The hosts of Weekly Dev Chat are pleased to announce we will be hosting Advent of Code/Cyber. Come join us in real life on December 18 at Strathcona Public Library. We’ll be participating in Advent of Code and Advent of Cyber. Bring your laptop and come join the fun!
See here for more details and registration.
In this episode I explain how I previously solved Day 1 - Part 1 of the Advent of Code 2025 problem. I then proceed to fail to solve part 2, though I think I was close. I got stuck in the “keep trying random stuff” mindset instead of sitting back and thinking about the problem. A problem that is magnified when I’m recording as I have to think and talk at the same time.
[Read More]Part 2 of the Lock machine. I was able to capture both the user and system flags with the help of the walkthrough. My biggest learning was with the MSI Installer bug where you can use the installer repair action to elevate yourself from Guest to System Administrator.
[Read More]I’m pleased to announce that versions 8.0.0, 9.0.0, and 10.0.0 of the XPlugin.iOS.BEMCheckBox have been released. XPlugin.iOS.BEMCheckBox allows you to use the iOS BEMCheckBox, created by Boris Emorine (Boris-Em), in your MAUI projects.
You can find the releases on NuGet:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/SaturdayMP.XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox
XPlugin project:
https://github.com/saturdaymp/XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox
BEMCheckBox project:
https://github.com/saturdaymp/BEMCheckBox
The XPlugin.iOS.BEMCheckBox versions now match the .NET version so version 8 targets .NET 8, version 9 targets.NET 9, and so on. Version 8 and onwards use BEMCheckBox v2.2.0, which requires iOS 18 or higher.
[Read More]In this episode I attempt the Lock machine on @HackTheBox . Spoiler: I almost captured the user flag but ran out of time. Got delayed by installing items on my new Kali Linux WSL and learning new about MSFvemon, setting Python virtual environments, and the Cryptodome library.
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