Things I Use

Personal

• Web browser: Brave Browser
• Private email/calendar/drive/vpn/password manager: Proton
• Private messaging: Signal
• Multi-factor authentication: YubiKey
• Transcriber: MacWhisper
• Creating demos: OSB Studio
• Writing papers: Overleaf
• Writing assistant: Grammarly
• Creating figures: Inkscape
• Paper organizer: Zotero
• Feed reader: Feedly
• Time shifting: Timeshifter
• Download video/audio: yt-dlp
• Genealogy: gramps
• Tor: Tor Browser

Software Development

• Project management: asana
• Time tracking: toggl
• IDE: VS Code
• Text & Hex editor: vim
• Source code version control: git
• Python version management: pyenv
• Python packaging: uv
• Python code template: cookiecutter

Analysis Tools

• Dynamic analysis:

  • Automated Sandbox (malware): CAPEv2
  • Honeypot: cowrie
  • Debugging on Windows: x64dbg
  • Debugging on GNU/Linux: gdb with (gdbinit)
  • Network traffic collection & analysis: Wireshark
  • Fuzzing:
    • Infrastructure: ClusterFuzz
    • C/C++ with clang: libFuzzer
    • C++: fuzztest
    • Java: jazzer
    • Python: atheris
  • Concolic execution: angr

• Static analysis:

  • Unpacking: unipacker
  • Disassembling & Decompiling: Ghidra
  • Locating security bugs: CodeQL and Semgrep

• Pentesting framework: kali

LLM Tools

• Interacting with LLMs locally: AnythingLLM
• Implementing LLM-based solutions:
  • LangFuse
  • LangChain

Ongoing Skills Development

• Programming: leetcode
• Reverse engineering Windows binaries: flare-on
• Linux Hacking: pwnable
• System Design: course
• Operating System Engineering: xv6 and course
• Writing: "Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace" by William Colomb
• LinkedIn Learning: courses
• Presenting Data and Information by Edward Tufte: course