[{"content":"WHOAMI I am a Penetration Tester at Scytale based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I spend a lot of time learning and tinkering with technology and security, but that\u0026rsquo;s only one part of who I am.\nOutside of work I enjoy exercising, reading, writing (duh), playing games, attending Church and many other random things.\nWhat I do I work in cybersecurity, with a particular interest in penetration testing and offensive security. I enjoy digging into technical problems, figuring out how things work, and learning something new along the way.\nThis blog This is my personal corner of the internet.\nI write about whatever I find interesting - sometimes technology and cybersecurity, but also theology, philosophy, literature, or just things I have been thinking about.\nThis blog is not meant to be a professional portfolio or an extensiion of my LinkedIn. It is just a place to document things, share what I learn, and put some of the things I am interested in out into the world.\nP.S. For those of you curious about the name of this blog, I wrote a companion article for why I chose Podvig.\n","permalink":"https://podvig.codeberg.page/about/","summary":"\u003ch2 id=\"whoami\"\u003eWHOAMI\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am a \u003cem\u003ePenetration Tester\u003c/em\u003e at \u003ca href=\"https://scytale.ai\"\u003eScytale\u003c/a\u003e based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I spend a lot of time learning and tinkering with technology and security, but that\u0026rsquo;s only one part of who I am.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work I enjoy exercising, reading, writing (duh), playing games, attending Church and many other random things.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"what-i-do\"\u003eWhat I do\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI work in cybersecurity, with a particular interest in penetration testing and offensive security. I enjoy digging into technical problems, figuring out how things work, and learning something new along the way.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"About"},{"content":"What does Podvig mean? Podvig is another one of those Church Slavonic words that do not have an English equivalent. So unsurprisingly, it usually has a much lengthier translation masquerading as the definition. The literal translation would be \u0026ldquo;upward movement\u0026rdquo;, but this is not the actual definition.\nPodvig is a continual striving to surpass your own limits. To come outside of your limits and become the better version of yourself.\nPodvig is a spiritual struggle in an upward direction with God as your goal and indeed as your compass.\nPodvig is sacrificing the old self for the sake of something greater, and in turn gaining a new self - that will eventually become the old self again.\nWhy Podvig I chose Podvig as the name of my blog since it perfectly encapsulates my goal with this blog, and thus more generally with my life. It serves as a reminder to continually move forward, even if I have to struggle, its better to struggle forward.\nTo always be striving at improving myself. Going from old me to new me, over and over again, ad infinitum. This philosophy or way of life was something I intrinsically picked up along the way but didn\u0026rsquo;t have a definition for - until I came across Podvig.\nThus, it was only natural for Podvig to become my new philosophy.\nWhy a Religious Term for a personal blog? Religion is a large part of who I am. I am an Orthodox Christian and as part of my duty in following Christ, I like the reminder of not only struggling forward but also struggling forward towards someting which is good, the Ultimate Good.\nTo continuously deny myself and my selfish desires, for that which is higher than me - God. To always better myself in the eyes of the Lord, to be accounted worthy - although unworthy - of His presence.\nPodvig is UPWARD movement.\n","permalink":"https://podvig.codeberg.page/posts/why-podvig/","summary":"\u003ch2 id=\"what-does-podvig-mean\"\u003eWhat does Podvig mean?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePodvig is another one of those \u003ca href=\"https://orthodoxwiki.org/Church_Slavonic\"\u003eChurch Slavonic\u003c/a\u003e words that do not have an English equivalent. So unsurprisingly, it usually has a much lengthier \u003cem\u003etranslation\u003c/em\u003e masquerading as the definition.\nThe literal translation would be \u0026ldquo;upward movement\u0026rdquo;, but this is not the actual definition.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePodvig is a continual striving to surpass your own limits. To come outside of your limits and become the better version of yourself.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePodvig is a spiritual struggle in an upward direction with God as your goal and indeed as your compass.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Why Podvig"}]