Changing o' the Guard

I’ve been so very inconsistent updating this blog. I kept telling myself that this time it will be different and that I will update more! Let’s face the facts, that’s not really happening anytime soon. So instead, no promises this time.

I’m migrating systems again. It seems that’s probably more of what this blog is about than anything else. No one really cares all that much about those issues. In fact, more often than not, it’s just purely me capturing some history or technical knowledge so that when things break, I can go back and look at how I changed this so I can get the system back up and running.

I’ve been hosting this blog for more than a decade on my own hardware. My original domain was ‘pushesp.net’ or something like that, and when I really got further into vulnerability analysis and penetration testing work at my first job, I found myself writing exploits so much, that I realized that the name of the blog was wrong.

For the unaware, ‘pushesp.net’ was a reference to the Intel x86 instruction push %esp which effectively was the instruction to store the extendend stack pointer on the stack in preparation for a new context. When I started getting into return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks as my bread and butter at work, I realized it should be ‘pop %ebp’ instead, since that is where the chaos really starts. When the attacker can control the ebp register, you are controlling a lot of the system. Honestly, eip is better, as it’s the instruction pointer, but someone had beat me to that domain, so ebp had to suffice.

All that said, it served me well, despite the uninitiated referring to the site as ‘Pope BP’… as if I was the Catholic Bishop of Roman Oil. I always corrected them and I was fine with it since I got to nerd out for a bit about this very topic.

Anyway, long post short, I’m going to do the thing that I thought about doing when GitHub came out originally, just use GitHub as the blog. So here we are.

I’ll be moving posts over from my old Ghost system and rely on a more reliable hosting of GitHub Pages. Maybe I’ll use this to document my journey of moving off the old stack and setting it up as a Kubernetes playground.

All that said, maybe I’ll add a confession here. Working on blogs have been mentally exhausting for me. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, AuDHD being what it is and all, and so I have probably a dozen or so half written articles that never were published because I kept trying to find the right way to say what I wanted instead of just saying it and then maybe getting some questions. As part of my move to GitHub Pages, and in the advent of AI, I’m incorporating Claude into my post regime. Claude’s role will be limited to SEO, organization, and probably some editorial proofing. I tend to ramble, and while I feel like all this context is necessary (cough AuDHD cough) it’s probably not.

Any who… stay frosty friends.