How I Built a Windows VM for Cybersecurity Labs (and What Went Wrong)

Git as railroad

I struggled a lot to understand Git. Once I started thinking of it in terms of a railroad — with stations, tracks, train cars, and a station master (Git) — it finally clicked. This post captures how I first made sense of Git. 1. git init builds a train station in the

How I turned my tag soup into a map

TL;DR: I had no clear tagging system for my blog posts — just scattered labels with no structure. By grouping tags into buckets like Domain, Focus Area, and Tool, I built a system that not only organizes my posts but also reflects my mental model of computer science. The Problem

Buffer v. disk - a visceral lesson.

TL;DR: Turns out, “unsaved” really means “nonexistent” — I chased a phantom file for 10 minutes. I created and opened in VS Code a .ps1 file from the terminal. PS C:\Users\EliKent\Documents\WindowsPowerShell> code sandbox.ps1 But I didn’t actually save it — I just started typing.

Heaps and stacks in Python

TL;DR: Heaps are where a Python program stores its data. Stacks are where the computations happen. This post breaks down what happens in RAM when Python runs a simple script. The Script: name = "Eli" x = 2 + 3 y = sorted([name, x]) Step 1: python script.py When