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Hack, code and drink some țuică. Personal blog of Victor Dorneanu.

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206 from 26 Nov 2008 to 12 Oct 2026
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2026 6

  1. Book Summaries: January-September 2026
  2. Building a personal book library with NotebookLM and Claude Code
  3. Claude Code customizations in Emacs
  4. Using forge with gh CLI token
  5. Book Summaries: April-December 2025
  6. My 2025 review

2025 4

  1. Digital and Analogue: The balance that works for me
  2. Add pagefind search to hugo
  3. Book Summaries: January - March 2025
  4. Book Summaries: October - December 2024

2024 7

  1. My 2024 review
  2. Mastering Golang Debugging in Emacs
  3. Book summaries: May - September 2024
  4. Bye Bye Cashlink!
  5. Book summaries: January - April 2024
  6. From Doom to Vanilla Emacs
  7. My 2023 review

2023 11

  1. Documentation as Code for Cloud - C4 Model & Structurizr
  2. Emacs and the Cybernetic Productivity
  3. Parse podcast transcripts using ChatGPT
  4. Documentation as Code for Cloud - PlantUML
  5. Documentation as Code for Cloud
  6. AWS Summit 2023 in Berlin
  7. Read Hackernews and Reddit the Emacs way
  8. AWS Custom resources with Lambda and Golang
  9. Book summary: Fooled by randomness
  10. Book summary: Four Thousand Weeks
  11. Book summary: The Lonely Century

2022 14

  1. Releasing Gocial
  2. 10 years in the InfoSec industry
  3. Hexagonal Architecture in Python
  4. Migrate Tiddlywiki to org-roam - Part 2: org-roam and hugo
  5. Book summary: Building a Second Brain
  6. Working in part-time
  7. Migrate Tiddlywiki to org-roam - Part 1: Export Tiddlers
  8. Book summary: Building Microservices (2nd Edition)
  9. TiddlyWiki and Emacs
  10. RSS/Atom, Emacs and elfeed
  11. RSS and Atom for digital minimalists
  12. Book summary: Breath - The New Science of a Lost Art
  13. Book summary: Digital Minimalism
  14. Presentation as Code

2021 8

  1. My 2021 review
  2. Book review: Accelerate - The science of Lean software and DevOps
  3. Bye bye Scout24!
  4. Inbox Zero using Getpocket
  5. HowTo: Convert pocket reader links to Epub and upload to Dropbox
  6. Note taking in 2021
  7. Implement an access key rotator
  8. 4 years and 7 days later

2017 1

  1. Some forensics mini-challenge

2016 18

  1. ringzer0 CTF - Binaries - Introduction to MIPS
  2. ringzer0 CTF - Binaries - Heap Allocator
  3. ringzer0 CTF - Binaries - Time to learn x86 ASM and gdb
  4. ringzer0 CTF - SysAdmin Linux
  5. ringzer0 CTF - JavaScript challenges
  6. Fuzzing the hell out of conntrack tools
  7. hack.lu conference 2016
  8. ringzer0 CTF - Jail Escaping C
  9. ringzer0 CTF - Jail Escaping Bash
  10. ringzer0 CTF - Jail Escaping PHP
  11. Distribute your backups using git-annex
  12. The Digital Future in Berlin
  13. AWS Summit in Berlin 2016
  14. Chrooting nginx, php-fpm and mysql using Bitnami
  15. Bye bye VODKA!
  16. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  17. Some words on CSRF and cookies
  18. HowTo: Put nginx and PHP to jail in Debian 8

2015 15

  1. OpenVPN for paranoids
  2. Advanced inter VLAN switching using Cisco
  3. Basic Layer 2 Switching using Cisco Packet Tracer
  4. Manage PKI using OpenSSL
  5. Organizing and visualizing knowledge
  6. Debugging Android native shared libraries
  7. Validating and pinning X.509 certificates
  8. Adding concurrency to smalisca
  9. gethostbyname vs. getaddrinfo
  10. Coming back to C/C++ after 2 years
  11. usd AG Hacker challenge 2015 - Solutions
  12. The iOS 8.1.3 fiasco
  13. GUIfy your Apps using Flask
  14. Android Hacker's Handbook
  15. A practical guide to Advanced Networking

2014 28

  1. 2014 - Personal review
  2. HowTo: Proxy Non-Proxy-Aware Android Applications through Burp
  3. Using Blockdiag with Pelican and liquid tags
  4. Using Graphviz with Pelican and liquid tags
  5. HowTo: iOS Apps - Static analysis
  6. Generate all IP addresses from ASN
  7. HowTo: Androguard with Docker
  8. Using JQuery DataTables with IPython
  9. HowTo: Debug Android APKs with Eclipse and DDMS
  10. Python for Data Analysis
  11. Web Application Survey Tutorial
  12. Android Dynamic Code Analysis - Mastering DroidBox
  13. Disect Android APKs like a Pro - Static code analysis
  14. On Java, OpenSSL, Crypto, Blowfish and stuff
  15. WhatsApp bot
  16. Migrate this blog from Octopress to Pelican
  17. Googles XSS Game - Solutions
  18. BerlinSides 0x05
  19. HowTo: Write pentest reports the easy way
  20. HowTo: Create docs with sphinx
  21. Unfancy dashboard using matplotlib
  22. Links of the Week 27
  23. Links of the Week 26
  24. Links of the Week 25
  25. Links of the Week 24
  26. 24h Android sniffing using tcpdump
  27. 24h Android sniffing using tcpdump - IPython Notebook Version
  28. Links of the Week 23

