Hey there, internet wanderer — I'm Reps4Thor, and this little slice of the web is my lab, my notebook, and occasionally my chaos gremlin. If you've stumbled in here, you're probably into hacking, CTFs, puzzle-solving, code, or just watching someone break things and put them back together.
read log →Distillation Experiments: Corn Wash Edition
Took the mad scientist hat out for a spin today. Tinkering with a sweet feed corn wash, running it through my trusty copper Frankenstill, then throwing the results into reflux mode for a surprisingly clean 90% spirit.
read log →Cloudflare Pages vs Workers: The Dumb Mistake That Wasted Hours
I deployed the right code to the wrong Cloudflare product. Everything "looked" fine. Builds ran. The dashboard nodded politely. And yet my site behaved like it had amnesia. Here's the field guide to avoiding that trap.
read log →Connection Refused: The Mosquitto Docker Checklist
Welcome to the club. The club has jackets. The jackets say "it was the port mapping." A battle-tested checklist for Mosquitto running in Docker — from "it's broken" to "I can prove exactly what's broken" fast.
read log →I Turned a Meshtastic Node Into a Message Bus
Mesh is fun when it's just radio nerds whispering into the void. Mesh gets dangerous (in a good way) when you can capture, replay, route, alert, and integrate those messages. That's where MQTT comes in.
read log →PhreakNIC 26 Treasure Hunt Shoutout
This year at PhreakNIC 26, my brother Nirtom and I somehow went from "let's play some CTFs" to "hey, why are we literally digging for treasure at 11:21 PM?" Out of 1,575 grid squares, we found it. Then we sprinted back to the main CTF.
read log →Bare Metal, Bad Decisions, and a Blade in Germany
When you rent a bare-metal blade in a German data center on the cheap, you tell yourself a lie: "How hard could this be?" Spoiler: hard enough that I failed the Proxmox install four or five times. This is the story so far.
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