OSS Tool & Alternatives
3 min readCamoufox: An Open-Source Anti-Detect Browser for Web Scraping
“A practical look at Camoufox, an open-source stealth browser built on modified Firefox C++ binaries, covering its pros, cons, and setup.”
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Open-Source Tools & Digital Notes
A curated notebook exploring modern open-source software, self-hosted alternatives to proprietary platforms, indispensable web utilities, and occasional technical deep dives.
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8 min readScraping political ad libraries: how we built it, why Selenium failed, and why Camoufox worked
“A practical breakdown of extracting political campaign data from Facebook's Ad Library, defeating anti-bot blocks with Camoufox, and building multi-step fallback pipelines.”
OSS Tool & Alternatives
6 min readOpen-Source Alternatives: Replacing Proprietary Web Tools with Local-First Software
“A practical guide to the most dependable open-source and self-hosted replacements for closed-source tools — from password management to document processing and offline utilities.”
Writeup
7 min readDetecting Distributed Denial of Service with Heterogeneous GraphSAGE
“A deep dive into representing bidirectional network flows as topological graph snapshots and achieving 99.4% classification accuracy across SYN and UDP floods.”
OSS Tool & Alternatives
4 min readCyberChef Recipes: The Open-Source In-Browser Swiss Army Knife
“Essential CyberChef recipes for parsing encoded strings, nested Base64 payloads, and raw telemetry entirely client-side without sending data to third parties.”
Guide
9 min readSetting Up Suricata 7 as a Passive Network Tap in a Linux Homelab
“A hands-on walkthrough for configuring Suricata 7 on an Ubuntu Server mirror port with multi-threading, custom ET rules, and JSON EVE alert streaming.”
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