Every (Brazilian) winter and summer break I like to get going on a big (or a few small) and more robust project(s). Last summer break I wanted to learn a bit more of C, so the Orange Sentry project was born…. and died. Oh the naivety of the beginner programmer.

However I did learn a lot, and that was the goal. Therefore I will call this one a success lol.

This winter break I want to learn, yes, but I actually want to finish the projects I start, and so finishing the backlog is going to be the real theme.

Priority number one is going to be finishing the first part of the More Than an Introduction to Computer Memory blog. The text is as of the writing of this post about 90% done, but there is still a significant amount of work to be done.

I have also recently finished my little chip8 emulator. Because I have made it intentionally insecure I can now move to step two of this project: try fuzzing it, identifying the vulnerabilities and fixing them up. Maybe I will try to learn some exploit writing on the side, but that is just an “if i have the time” thing.

If I’m feeling up to it I may try my had at writing some stuff using the eBPF library, maybe just a syscall monitoring program.

I will also try to better this website as much as possible.

That’s my plan anyway. Check-in in about a month and let’s see what I actually manage to make :)