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Connor Tumbleson

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Hi, I'm Connor Tumbleson - I blog weekly, work on Cicada 3301 & Halo projects, maintain Apktool, work at Sourcetoad and speak at events around Florida.

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2026 44

  1. AI Aversion
  2. Orange Creamsicle Cocktail
  3. The rise of everything.
  4. Software & Secure Defaults
  5. Are we all builders now?
  6. ScreenConnect Hack? Scam?
  7. Tampa Steakhouses worth visiting (2026)
  8. A healthy amount of paranoia
  9. Pi-hole: 8 years later
  10. An Engineer with AI
  11. Dining @ Kosen in Tampa
  12. Travel Blog: Kansas City (3)
  13. Fixing a Dual Flush Toilet
  14. 2026 Tour de France
  15. FIFA World Cup 2026
  16. Video Games & FOMO
  17. Main Loop @ Morris Bridge Park
  18. Super Smash Bros
  19. MOSI, Switch 2 & Ulele
  20. Red Lights, AI Models & Cider
  21. Anubis & NGINX
  22. GPTBot is terrible
  23. Destiny 2 is over
  24. BSides Tampa 2026
  25. Recent Power Outages
  26. GitHub, AI & An Influx of Content
  27. Switching Laptops
  28. The AI Attacker
  29. Main Character Syndrome
  30. Bungie & Marathon
  31. ZooBrews at ZooTampa
  32. The odd new spam on GitHub
  33. Apocalyptic Traffic
  34. Breaking Changes vs Infinite Support
  35. Cooking a Tomahawk on a Green Egg
  36. Apktool v3.0.0 Released
  37. The UT Frat Behavior
  38. The Pneumonia Strikes
  39. Travel Blog: Gainesville, GA
  40. Cold Pirates & Casinos
  41. Travel Blog: Delray, FL
  42. Bern's Steak House
  43. The Looming Fear
  44. A Year of Blogging (2025)

2025 55

  1. Dead Internet Theory
  2. The OIDC Future
  3. Seared Ahi Tuna Salad
  4. Kabob's
  5. A history of fastlane
  6. Helping out Open Source
  7. Hestan Cue Smart Pan Rebate
  8. 2025 Emerging Tech Leader of the Year (Tampa Bay)
  9. Halloween Candy Wheel
  10. Another Halo CE Remake
  11. Travel Blog: Anna Maria, FL (3)
  12. The Daily AI Dosage
  13. Popular Blog Topics
  14. Travel Blog: Roanoke, VA (3)
  15. People are Everywhere
  16. Project: Pi Stats
  17. Unforgettable Video Games
  18. PHP is cool.
  19. Home Project - Part 3
  20. 2025 Tour de France
  21. Owning a Dash Cam
  22. Travel Blog: Denver, CO
  23. Travel Blog: Homosassa, FL
  24. Travel Blog: Asheville, NC
  25. A renewed treasure hunt
  26. Apktool v2.12.0 Released
  27. Hobbies are amazing
  28. Favorites never stay
  29. Home Project - Part 2
  30. Another Home Project
  31. Hurricane Season is here
  32. Brainwashed with Stoves
  33. Travel Blog: Anna Maria, FL (2)
  34. BSides Tampa 2025
  35. AIs talking for us
  36. GitHub Sponsor Funding
  37. Visiting the Top Ten Steakhouses in Tampa (2025)
  38. The Races Rejoined (Part 2)
  39. Replacing a Mailbox
  40. Trusting an Open Source Maintainer
  41. Joining the Races
  42. Nation State Threat Model
  43. My Hello Fresh Experience
  44. Apktool v2.11.1 Released
  45. Video Game Trailers
  46. Watching your Frontier bill slowly rise.
  47. Pi-hole: 7 years later
  48. Computers, Cars & Creatures
  49. The anger of a few.
  50. Halo 2 Map Editor: Prometheus
  51. Tampa Gasparilla 2025
  52. Home Owner Woes
  53. Apktool v2.11.0 Released
  54. Predatory iOS Cleanup Applications
  55. Travel Blog: St Augustine, FL

