyeball compiler, and not worry about the amount of errors you get."
- Read Rust By Example again (the interactive version), whilst taking notes & programming as you go.
- Install rustlings to use as exercise as you work through "The Book".
- Build something you want to make, in Rust.
Give Arch BTW™ a spin - on a VM, or laptop (video guide, encrypted video guide, or just RTFM 🤔)
Build Linux From Scratch
homelab tweaking
- setup traefik + crowdsec for self-hosted services
- re-architecture homelab (virtualise TrueNAS inside Proxmox), potentially like done here.
- setup TIG/ELK stack for monitoring lab metrics
Read (& note) Dive Into Systems
Read (& note) - How Linux Works (3rd Ed.), perhaps alongside Linux Journey or even better, a Linux machine
Start piecing together desired projects from A Self Managed Life - 13.5hr guide to open-sourcing your life.
use my debian install as a daily driver
- rice it up 🍚🔥
- use
nvim/lazyvim
cybersec-based:
reverse engineering/malware analysis
- reading: Practical Malware Analysis - The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
- watching:
- anything from this playlist
- many youtube series:
- linux reverse engineering - malware analysis
learn & note windows sysinternals & securing it (book here)
learn & note linux internals & securing it - (books here and here)
Bug Bounties - see InsiderPHD's guide here.
Shelved (9.6.26)
complete TCM's PEH coursework through the OSCP manual/handbook & labsattempt the OSCP
creative:
short Visual Novel --> about one girl in hospital.
apply for the Emerging Gamemaker's Fund Round 2 2025 (10 July - 28th August)
develop & publish a visual novel (working name: "ward 17")
- (pw for VERY EARLY demo:
chicken+mayo_sandwiches)
- (pw for VERY EARLY demo:
friday afternoon - exploring your house as a primary school student, but not all is as it seems. with an
ASCIIart shaderset up an easel, a spot, and experiment with oil painting
film:
collating 4GP hospital recordings into a memoire, for the **seaford line project
create a memorial video with the VHS footage from my 2024 overseas trip.
"in love with your colour" - a love story told through notes in the back of a colouring book, in a therapy waiting room.
???nostalgia/early internet film???ED/hospital related film
writing:
- self-published series on my recovery from an ED
- blog posts at least every week
games:
finish pokemon scarlet/black/white
create & play on my minecraft forever world (small self-hosted server)
play at LEAST one of:
- Hypnospace Outlaw
- disco elysium
- persona (5)
- what remains of edith finch
- deltarune chapters 3-4
- ace attorney
- TEST TEST TEST



