Build Your Own Port Scanner in Python (and Understand How Nmap Thinks)
A port scanner is the “hello world” of offensive tooling. It’s simple enough to build in an afternoon, but building one teaches you more abo...
Sep 18, 2026
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octoscope 0.35.0 — your activity, in the right order
The Activity tab has been showing you an almost-sorted feed for months. Fixing that was not the plan — it was what building the feature unco...
octoscope 0.33.0 — the part of a pull request nobody reads line by line
The scan now reads your npm lockfile and tells you when a dependency starts running code at install — or when the same version quietly ships...
octoscope 0.32.0 — the Overview tab: profile, social and activity counters, languages bar, top repositories and network
There is a question the Repos tab could not answer until now. Not "how much did I commit to this one?" — the drill-in has told you that for ...
Back to Basics: What a Forensic Investigation Can Prove — and What It Can’t
This post is going back to the basics in forensic investigations. Not because the basics are...
Sep 6, 2026
Kept Getting Strange GitHub Followers. So I Measured Them
Over the past several weeks, I kept seeing something unusual in my GitHub followers. Not one...
Sep 6, 2026
Meet octoscope — your GitHub profile, at a glance, in your terminal
The problem If you work on GitHub every day, you probably know the dance. You're deep in a...
Sep 4, 2026
FinderGit v0.1.0 — Stop Tabbing Between Finder and Your Git Client
A day with twelve repositories Before. You have a ~/Projects folder with twelve Git...
Sep 4, 2026
octoscope 0.27.0 — a scan that notices, not just describes
There is a question a security tool ought to be able to answer, and octoscope's could not: did...
Sep 4, 2026