Weekly Dev Log 2026-W01

🗓️ This Week

📱 iOS (SwiftUI)

• Worked on the SwiftUI tutorial and completed Section 4 Steps 9–12 (Create an algorithm for badges)

🌐 Web Development

• Started posting articles on Dev.to
• Managing my articles using GitHub and GitHub Actions

🔐 Security (TryHackMe)

• Completed OWASP Top 10 2025: IAAA Failures and Application Design Flaws on TryHackMe

💡 Key Takeaways

• Learned basic state management through implementing a badge system in SwiftUI
• Building a habit of posting regularly is important for consistency
• Application design flaws can lead to serious security vulnerabilities
• Relearned how to check port status using nc and Nmap in Bash
• Learned how to send POST requests using curl
• Learned how to decrypt data using OpenSSL
• Understood the difference between Base64 encoding and AES-128-ECB encryption
• Learned how to use Gobuster

🚀 Next Week

• Test the badge algorithm implementation
• Continue posting small articles on Dev.to
• Complete the remaining OWASP challenge rooms