Writeups

Lab writeups and notes.

NeoGPT — Self-Hosted AI Assistant

How I built a fully private AI assistant on an old laptop with Ollama, Open WebUI, and Docker — plus the local DNS and reverse-proxy lessons along the way.

Self-Hosted AI Docker Homelab
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TCM Practical Bug Bounty — Notes & PWPA Prep

Working through TCM Security's Practical Bug Bounty course and studying for the PWPA certification — writeups landing here as I go.

TCM Bug Bounty PWPA
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Wazuh SIEM — Install Notes + Issues (Pi)

What worked, what broke, and the exact steps I used to get a stable deployment on Raspberry Pi.

Wazuh Homelab Blue Team
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HackTheBox: Cap

An Easy Linux box: a web IDOR leaks a packet capture with cleartext FTP creds, then a Linux capability on python3.8 hands over root.

HackTheBox IDOR Linux Privesc
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OpenClaw Assistant on Raspberry Pi

How I deployed my own OpenClaw assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 and wired it into Telegram as a personal SOC/dev helper.

OpenClaw Homelab Automation
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