Hey 👋, I'm Nick.

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About Me

I'm an enthusiastic and passionate software engineer with over 9 years of experience. I'm fond of all things web and always striving to build user friendly, scalable and stable web solutions that get users engaged. Trained in the dark arts of full stack development I have gained experience in a broad range of technologies and languages. Eventually I hope to pursue a role where I can have a high impact on the product. In my spare time I like to hack on open source or personal projects, read books or watch a good movie.

Latest Posts

A brief overview of some of the things I wrote recently. But fear not, there is more!

Where's dig

15 Jul 2022

Nowadays, it is relatively common to find a stripped-down docker container. While great to save precious bytes on hard drives, this might complicate things when you quickly need to debug something. This post explains how you can quickly install dig or nslookup within your container on different distros.

Add styling to an active link in Next.js

8 Jan 2022

In this post I show how you can use router api to detect active link in Next.js

Hack The Box - Cap

7 Oct 2021

In this post, I'll go over Cap from Hack the Box. An easy level Linux machine where the name is nice hint. An IDOR gives access to a PCAP with unencrypted traffic and misconfigured capabilites allow getting a shell as root.

Experimenting with the OMIGOD vulnerabilities!

24 Sep 2021

Being able to experiment with vulnerabilities is crucial to gain a deeper understanding of them. In this post, we'll look at creating an environment with a vulnerable version of the OMI agent.