be0x74a's first post!

Hi all! Welcome to the first post of this project.

I have been wanting to create a tech blog for some time, but never had quite the experience with technical writing until a few weeks ago when I was asked to write an email regarding my team's experience and response to the CVE-2021-44228 (Log4J vulnerability which I'll probably get into deeper on a future blog post).

After writing that email I knew I would probably like the experience of running a tech blog and for these past weeks, the idea has been lingering in my mind. So as many do at the start of a new year, I decided to open a new chapter in my life: having my own blog and settling my brand on the world, be0x74a.

For those wondering about the meaning of the brand, be0x74a is actually beta with the t replaced by its ASCII hexadecimal character code, you guessed it, 0x74. As for the origins of the moniker beta itself, what started as a joke between some friends in college (one friend being the alpha and me the beta), was solidified by a thought a friend once had that went like this:

In a beta version there's always room for improvement

And that's the mindset I wanna approach my life with and, so, I embraced it.

That's it for the first post of what I hope will be a very active blog! Thank you for taking your time to read it and hope to get your attention next time too!