Creating a InfoSec Blog

I’ve noticed that I like teaching people what I’ve learned, but I was never really good at it. Something I’ve always found outstanding, was the sheer amount of helpful people and resources in the InfoSec community.

I’ve been thinking about creating a personal blog for a while and just now followed these thoughts.

I want to help getting people into this field and spark discussion. At last, technology is always evolving. Those who stop learning, may be left behind.

How to start?

Just the intention to start this blog did not get me very far. The first problem I was confroned with was the choice on how to publish my thoughts to the world. After a little research I decided, that a static web page should be sufficient, since there are plattforms like Twitter and Mastodon, which I prefer for interaction. Yet, hosting the website myself seemed like an unnecessary hassle. That’s why I was very glad to figure out, that GitHub offeres a GitHub Pages site for every account. This also comes with the benefit of a somewhat personalized domain name: anakles.github.io.

Very enthusiatically I dove into the world of Jekyll, the Ruby framework that is used to host GitHub pages. Only to be then overwhelmed. I have never been among the best programmers, but were always able to handle myself. But diving into a completely new language and framework, years after I have written my last line of code, was harder than I initially expected.

Fortunatly Jekyll makes this really easy. I’ve grabbed a nice looking, publicly available template and changed everything I needed. I’m sure, as time goes on, I will change the look and feel even more.

The rest is just writing my first article and push everything into my repository.

More to come

In the future, you can expect a lot more content from me. I want to share

• News
• HTB writeups
• Current research projects
• Great resources and much more.