2024 55

  1. A Year of Blogging (2024)
  2. The Cicada 3301 Mystery (Puzzle 3 Solve) - Part 4
  3. Olive Oil & Vinegar
  4. Goodbye cPanel
  5. Travel Blog: Roanoke, VA (2)
  6. Internet Sleuths & The Yi Peng 3
  7. A Halo 2 Tournament - 20 years later.
  8. Countries & Video Games
  9. HTML to PDF (PHP) in 2024
  10. Food & Fall Weekend
  11. Decaying Technology
  12. Hurricane Milton & Tampa
  13. MKBHD & Wallpapers.
  14. Hurricane Helene & Tampa
  15. Conferences
  16. Apktool v2.10.0 Released
  17. Speak, Steak & Sinkholes
  18. Tampa Flooding - Sept 2024
  19. Travel Blog: Naples, FL
  20. Travel Blog: Anna Maria, FL
  21. 2024 Tour de France Femmes
  22. Travel Blog: St. Pete, FL
  23. First Comedy Show
  24. Fast Food
  25. 2024 Tour de France
  26. Adult Life & Mortgages
  27. NBC & Peacock - Tour de France Viewing Experience
  28. Sushi
  29. Social Etiquette
  30. The disappointing starknet.io
  31. the non-stop hustle
  32. The Cicada 3301 Mystery (Puzzle 3 Solve) - Part 3
  33. Travel Blog: Chicago (3)
  34. I hate flying
  35. The EPA & Earth
  36. The Body Battery
  37. Humans
  38. Rebel Moon - Part 2
  39. The East Fletcher Run
  40. Double Conference Day
  41. Watching xz unfold from afar
  42. Pi-hole: 6 years later
  43. Halo 2 & Insignia
  44. A Child's Journey
  45. Open Source Entitlement
  46. The disappointing tea.xyz
  47. The Growth of Tampa
  48. Derek Cardigan 7003
  49. The Cicada 3301 Mystery (Puzzle 3 Solve) - Part 2
  50. AI & Cicada 3301
  51. Crowd Funding Products
  52. Apktool v2.9.3 Released
  53. Exploring Trails
  54. We are all guests
  55. Apktool v2.9.2 Released

2023 55

  1. A Year of Blogging (2023)
  2. Too much Car Safety
  3. It's Relative
  4. Impersonating Projects
  5. Apktool v2.9.1 Released
  6. A Lost Friend
  7. Travel Blog: Roanoke, VA
  8. Travel Blog: Atlanta
  9. Treated like Garbage
  10. The Brain
  11. Travel Blog: San Francisco
  12. Help me help you.
  13. The Weaponized Process
  14. Apktool v2.9.0 Released
  15. Safety in Patterns
  16. Travel Blog: Malibu, CA
  17. Bye CentOS & cPanel
  18. C-135 Tampa Bypass Canal
  19. Hurricane Idalia & Tampa
  20. Hobby Projects
  21. Travel Blog: Charleston, WV
  22. The dangerous corium
  23. The Disappointment Islands
  24. Invalid CEN header
  25. 2023 Tour de France
  26. Apktool v2.8.1 Released
  27. Apktool v2.8.0 Released
  28. Upcoming Apktool 2.8.0
  29. Bloggers Block
  30. Hyundai Theta II Engine
  31. Retiring Technology
  32. The Reddit Drama
  33. Superfund Sites
  34. The FP Movies
  35. CSS Framework Evolution
  36. Project: Tampa Resists
  37. The Tampa Gulf Parks
  38. Lost Treasure: K'NEX
  39. Camera in the Attic
  40. Travel Blog: Jacksonville
  41. Project: Leaf
  42. Random Stories
  43. 300,000+ Scrobbles
  44. Homelab Software Recap
  45. Written by a Human
  46. Letting Dependabot merge
  47. Grafana & Prometheus
  48. Pi-hole: 5 years later
  49. 3 months of mail
  50. Personal Weather Station
  51. Air Quality
  52. Layoffs on Layoffs
  53. Dangling Domain Abuse
  54. Callous Tampa
  55. Evolution of Food Taste

2022 55

  1. A Year of Blogging (2022)
  2. I'm Sick
  3. 2022 World Cup
  4. Medicine Advertising
  5. React Native Packages Woes
  6. Open Source & Saying "No"
  7. Apktool v2.7.0 Released
  8. The United States of Wall Street
  9. Door to Door - Better Earth
  10. The Research Begins
  11. Hellraiser
  12. Mortgage Life Insurance
  13. Top 5 Tampa Pizza
  14. Cheating on the rise.
  15. NGINX, Ghost Blog and top of Hacker News
  16. The Perfect Salad
  17. Someone is pretending to be me.
  18. Adult Life
  19. The Penny Hoarder
  20. Door to Door - Lumino Solar
  21. Spotty Frontier - Aug 2022
  22. The Big 30
  23. 2022 Tour de France
  24. Travel Blog: DC
  25. Twitter Argument and 10k Ninjas in Halo Infinite
  26. Sandwich Shop Reviews 2022
  27. Local News is Dead
  28. Entitlement and Compassion
  29. Rebuilt Games
  30. Basic Laravel Optimization
  31. Travel Blog: Michigan
  32. OPNsense, WireGuard & Pi-hole
  33. Hello Ghost v5
  34. Most of my site requests are bots
  35. July 2015 Lake Ozark Flood
  36. The Unknown Future
  37. A Look into Laravel Livewire
  38. Setting up Nzyme
  39. Cults on Cults
  40. Infection of Greed
  41. Anarchy
  42. Pi-hole: 4 years later
  43. The Homelab - Part 2
  44. The disappointment of Halo Infinite
  45. The Homelab - Part 1
  46. Disinformation is Free
  47. Apktool v2.6.1 Released
  48. Deploying Laravel with GitHub Actions
  49. 2022 - Era of the CVE
  50. The Pwnagotchi
  51. Keeping a project alive
  52. Open Source & Money
  53. Goodhart's Law
  54. Poems
  55. Then and Now

