Day 001: Predict, Then Run
Six lessons of Learn Python the Hard Way, one floor division miss, and a PINEAPPLE in a comment.
Security
2026
Forge Log
· 10 min
The Substrate, and the Inline I Refused to Keep
Three more prompts done on ShieldCV. The crypto and storage substrate is in place at 100% coverage, the resume editor works with sandboxed PDF import, and Codex …
C Journey
· 5 min
Day 27: The Ghost in the Register
K&R 3.7 and 3.8. break, continue, and the one place K&R says goto is okay.
Forge Log
· 12 min
Day 1: Foundation, False Starts, and a CSP That Actually Works
I am building a thing called ShieldCV for the Handshake x OpenAI Codex Creator Challenge, and I want to write about it as I go. Not a launch post. Not a …
C Journey
· 3 min
Day 026: The Negative Domain
I came back after 17 days off expecting to be rusty. The Feynman test said otherwise. Turns out the concepts stuck. What didn’t stick was the habit of showing …
C Journey
· 7 min
Day 023: The Postmortem
Chapter 2 closes. Not with new material but with a live audit that forced application of everything the chapter built.
C Journey
· 4 min
Day 011: The Quiet Byte
K&R 1.8 and 1.9. Call by value, character arrays, and the single byte that holds all of C together.
C Journey
· 4 min
Day 010: The Memory Next Door
K&R 1.6 and 1.7. Arrays, character arithmetic, functions. And the first time I watched a bug disappear into memory that wasn't mine.
C Journey
· 5 min
Day 007.5: The Exploit Lab
Day 007.5: The Exploit Lab Seven days of K&R on my primary workstation. Seven days of learning how C thinks. But learning C was never the point. The point is …
C Journey
· 4 min
Day 004 What They Didn't Know
K&R section 1.4. Symbolic constants. The preprocessor. And the realization that every layer was built by people who could not see what was coming.