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Career What I’m Up To

How I landed my job at Auth0

  The opportunity I first became aware of opening for a “Senior R&D Content Engineer” at Auth0 on August 18th. You can see the job description here. I did my research — because of course I did my research — and Auth0 turned out to be a very interesting opportunity for a number of reasons: […]

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August episodes from Tampa Bay’s tech podcasts

I thought I’d try a new feature for the end of each month: A listing of the month’s episodes from Tampa Bay tech podcasts! Here are the ones I know about, listed from newest podcast on the block, to one that’s been around for years. Friends That Code Friends that Code is the newest podcast […]

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Programming

“My code isn’t working” is a great problems-and-solutions flowchart for Python programmers

Dr. Martin Jones, the author behind the book and site Python for Biologists, has come up with a chart to help Python programmers when their code doesn’t work and they can’t figure out why. He writes: A few times a year, I have the job of teaching a bunch of people who have never written code […]

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Programming What I’m Up To

A more Pythonic approach to one of my “Capture the Flag” solutions

In my article about the Capture the Flag at The Undercroft in which I recently participated, I wrote about my solution to this particular challenge: Your answer lies in the 1’s and 0’s… 0010111 00001111 00010111, 00011001 00001111 10101 00000001 00010010 00000101 00010010 00001001 00000111 00001000 00010100 (Make sure to use the comma, and spaces […]

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Reading Material Security Tampa Bay

My list of links from class discussions during UC Baseline’s InfoSec week

During the Information Security week of the UC Baseline cybersecurity program, the instructors asked us a lot of questions whose answers we had to look up. As a way to maximize participation, we were encouraged to share lots of links of the class’ Slack channel, which also functioned as a backchannel, as well as a […]

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The final lap of UC Baseline: Python!

For the past four weeks, I’ve been spending over eight hours a day in a classroom in Ybor City, as a student in the inaugural cohort of UC Baseline, the cybersecurity training program offered by Tampa Bay’s security guild, The Undercroft. We’ve taken the following courses under the tutelage of these instructors: Course Instructor Hardware […]

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Tampa Bay What I’m Up To

Casing the joint

It’s “Case the Joint Day” at UC Baseline, the cybersecurity training program offered by Tampa Bay’s security guild, The Undercroft. We’ve been provided with two target computers — one on the local network set up in the classroom, and one virtual machine set up remotely in the cloud — to examine via all manner of […]