I’m Yousaf: a hacker, a geek, a nerd – just someone obsessed with computers & the science behind them.
This is my home on the Internet where I share some of my thoughts and document any projects I am currently working on.
Who am I?
I am a Computer Science student but I am actively trying to break into the cybersecurity industry learning trades of the craft myself through various books, trainings, courses and Capture The Flag challenges that I play to practice my skills.
I enjoy programming, and learning how computers work at a lower level. For that I am working on a few projects that I think would help me build up the technical depth.
I’m quite active in my local BSides hacking community, where I hangout to discuss cybersecurity, tech or which city has the better food.
Ongoing Projects
CS50 by Harvard University
This is Harvard University’s course with a focus on foundational computing concepts mainly programming and its sub-topics. The course is divided into weeks covering Core CS subjects like C, Python, Arrays, Algorithms, Data Structures, Memory, AI, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, Flask and Cybersecurity.
The goal is to understand about the key areas of computer programming and follow along the hands-on problem sets and projects that come in this multiple weeks-long course.
Building an 8-bit Computer
This is a project initially created by Ben Eater where we build a functioning 8-bit computer using a combination of low level electronic components like breadboards, digital circuits, capacitors, resistors and a lot of wires to make sense of all that.
The goal here is to recreate core components that make up a computer like RAM, Clock, Registers using low level electronic circuitry to understand how each of them operate at a deeper level inside a computer.