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TL;DR The “bu” in Ubuntu is soft. Don’t slam your lips together. Let it flow, like the “b” in Spanish hablar . It’s “oo-βoon-too” , not “oo-BOON-too” .
So, there’s this ‘Afro Soul’ cover of Stromae’s “Papaoutai” that has been everywhere lately. The internet has once again done what it does best: make things go viral, and it made this song viral until it eventually found its way to my part of the internet. I listened to the song and… it’s good?. REALLY GOOD. The choral and Afro touches, as well as…
In case you don’t already know, Octosuite is a GitHub OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) framework. Basically a tool that helps investigators, journalists, and researchers dig into publicly available GitHub data. It can pull information on users, repositories, organisations, and more, making it easier to investigate accounts and understand what’s happening on the platform. I built the…
I come across a fair number of people who ask me how I learned to code. They usually say something like, “which college/university did you study from?” assuming I went to college or university. But that’s not what happened. You see, I never went to college or university. I’ve never even been to high school. I taught myself to code on an Android phone with a cracked screen.…
I’m Ritchie, and in this blog I’ll be sharing things I’m learning, learned, learnt, projects I’m working on, security research, development insights, and probably some thoughts on music and life in between. Think of it as a digital notebook that happens to be public. Why share? Because the best way to solidify ones understanding is to explain it to others. Plus, if…
I’m a Software Engineer from Zambia , with 5 years of experience making and trying to break software. Most of my work involves building data, and open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools, but I also enjoy working on random side projects that sound interesting. I’m a dad. A mentor and mentee. I play guitar. And I know how to do a backflip :). I’ve worked as an Investigative Tech…
buganize — Unofficial Python client for the Google Issue Tracking system (Buganizer) actual — File carving tool for forensic image recovery. cerium — A light ’ls’ alternative humanly — A pure Rust crate to convert numbers, sizes, durations, times, and percentages into human-readable formats knewkarma — Toolkit for Reddit data analysis. octosuite — Terminal-based toolkit for GitHub data…