2021 53

  1. Understanding Matrix Resurrections
  2. Building a CTF
  3. My Halo Journey
  4. Adpocalypse
  5. How did Pikmin Bloom delay Android Notifications?
  6. Mike Flanagan, Eli Roth & Wes Craven
  7. Running
  8. Malware and NPM packages
  9. Project: iBotModz & Logos
  10. Helping Open Source
  11. The Hidden Dependency
  12. Insights without Tracking
  13. Servers Dying (Sept 30, 2021)
  14. Inside the Mind: Computers
  15. GitHub Actions Wishlist
  16. Travel Blog: Tampa, FL
  17. Leaving your Mark
  18. Apktool v2.6.0 Released
  19. Doom, Gloom and Music
  20. The Parks of Tampa
  21. Travel Blog: Florida Keys
  22. Travel Blog: Kansas City (2)
  23. Gen Z is Screwed
  24. 2002 Kansas Ice Storm
  25. Xbox Hacks: The A20
  26. PiVPN + Pi-hole
  27. The Tour de France
  28. Halo 2 Mod Photography
  29. Original Xbox Mod Chips
  30. The Absence of Truth
  31. Cleaner Code
  32. Egmont Key State Park
  33. The Florida Drivers You'll Encounter
  34. Isolation Day 427
  35. Lets talk Aliens
  36. Credit Scores
  37. Pi-hole: 3 years later
  38. Piney Point - Tampa
  39. The Cicada 3301 Mystery (Puzzle 1 - 2nd Chance Solve)
  40. Delivery Only - Uber Eats
  41. SSL Tracking Links on Mailgun with Ghost Blog
  42. Hello Ghost v4
  43. Project: Halo Depot
  44. Project: LeafApp
  45. Project: Reach Stats
  46. Project: Panda Love Clan Site
  47. The Cicada 3301 Mystery (Puzzle 3 Solve) - Part 1
  48. GameStop, Robinhood & 2021
  49. Blog Updates - 2021
  50. The Cicada 3301 Mystery (Puzzle 2 Solve)
  51. Welcome Gift for You
  52. Halo 2: Map Editors
  53. Environmental Water Resource

2020 53

  1. Running CAT6 (Part 2)
  2. Running CAT6 (Part 1)
  3. Dependabot Pull Requests
  4. The Business Evolution
  5. Apktool v2.5.0 Released
  6. Dedication
  7. Destiny 2: Beyond Light Review
  8. Disqus to Remark42
  9. Tribalism
  10. The Good Times
  11. On the day of hack
  12. Blog Spam & Sponsored Content
  13. Mosquitoes & O Blood
  14. Lost Treasure: Rokenbok
  15. The Disconnect: Consumer vs Company
  16. Travel Blog: COVID-19
  17. Where does Dust come from?
  18. Home Hunting Stress
  19. 2020: Hurricane Edition
  20. The Hobby Project Phases
  21. Fast Food Reviews 2020
  22. Are you taught to be an adult?
  23. Stumbling into Comp Sci
  24. The Onus of New
  25. Coming Soon - Laravel 8
  26. Isolation Day 119
  27. The Apartment Life
  28. The Collapse of "Dr. Disrespect"
  29. Deploying Ghost Themes
  30. Is Nuclear Energy Returning?
  31. A Few Bad Apples
  32. Isolation Day 77
  33. Things that confuse me
  34. Isolation Day 63
  35. Dangerous Nuclear Accidents
  36. Isolation Day 49
  37. 3 Generations of Halo Modding
  38. Isolation Day 35
  39. Halo 2: Patch Format Types
  40. Isolation Day 21
  41. Ghost Blog to 100% Speed
  42. Isolation Day 7
  43. Once in a Lifetime Pandemic
  44. 30 hours. $136,000 later.
  45. Why I play Ingress
  46. Turning a Hobby into a Job
  47. Scum of the Web
  48. the Peoples Temple
  49. Fear is a Currency
  50. Epidemics (Wuhan Outbreak)
  51. DDoS Revisited (Bio-Zombie)
  52. Travel Blog: Kansas City
  53. 2020 Meetup: CLICK_HERE.exe

