Jorge Morán

Hi, I’m a recovering software engineer who now works in application security. I love self-hosting. If you browse around you’ll find things I’ve done in my home network, maybe a thing or two about security, and the occasional box walkthrough. Also, I’m currently learning about ASM and x86 exploitation.

A Cautionary Tale About Fanless Systems

I’ve had fanless systems for a few years, and I recently decided it was time for an upgrade.

Adding Code Highlighting in Blackboard's Question Import Format

Blackboard is a popular learning platform that many universities use to manage content and exams.

Managing a Hugo Site as a Web CMS

In this post, we’ll create a web-based management tool to create posts on a Hugo blog, to do this, we’ll use Docker to deploy a VSCode Server instance with Caddy as a reverse proxy.

Rotating Guest Password of an Omada Controller's SSID With a Script

I used to have a captive portal in my house for guests, but it was tedious to hand out individual passwords, and keeping track of the newly generated passwords was not the best experience management-wise.

Fixing Asymmetric Routing Issues in a Homelab

Discovering the Asymmetric Routing Problem This week I wanted to improve the network monitoring strategy of my homelab.

Mounting the Internal and External SD Card on Kali NetHunter

A few weeks ago I got a Samsung Tab S9+ .

Recalibrating an APC UPS after replacing the battery

For a while, I’ve used a BR1100M2-LM UPS to support my rack.

Configuring Unraid and a Synology NAS with a UPS

We’ve been having frequent power outages where I live, so I’ve had to acquire a UPS to make sure my devices have a chance to safely turn off without risking data loss.