Hi, I’m Deniz.

Welcome to my devlog. I document whatever I learn or build. Mainly focusing on (but not limited to) cybersecurity related topics. I learn by building programs and solving problems to gather hands-on experience. You’ll find my CTF writeups, notes on technologies and techniques I learn along the way, project demos and free(as in freedom) and open source software.

Segmented Cybersecurity Homelab

This series documents my cybersecurity homelab on a single Proxmox node. I use it to learn networking, Windows identity, SIEM telemetry, detection work, attack simulation, honeypots, malware-analysis isolation, and automation. The goal is not to build many random virtual machines. The goal is to build a small but realistic lab where each network has a clear job, and each path between networks can be explained. ...

2026-05-19 · 1 min · plumy

Fuzin: An FZF Wrapper for Package Managers

About the project I am a chronic distro-hopper. Every time I move between systems, I forget small package-management details: whether a package exists, what it is called on that distro, or which command I used last time. For a while, I solved this with small bash aliases that combined package-manager search commands with fzf. The problem was that I kept changing distros, changing configs, and forgetting to bring those aliases with me. Fuzin is my attempt to make that workflow portable. ...

2026-03-29 · 2 min · plumy