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434 talks, podcasts, and demos I picked for the Bee’s Knees, in one vertical feed. Security, AI, engineering, and life, shuffled every visit. Scroll and the next one plays.

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#195 A Better Web Is Possible

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2026 (35 issues )

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List all 35 issues from 2026
  1. #256 2025 Recap
  2. #257 The Legion of Doom
  3. #258 Social Filesystem
  4. #259 The Browser is the Sandbox
  5. #260 The Rise of Agent Social Networks
  6. #261 New Year New Gear
  7. #262 The AI Vampire
  8. #263 Take the Shot
  9. #264 The Intelligence Premium
  10. #265 Why Your High IQ is Making You Stupid
  11. #266 My Grandfather's Cat
  12. #267 Optimize for the sun
  13. #268 Some Things Just Take Time
  14. #269 Navigating the Matrix
  15. #270 Impeccable
  16. #271 You Should Know
  17. #272 Thrive in Obscurity
  18. #273 The Dark Wizard
  19. #274 Bodega Cats
  20. #275 Trying Not to Try
  21. #276 Complexity Has to Live Somewhere
  22. #277 The AI Paradox
  23. #278 To Be Of Use
  24. #279 The Certainty Trap
  25. #280 The Untrainable
  26. #281 Blessed are the Curators
  27. #282 What the F*ck Happened to Nerds
  28. #283 The End of Reading Is Here
  29. #284 Control the Ideas, Not the Code
  30. #285 The End of an Era
  31. #286 How Will You Measure Your Life
  32. #287 Thank Pirates for Saving Culture
  33. #288 Stop Playing Someone Else's Game
  34. #289 Pace the Frontier
  35. #290 Fear Builds the Future

2025 (51 issues )

List all 51 issues from 2025
  1. #205 Join or die
  2. #206 AI Crash Course
  3. #207 Brain Rot and One Man Armies
  4. #208 Nobody Cares
  5. #209 New Space
  6. #210 We Are Destroying Software
  7. #211 Stop Working So Hard
  8. #212 Vibe Coding
  9. #213 Agency > Intelligence
  10. #214 Pressing Buttons
  11. #215 Prompt Your Way To Personal Growth
  12. #216 The Hacker Always Wins
  13. #217 High Agency and the Beginner's Mind
  14. #218 AI 2027 & The End Of Children
  15. #219 Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
  16. #220 The Post-Developer Era
  17. #221 Underdoing the Competition
  18. #222 How to Move Fast
  19. #223 Career Dreamer
  20. #224 Happiest Country on Earth
  21. #225 The Way of Code
  22. #226 Mastery vs. Management
  23. #227 Developers, Developers, Developers.
  24. #228 Surf the Front Edge of the Wave
  25. #229 Software Is Changing (Again)
  26. #230 Agentic Coding
  27. #231 I Don't Use Arch Btw
  28. #232 Flounder Mode
  29. #233 No Days Off
  30. #234 High Taste Tester
  31. #235 Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
  32. #236 You Can Just Do Things
  33. #237 Different Kinds of Smart
  34. #238 AI and God
  35. #239 The No List
  36. #240 Anti-Complexity
  37. #241 You Need To Be Bored
  38. #242 AI Agent
  39. #243 Two Things Can Be True
  40. #244 Life is Poker, Not Chess
  41. #245 Frame of Preference
  42. #246 Just Talk To It
  43. #247 You Are How You Act
  44. #248 Medicine 3.0
  45. #249 Scope Creep
  46. #250 The Mountain Is You
  47. #251 Runnin' Down a Dream
  48. #252 Cheesy, Spicy, Crunchy, Saucy
  49. #253 Princeton not prison
  50. #254 The Fundamentals
  51. #255 How to Crush Your 2026 Goals

2024 (51 issues )

