That you can apply right now — As a writer and a reader, bearing different hobbies and a full-time job, I know it can be hard to find time to read an article about writing tips, especially when there are plenty of them out here. Also, you sometimes just lack the patience to sit still and read…

Living… is the hardest of all. — There is something intricately complicated about preserving life. And I talk about anything. Letting things die is much easier than keeping them alive. Think of a fire you made. It’s hard to keep the flames going, and how hard to light it in the first place? But how easy can…

A dark poem — I once didn’t take the Midnight Train. I was drawn to the beach, Like the waves are drawn ashore, Looking for nothing But longing some more. I went barefoot to feel the tide unfold, It was grim and dark And the wet sand bore A rocky promise of something more. …

A series of short, reflective thoughts — What are my limits? It feels like the harder I try to find them, the worse I get to know them. My personal space keeps getting stepped on by the needs/whims of others, and even my own often venture savagely to cross that line. My sanity is yet another limit…

What I learned from writing my first novel — I finished my first novel, and a few days later, after gulping that notion of final, I felt like I had to write something about it. I was about to go to bed when that happened, and although I wasn’t sure what it was that I had to write about…

A series about manual exploitation — These penetration testing write-up series are about owning HackTheBox machines through manual methods like you would have to do for an OSCP examination. I will try to avoid Metasploit the best I can, even if only to set up a Meterpreter listener. These are not simple write-ups like those you…

A series of short, reflective thoughts — Quite some time has passed without me being this alone with a pen and thoughts. I feel like I’m about to confide, although I don’t know what. And I’m not sure if it’s to myself or to this paper. I see that both stay at the same distance from my…

Unless you do something about it — Afew months ago, we were going through, let’s call it, a wave of restrictions in Portugal. Note that I didn’t say lockdown because we were not locked in our houses at that time, and I believe all sorts of establishments were open, just as frontiers were not closed, etc. …

On a regular basis at least — I just finished writing a short story and, I realized for the first time: I will never write for an active audience. That could mean many things, but for me, it basically revolves around two simple, identifiable reasons. I can’t, and I don’t want to be writing for an active…