Week Notes 2026-04

Date Published: 2026-01-25

📅 Week of 2026-01-19 - 2026-01-25

I've followed Noisy Deadline's blog for a while now, and I always loved seeing her week notes. Week notes are an indie web concept where you publish a post at the end of each week detailing things you did. I decided I'd document my studying within the infosec space through week notes.

📚 Read

• HTB How to Become a Pentester This was a nice intro guide on how to get started in pentesting. It actually inspired me to do these week notes. Having a blog showing continual learning should be helpful to set me apart when I'm looking for a job. I'm going to also start doing more CTFs and things like HTB machines to build my skills and to post write-ups for them.

🎥 Watched

• Nahamsec - This simple vulnerability was worth $70,000
• Talking Sasquach - BLEShark Nano: Pocket Sized WiFi Security Testing!

🎧 Listened

• The OSINT Podcast - Ep 2
  • Paste Gmail address in sheets, hover over it, may give you name and confirm it's an account
  • Url for confirming valid Gmail account with calendar (src): https[:]//calendar[.]google[.]com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=youremail@example[.]com
• Dark Diaries Podcast - Ep 166: Maxie This was a fun episode. I always love hearing stories of physical pen tests. The underwater data center bit was interesting as well.

👨‍💻 Hacked:

• Completed HTB File Inclusion Module
• Set up this blog!

🏫 School

• Studying for the CompTIA Project+ certificate