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2026
19
May
One Intense Week: Semester Exams, PyTorch Docathon, And AI Odyssey
A personal note on balancing semester exams, PyTorch Docathon 2026 contributions, and a fast TryHackMe AI Odyssey CTF run that reached global #1 within the first ...
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5
May
Wiz Ultimate Cloud Security Championship: 11/12 Down, Waiting for the Final Challenge
A clean April-May update on my Wiz Ultimate Cloud Security Championship run: 11 challenges solved, global #22, 220 points, and one final challenge left.
wiz ctf cloud-security portfolio kubernetes bug-bounty
1
Apr
Days 16-31 of HCode: Ugadi, Lab Internals, Frontend Done, and the Next Phase
Hey guys, this is a combined update for Days 16 to 31 of HCode.
hcode devlog student ugadi lab-internals cybersecurity
15
Mar
Day 7 of HCode: Qualifier Test, Assignments, and a Placement Reality Check
Hey guys, this is Day 7 of HCode updates.
hcode devlog student placements gpa cybersecurity
14
Mar
Day 6 of HCode: DarkCTF, ACE Testing, and Free-Tier Pain
Day 6 of HCode updates, and Day 6 of self updates.
hcode ace ctf devlog testing cybersecurity
13
Mar
Day 5 of HCode: Post-Mids Reset, Reviews, and Realignment
I completed my midterms, and honestly that is a big tension relief from my mind.
hcode webclaw devlog product testing cybersecurity
12
Mar
Day 4 of HCode: WebClaw and the Browser-Native Agent Runtime
After seven straight days of dev, test, dev, test, and review around my HCode project, I am back to the other idea that has been sitting in my head: using WebGPU ...
ai-agents hcode security browser open-source webgpu
11
Mar
HCode Day 3: First Mid Done, First Testing Round Closed
Done with my first day of mids.
security ide vscode hcode devlog testing
10
Mar
HCode Product Baseline: Midterms Tomorrow, Product Thinking Today
I do not know why my brain works like this.
security ide vscode startup product devlog
9
Mar
HCode: Forking VS Code Into a Security IDE (work in progress)
This is not a release post. HCode is not done. It’s barely holding together right now — and that’s kind of the point of writing about it today.
security ide vscode ctf bug-bounty open-source
8
Mar
DITTOWARE: How I Built an EDR Evasion PoC That Bypassed 63/72 AV Vendors Including Microsoft Defender
⚠️ Research only. This is a documented proof-of-concept built for defensive security research and responsible disclosure. The payload executes calc.exe — nothi...
cybersecurity malware-research edr-evasion windows responsible-disclosure red-team
7
Mar
DDC-CTF: Building a 121-Challenge CTF Platform for a National Cybersecurity Conclave
I am the Vice President of DDC — Digital Defence Club at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT). this year in feb , we organised a national-level cyber...
ctf cybersecurity full-stack nodejs mongodb build-in-public
6
Mar
VoidDrop: Building an Ephemeral P2P File Transfer App Where the Server Never Sees Your Files
“The Void Never Remembers.”
android kotlin webrtc security p2p build-in-public
5
Mar
Z-Umbra: Privacy as a Commodity — An On-Chain Anonymity Market on Avalanche
We won the Avalanche track at Team 1 Hackathon, Hyderabad. This is not a writeup about what I built. It’s a writeup about what I realized.
blockchain avalanche solidity kotlin hackathon privacy
4
Mar
NACC: Turning Your Entire Network Into a Single Intelligent AI Agent Using MCP
What if you could say “compress all the log files on the Kali VM, then move the results to the Ubuntu server, then send me a summary” — and your network just… did...
ai-agents mcp python distributed-systems networking build-in-public
3
Mar
ClassPulse: Killing the Attendance Register With WiFi, GPS, and a Raspberry Pi
Every student knows the ritual. The professor walks in. The attendance sheet starts its lap around the room. Someone three rows back marks themselves present even...
flutter android python iot raspberry-pi education
2
Mar
USB-AI: Running an Offline LLM From a USB Drive — Architecture, Trade-offs, and Lessons
What if your AI assistant had no home?
ai llm offline python gemma usb
1
Mar
Hello World: Building at the intersection of AI, Security, and Systems
I’m Vasanth Adithya. Student at CBIT, Hyderabad. Ethical Hacker. Someone with a dangerously unhealthy obsession with understanding how things work at the lowest l...
build-in-public cybersecurity student ai-agents projects