Ciaran Whiteside
Analyst. Generalist. Tinkerer.
Vulnerability analyst. Security practitioner. Technical builder.
I work in cybersecurity and use this site to document practical builds, technical experiments, and the lessons learned from making ideas work properly.
A compact archive of practical builds, technical experiments, and project write-ups from things I've built, fixed, or learned the hard way.
My first serious Next.js build. It started with fast experimentation, then became a real crash course in architecture, debugging, and owning implementation decisions end to end.
A fast, personal photography portfolio for Maisie Douglas, built with handcrafted HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and tuned for strong performance.
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Essays and notes on cybersecurity, technology, and the thinking behind practical technical work.
The security industry has spent three years worrying about AI phishing emails. Meanwhile, AI has been quietly automating the entire attack chain.
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