 Hello and Welcome

Hey nerds. This is where I break and build things. Im Samara Eli and this is my neocities. Why Neocities and the Retro design?

I started it when I got laid off from my last cybersecurity engineering role as a way to catalog my side projects.

Some of these will be in the form of documentation, as best I can, because a lot of what I'm messing around with here is edge case shenanigans like the Debian ZFS thing or the Data Center server location OSINT thing. I would not recommend following any of these as though they're tutorials as they're pretty use-case specific and are more self-serving.

Some of these projects will be research and writing. One thing I plan to touch on heavily is en-shittification and the way we've engineered ourselves into a nonsense situation with technology with competing standards and conflicting interests.

I'm going to be at Seattle Zine Fest on the 20th of July 2025. Please come say hi if you're in the area!

󱦺 Latest Article

Scraping API Keys Programmatically: A quick and dirty PoC about my approach to hunting for leaked API keys in public repositories.

This project utilizes GitHub and Sourcegraph to pull search results and then checks for keys matching a known API keys regex. The we consolidate, dedupe, and test the keys. Spoiler alert: it's disturbingly easy and people are very bad at this. Read more →