2019 53

  1. A Year of Blogging (2019)
  2. Space Travel
  3. Blogging to the Future
  4. Hackable Knowledge
  5. Fixing Windows 10
  6. Apktool v2.4.1 Released
  7. Kali NetHunter meets OnePlus
  8. Clearing Flooded Roads
  9. Travel Blog: Adventure of the Seas
  10. Learning about Truffles
  11. Prepping for Ghost v3
  12. Passion like a Fire
  13. Travel Blog: Chicago (2)
  14. Guide to Conference Presentations
  15. The Cicada 3301 Mystery (Puzzle 1 Solve)
  16. Rinderpest
  17. The Connected World
  18. The Collapse of a Treasure Hunt
  19. Hurricane Dorian and Tampa Florida
  20. BarCamp Tampa Bay 2019
  21. Constraint is the Rage
  22. The End of Streaming
  23. Sandwich Shop Reviews 2019
  24. Travel Blog: Madison
  25. The Evolution of Open Source
  26. Is Craig Wright Satoshi Nakamoto?
  27. The birth of an open source project
  28. Pi-hole: 19 months later
  29. The Internet Never Forgets
  30. Learning Blood Types
  31. Safeness in Familiarity
  32. Apktool in the Wild
  33. Travel Blog: Chicago
  34. Flutter: Hybrid Mobile App Development
  35. Travel Blog: Boone, NC
  36. Raising Cain
  37. The Movie Experience
  38. Fallen Shopping Carts
  39. Double Lumbar Microdiscectomy
  40. The price of healing
  41. Safety in Protocol
  42. A Boneheaded Mistake
  43. Learning about the Refrigerator
  44. The Digital War
  45. Apktool v2.4.0 Released
  46. Travel Blog: NOLA
  47. Ecosystem of Illegal Films
  48. Attention Control
  49. Ranting about people in Florida
  50. LTS (Laravel) is a joke
  51. Burnout
  52. Tech & Anxiety
  53. Healthcare Woes

2018 54

  1. A Year of Blogging (2018)
  2. Florida DevFest 2019
  3. Risk vs Reward
  4. Water Treatment - Cosme (Florida)
  5. Entering the Spice Dome
  6. The Dyatlov Pass Incident
  7. Travel Blog: Austin
  8. The Greatest Bank Heist
  9. Discovering Neil Breen
  10. I am a Nerd
  11. Why is The Lottery getting bigger?
  12. The end of Google+
  13. The Most Important System
  14. Winners and Losers
  15. The Safety of Repetition
  16. An Addiction Ended
  17. The 100% Kill Rate - Rabies
  18. Apktool v2.3.4 Released
  19. Halo MCC Revisited
  20. Moving to Ghost v2
  21. Instant is Preferred.
  22. The Slow Death of Passwords
  23. Wires in an Increasingly Wireless World
  24. Deadly Colors
  25. Eradicating Smallpox
  26. The Atomic Lake (Lake Chagan)
  27. Decommissioning a Nuclear Power Plant
  28. Evolution of Technology
  29. The libpng16 mozjpeg help guide.
  30. The Unfair Comparison
  31. Travel Blog: Aruba
  32. Fear or Confidence.
  33. The Death of Chronological Order
  34. Travel Blog: St Louis
  35. Revisiting the Radio
  36. Malicious Actors
  37. Apktool v2.3.3 Released
  38. Ingress Support Failure #1
  39. The Key to Basic Encryption
  40. The Facebook Dependency
  41. Apktool v2.3.2 Released
  42. The stress of cross-platform Java
  43. 9 Months with a Pi-hole
  44. "You have a Package Delivery Today"
  45. The internals of a Premium WordPress Theme (Gonzo)
  46. Comprehending Online Trolls
  47. Retiring Unity. Hello GNOME
  48. Taking a look at AAPT2
  49. Stumbling into a MLM (It Works!) on Accident
  50. An Evening of Nostalgia
  51. Understanding The Matrix Trilogy
  52. My Original Media Center
  53. Getting "pwned" is getting old.
  54. Slow Down

2017 9

  1. Apktool v2.3.1 Released
  2. Apktool v2.3.0 Released
  3. Bitcoin Cash (BTH) has been born. What happened on Genesis day?
  4. Apktool v2.2.4 Released
  5. Detecting Reverse Engineering on Android Applications
  6. Apktool v2.2.3 Released
  7. Apktool: Sourcetoad Open-Source Sponsorship!
  8. The human behind the keyboard
  9. Apktool v2.2.2 Released

2016 2

  1. Apktool v2.2.1 Released
  2. Surviving an amplified Wordpress pingback attack