There are a lot of tools you can use to see what a company is up to techwise. Dig is good, whois is good, spidering through webapps looking for links and apis is good, but my favorite… really dead simple way of getting information on a domain is to just checkout https://crt.sh. The script To even call this a script is an insult to scripting. I’m just curling the csv endpoint of the crt.sh website and using some cli-foo to turn it into subdomains. ...
A Tip for Linux Noobs This article is going to be part of a series where I cover little tips and tricks that some people don’t know, but that make your tech life a little bit easier. Today’s tip? Where do I put my scripts? So when you’re working on writing a little bash script, most tutorials will tell you to just make a directory for the project you’re working on and just write the script there. That’s great for learning, but not good for daily use. ...
My big problem: If it wasn’t clear by the blog already, I hate social media websites with a passion. I dislike Twitter and Mastodon equally. Facebook is my nemesis, and Instagram is my foe. That said, I have a soft spot for Youtube. Did I say soft spot? I mean, crippling addiction. I love Youtube. Whereas older generations turn on the tv and zone out, I pop open an incognito tab so that I get a fresh algorithm each time and ride the wave. ...
This’ll be a short one, but I recently moved to a new city and it’s always difficult to meet new people if you aren’t part of some large organization or religion. One way to get familiar with new people is to use https://meetup.com. The issue I was facing is that the city I’m a part of is huge and there are a ton of groups. Trying to login to each group individually would take like 20 minutes if I just wanted to see what they were up to. So here’s a little script that I made with chatGPT and some unix philosophy magic that will give us all of the group urls, event names, and times so that I can see if any of them interest me this week. ...