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🐝 Hive Five 198 - Do Hard Things

Fresh from the Colorado mountains 🏔️ From a LAN-party optimized house to AI-driven data patterns, PHP security hardening & bug bounty success stories. Plus NeovimConf returns & Anthropic is hiring!

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Nov 12, 2024

🐝 Hive Five 197 - Winning doesn’t always feel like winning

Life-changing purchases under $100, Common Detection & Evasion Techniques for WAFs, Aaron Swartz Day 2024, From failing 22 times to building a $2.5B Company, and more...

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Nov 07, 2024

🚀 Buzz & Boost: Ciarán Cotter aka monkehack

Irish-Japanese web hacker living in Scotland. Building his own company, growing his weekly newsletter, and producing interesting web research.

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Nov 04, 2024

🐝 Hive Five 196 - How To Make $100k Bug Hunting in 2025

The 2024 Best Inventions list, Notion Email client, Neovim Markdown setup, 20 essential Gmail settings, HeroCTF v6 writeups, and more...

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Nov 03, 2024

🍯 Bee-side 195 - From Cyber Fines to Community Building: When Quality Trumps Speed

Subtitle: SEC hands out major cybersecurity breach penalties, Linear and former Twitter CEO advocate for slow-quality over fast-shipping, Niantic's community transformation success, OWASP's new security ruleset, and a fresh take on DevOps-as-a-Service

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Nov 02, 2024

TIL you can Import CSV files into Google Calendar

This is particularly handy if you mapped out an event or trip in Google Sheets but want it in Google Calendar as well.

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Oct 28, 2024

🐝 Hive Five 195 - A Better Web Is Possible

Leaking Text Nodes with CSS, ZwinK is Back, How Do Browsers Work, Forward-Deployed Engineers, and more...

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Oct 27, 2024

🍯 Bee-side 194: From $10K Bug Bounties to $100K Chrome Extensions

MIT Email Spoofing, AI Home Staging App Hits $10K/Month, Burp Suite Updates, SpaceX's Flying Skyscraper, Bug Bounty Drama, WordPress vs WP Engine, and more...

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Oct 21, 2024

🐝 Hive Five 194 - How The Internet You Loved Died

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books, The Darkest Side of Bug Bounty, Amazon Paid $2.1M+ in Bounties, Buy-For-Life Gear, The Internet's Best Festival, and more...

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Oct 21, 2024

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🍯 Bee-side 193 - Tactile Delight

Virtual monitor for screen sharing, 33 ways to find your next $10k/month startup idea, and more.

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Oct 14, 2024

🐝 Hive Five 193 - Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck

From email spoof to backdoor in Zendesk, Only 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML, the WordPress drama continues, Markdown as Mindmaps, and more...