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Setting Up This Blog: A Log of the Build Log

This blog exists because I wanted permanent documentation that nobody can take from me. Platforms get demonetized, algorithms shift, accounts get flagged — none of that happens to a folder of Markdown files sitting in a git repo I control. Fitting, then, that the first real post here is about standing the thing up. Wasn’t a clean one-shot deploy. Worth recording exactly where it went sideways.

The stack decision

Started by almost going down the Ghost-on-a-VPS route — self-hosted Ghost via Docker on Oracle’s free-tier cloud. Backed out of it once I was honest about what I actually wanted: zero ongoing maintenance. A VPS means an OS to patch, a Docker daemon to babysit, the occasional “why did my server stop responding” debugging session. None of that is what I’m here for.

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Building and Shipping Dendrite RevShell

I wanted a reverse shell payload reference for the brand — something in the same spirit as revshells.com, but mine: my domain, my design, my payload list. This is the build log.

Why build this instead of just using revshells.com

Two reasons. First, it’s a genuinely useful tool to have under my own domain — a reference I control, that I can extend, that points back to HackVault instead of someone else’s project. Second, it was a small enough scope to actually finish. I’ve learned that the projects I ship are the small ones — narrow scope, clear “done” state, demoable the moment it’s live.

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