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30 Days of Hands-on Cybersecurity Training: My Notes
Daily notes from a month-long training sprint covering recon, scanning, enumeration, and reporting — what worked, what didn't, and what I'd repeat.
Read More →Why Visual Hierarchy Matters in Interface Design
How spacing, scale, and contrast quietly do 80% of the work in any clean UI — with simple before/after examples from my own redesigns.
Read More →A Weekend in Cox's Bazar: Notes from the Longest Beach
Travel notes, photo highlights, and a few lessons about slowing down and observing — written like a designer's field journal.
Read More →My Journey Learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
From confused beginner to confidently shipping small projects — the resources, habits, and projects that actually moved the needle for me.
Read More →5 Small Linux Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier
tldr, fzf, history-search, `!!` shortcuts, and a tiny shell alias trick — practical CLI upgrades that genuinely saved me time.
Read More →Walking Old Dhaka: A Photo Essay
An afternoon walking through the old city with a camera and no agenda — narrow alleys, colors, food, and unexpected design lessons.
Read More →What I Learned Writing My First Real Bug Report
Format, tone, evidence, severity — turning a chaotic finding into a clean, actionable report that engineers can use.
Read More →Setting up a Safe Home Lab: My VMware Build
A practical, step-by-step rundown of how I built my home lab — attacker box, target VMs, isolated network, and snapshot discipline.
Read More →Studying CSE While Building a Portfolio: My Honest Routine
How I balance university, self-driven cyber/design study, side projects, and rest — what works, and what I'm still figuring out.
Read More →Color Palettes That Don't Feel Like Bootstrap
How to step beyond default web palettes — exploring mood-based color, gradient pairs, and accessible contrast that still feels alive.
Read More →Today I Learned: How a TCP Handshake Actually Works
SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK — what each step actually does on the wire, with a Wireshark capture annotated end-to-end.
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