2013 32

  1. Links of the Week 22
  2. Links of the Week 21
  3. Links of the Week 20
  4. Convert IP ranges to list
  5. Links of the Week 19
  6. Links of the Week 18
  7. Links of the Week 17
  8. Links of the Week 16
  9. Links of the Week 15
  10. Links of the Week 14
  11. Links of the Week 13
  12. Links of the Week 12
  13. HowTo: Automate nmap scanning
  14. Links of the Week 11
  15. Dissecting BlackTiny
  16. Links of the Week 10
  17. Gentoo, systemd, consolekit, udev and some failed system update
  18. Links of the Week 8
  19. Links of the Week 9
  20. HowTo: Automate Burp using Burp Extender API
  21. Links of the week 7
  22. HowTo: Root your Kindle 3
  23. Links of the Week 6
  24. Dinge, die ein Informatikerstudent niemals sagen würde
  25. Links of the Week 5
  26. Links of the Week 4
  27. Links of the Week 3
  28. Links of the Week 2
  29. Introducing Links of the Week (LOW) 1
  30. Hacking Altoro Mutual
  31. OverTheWire: Vortex Level1
  32. OverTheWire: Vortex Level2

2012 3

  1. CCC / 29C3
  2. HowTo: Split MP3s by silence detection using mp3splt
  3. HowTo: Have a web performance boost with Nginx

2011 16

  1. Need any sh3ll?
  2. Add Namecheap Mail account (OX Mail) to Thunderbird
  3. Die stinkenden Informatiker
  4. Thank God there is iodine! IPv4 over DNS
  5. HowTo: Redmine, Lighttpd with Debian
  6. HowTo: Keep your passwords safe using SQLite and SQLCipher
  7. HowTo: Convert MTS to MKV using tsMuxeR and ffmpeg
  8. Free PPTP VPN servers
  9. VNC: Connect to current desktop session using x11vnc and ssh
  10. Block facebook with iptables on OpenWrt
  11. OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD - I do love beasts!
  12. My own cheap NAS - the OpenWRT way
  13. HowTo: Full-Encrypt data using Gentoo,Luks and initramfs
  14. Think before you type part 2
  15. Stay clean and anonymous with Google Apps
  16. OpenBSD 4.8 - First impressions

2010 21

  1. Simple memory managment using linked lists (implement my_malloc and my_free)
  2. HowTo: SNAT/IP Masquerade between 2 wlan cards on Linux
  3. Find out your geolocation via MAC address
  4. HowTo: Secure your server using icmpKNOCK
  5. How to compile Robert you suck ^^
  6. DEADF700? Stuxnet!
  7. The Ac1db1tch3z exploit and "Robert you suck" thingie
  8. icmpKNOCK v0.2 released
  9. Drupals clean urls using Lighttpd: Moved from Lua to rewrite-once
  10. Speed up Drupal by preloading the page cache
  11. Its time to say goodbye! RIP 2010-07!
  12. Sommersemester 2010 online!
  13. Java? Without Eclipse? Eclim!
  14. Bildungsforschung? Rechtschreibung waere besser
  15. Birthday paradox/problem
  16. Torrents over TOR?! Don't!
  17. Word lists/dictionaries compilation
  18. rm -rf / and some kernel panic
  19. HowTo: Create new Debian domU using Xen on *BSD
  20. Inside the mind of a Russian hacker
  21. HowTo: Qemu networking on NetBSD

2009 20

  1. Attacking Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
  2. Pidgin stores account data in plaintext!
  3. NetBSD, Linux, Xen - Does it work?
  4. Simple MAC address generator
  5. Some Drupal peculiarities
  6. Keep your system up2date!
  7. NetBSD, kernel downgrade and some voodoo!
  8. FU here I come!
  9. HowTo: SSH-Tunnel over CorkScrew using Tor
  10. icmpKNOCK - ICMP port knocking server
  11. CoWPAtty 4.2 for NetBSD
  12. Ganxtaville52 Luebecker Hood
  13. HowTo: RsynCrypto - The backup jewel
  14. OverTheWire: Vortex Level0
  15. Der Buschfunk kommt
  16. NetBSD rulez!
  17. Turn VIM into your favourite IDE
  18. Why use Python? The n00b mini-review
  19. HowTo: Get SETOF from Array in PostgreSQL
  20. Bye Bye Immobilo!

2008 2

  1. Mod2Exec - Execute modules
  2. Viral Infections on Linux