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My name is Zhenkai and this is where I host my Obsidian notes and occasional blog posts. Have fun browsing! Feel free to say hi on Discord: @illog1c.

Don’t know what to look for? Check out some maps of content below.

• Cyber Security
• OSCP
• Red Team Ops I
• Active Directory
• Binary Exploitation
• AWS

Want to wander around? Use tags to look for notes and use the Backlinks section to navigate.

• blog: blog posts
• writeup: HTB/CTF challenge writeups
• ttp: TTPs; red teaming / pentesting-oriented notes
• course: course notes; lecture notes are often available in backlinks to daily notes
• moc: (maps of content) indices of large topics
• concept: concepts
• how-to: how-to’s / guides
• daily: daily notes, which usually contain lecture notes
• lit: literature notes which are mostly for metadata and linking purposes (e.g., a note may cite a literature note as its source), though some have actual notes or exported annotations. This website does not provide any PDF files for download.
• stub: These are mostly empty notes that only exist for linking purposes. My goal is to reduce them over time by integrating information from backlinks into the note itself.

Why are my note titles all in lowercase?

Since Zettelkasten encourages link-making, I find that lowercase note titles make inline links look more natural, e.g., A [[function]] is a mapping from [[domain]] to [[codomain]] looks better than A [[Function]] is a mapping from [[Domain]] to [[Codomain]] or A [[Function|function]] is a mapping from [[Domain|domain]] to [[Codomain|codomain]]. Although Obsidian wikilinks are now case-insensitive, it is nonetheless more productive when a link autocompletes to lowercase, which is what I want most of the time, and I can manually fix the cases where I need to capitalize a link at the start of sentence. I still keep proper nouns in their original case though. See also Zettelkasten workflow for how I take notes.

Website Roadmap

• Hide the tags row on home page.
• Display source metadata (see ContentMeta.tsx).
• Put the dark mode toggle next to the search bar.
• Display created / updated metadata.
• Display related metadata. Include mentioned pages in backlinks.
• Display source links in graph.
• Proper tag description pages (for major tags).
• Replicate Supercharged Links plugin on the website.
• Add a custom favicon.