List all 51 issues from 2024
  1. #154 Pipe Dreams
  2. #155 Adversarial Machine Learning
  3. #156 Hack Your Life using AI
  4. #157 LLM: Full Stack Bootcamp & Web Attacks
  5. #158 Is it possible to have privacy in 2024?
  6. #159 Using Data Science to win Bug Bounty
  7. #160 Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream
  8. #161 Your Security Program Is Sh*t
  9. #162 Go Go Bug Bounty Gadgets
  10. #163 Learn to build, then learn to break
  11. #164 Craftsmanship is timeless
  12. #165 AppSec is fine
  13. #166 Mastery: Languages, Burp Suite, and APIs
  14. #167 The internet is ours
  15. #168 They Want Your Data? EFF That.
  16. #169 Excellent Advice for Living
  17. #170 No Web Without Women
  18. #171 The Power of Recon
  19. #172 The Worst Website In The Entire World
  20. #173 Where Are The Builders?
  21. #174 Dominate with LLMs: The Insider Playbook
  22. #175 Search is dead — long live curation
  23. #176 Experts vs. Imitators
  24. #177 Mastering the Balance Point
  25. #178 Slow Down To Achieve More
  26. #179 Gen AI: Too much spend, too little benefit?
  27. #180 Fighting bots is fighting humans
  28. #181 What the Dying Teach the Living
  29. #182 The Great Recalibration
  30. #183 Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons
  31. #184 Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
  32. #185 Mis/Disinformation in 2024
  33. #186 Calling All Hackers
  34. #187 Hacker Mode
  35. #188 You Are The Future
  36. #189 Do it because you can’t not.
  37. #190 Whatever You Think Your Limits Are, You’re Wrong
  38. #191 It's More Fun To Be Competent
  39. #192 AI Algorithms Encode Human Bias
  40. #193 Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck
  41. #194 How The Internet You Loved Died
  42. #195 A Better Web Is Possible
  43. #196 How To Make $100k Bug Hunting in 2025
  44. #197 Winning doesn’t always feel like winning
  45. #198 Do Hard Things
  46. #199 Security Footguns
  47. #200 A Career Ending Mistake
  48. #201 Egoless Engineering
  49. #202 A Bias to Action
  50. #203 How To Live an Epic Life
  51. #204 Make Change That Lasts

2023 (52 issues )

List all 52 issues from 2023
  1. #102 Running a Mastodon server, Reverse Prompt Engineering, and 2022 reviews
  2. #103 2022 CVE data review and bypass firewalls with of-CORs
  3. #104 2022 High-Profile Breaches & 2023 Security Recommendations
  4. #105 Mastering Broken Access Control and An Ethical Hacker's Guide
  5. #106 Fearless CORS, JavaScript Analysis, and Subdomain Takeovers
  6. #107 The Anti-Recon Recon Club, Till REcollapse, and Privacy Guides.
  7. #108 Bug Bounty Hunter Mindset, Android Malware Analysis course, and the Power of CSS injection
  8. #109 Find Linux Kernel bugs and Escape, How to Bug Bounty in 2023, Server-side prototype pollution
  9. #110 Nuclei Foundation Series, OWASP needs to evolve, and Share the Spotlight
  10. #111 Roadmap to Pentester success, and how to explain a layoff
  11. #112 NahamSec quit recon, Top Web3 developer mistakes, and a Docker clinic
  12. #113 How to Hack: A Step-by-Step Journey, acropalypse, and 25 years of curl
  13. #114 How to Lose a Pentester in 10 days, Badsecrets, and Account Takeover in OpenAI
  14. #115 AI models become a threat to hackers, 2023 Web Hacking Roadmap, and why DNS always breaks the internet
  15. #116 Creating with Git, CodeQL zero to hero, and Websocket are a pain
  16. #117 Procmon for macOS, Attacking LLM, and MalDev Academy
  17. #118 Easiest beginner bugs, the Anatomy of Autonomy, and BrokenSesame
  18. #119 Deep Dive OSINT and Finding XSS in a Million Websites
  19. #120 Don’t be the best. Be the only.
  20. #121 IIS Auth Bypass, Securing AI, and making 100k in 2 months
  21. #122 STÖK is back, WTF is information disclosure, and a $1MM bounty
  22. #123 100 Bug Bounty rules and Burp Suite Pro tips & tricks talk v2
  23. #124 Scraping Kit and the Benefits of Creating in Public
  24. #125 When you lie for a living, AI dark ages, and AppSecSchool
  25. #126 NahamCon2023, Networking Fundamentals, and Pioneering The Bug Bounty Platform
  26. #127 Authentication vulnerabilities, Hacking Google Cloud, and Wordlists
  27. #128 The Rise of the AI Engineer
  28. #129 I miss the old internet
  29. #130 New JavaScript analysis tools, and DEFCON advice
  30. #131 The Art of Deception
  31. #132 The key to succeed in bug bounty
  32. #133 How to Study Bug Bounty Hunting
  33. #134 Smashing the State Machine
  34. #135 The A.I. Dilemma
  35. #136 The Prompt Injection Primer for Engineers
  36. #137 Mining Massive Datasets
  37. #138 From 0 to $100k in one year of bug bounty
  38. #139 Challenges and Benefits of the Bug Bounty Ecosystem
  39. #140 A new recon source: DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar
  40. #141 There’s work and there’s your life’s work
  41. #142 Hacking Full Time
  42. #143 The hacker’s guide to securing your organization
  43. #144 Change is inevitable
  44. #145 Using Discord Bots for OSINT Investigations
  45. #146 What needs to stay human?
  46. #147 Take up space
  47. #148 The OG Bug Bounty King
  48. #149 Hacking is a survival skill
  49. #150 A Journey to Mastery
  50. #151 It’s later than you think
  51. #152 Never feed a beast you don't want to grow
  52. #153 How to Make 2024 The Best Year of Your Life

2022 (51 issues )

List all 51 issues from 2022
  1. #51 Happy New Year
  2. #52 Tools & Craft
  3. #53 Can't Hurt Me
  4. #54 Calling Bullshit
  5. #55 Nightingale
  6. #56 When Hip-Hop Was Young
  7. #57 Saved You One Click
  8. #58 Eyes on the future
  9. #59 Stay curious
  10. #60 Start with Why
  11. #61 Remember the Pac-Man rule
  12. #62 Valuable lessons
  13. #63 The Power of Now
  14. #64 Ego is the enemy
  15. #65 Nahomies
  16. #66 How to Take Over the World
  17. #67 The more you know
  18. #68 Blessed
  19. #69 I am. All of us.
  20. #70 Anti-fragile
  21. #71 First Times
  22. #72 Learning Blockchain, Delegating, running Docker without Docker Desktop
  23. #73 Best new infosec projects, how to add value, web hacking summer school
  24. #74 Emulating Reality, Linking Your Thinking, and Data Engineers
  25. #75 InfoSec: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  26. #76 Millions of secrets exposed, focus rituals, become a Nmap pro
  27. #77 Virtual Sticker Swap, Bot Bounty, and Mid-Year Reflection & Planning
  28. #78 Dirty dancing, Reversing Malware, and Dorking on Steroids
  29. #79 Mediocre security engineers and Empathy as a Service
  30. #80 Most common smart contract vulnerabilities, practical deep learning course, and ProjectDiscovery’s Best Kept Secrets
  31. #81 Self-Learning Reverse Engineering in 2022, Hacker Summer Camp, and Interstitial Journaling
  32. #82 Must-watch talks at DEFCON, how to become an expert, and how to ask and get a yes
  33. #83 How to prepare for a tech talk, IDORs and UUIDs, and Web Hacker’s Weapons
  34. #84 Let's Hack GraphQL, A ‘Master Class’ in Bug Bounty, and How to Be Happy
  35. #85 Three JavaScript Security Legends & Full-time bug bounty vs Salaried position
  36. #86 Mental Hacking, Fast-Foodification, and Firefox OOB to RCE
  37. #87 How to turn security research into profit, How a teenager hacked Uber, and Creating a CTF challenge
  38. #88 The Age of Universal XSS, and One Takeover to Rule Them All
  39. #89 Never dupe again, best bugs people have found, and hacking Google
  40. #90 Taking control of your time, RCE via GitHub import, and the origin of XSS
  41. #91 Live Hacking Event tips, the ultimate Nuclei guide, and a unique subdomain enumeration method
  42. #92 Why web tech is like this, Chrome browser exploitation, and hacker healthcare
  43. #93 Supercharge your hacking, web app checklist, and community
  44. #94 XSS Hunter is being deprecated, what sucks about recon, and DevOps is bullshit
  45. #95 What is a server, hiring resources, and a Twitter refugee’s guide to Mastodon
  46. #96 How to build a cloud hacking lab, the return of NahamSec, and remediation archeology
  47. #97 Email Graffiti, The anatomy of a MP4 file, and Learning lockpicking while blind, divergent, and more
  48. #98 Car vulnerabilities, hacking on a plane, and AI inception
  49. #99 Ethical hacking in 15 hours, the secret of bug bounty automation, and exploring prompt injection attacks
  50. #100 2022 OSCP study guide, command-line data-wrangling, and offsec tools
  51. #101 Read the Bleeping RFC, Meth to Netflix, and Speedrunning Web3 Bug Hunts

2021 (50 issues )

List all 50 issues from 2021
  1. #1 “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.” ― Marcus Aurelius
  2. #2 "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." ― Oscar Wilde
  3. #3 “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare
  4. #4 “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
  5. #5 "We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." ― Marshall McLuhan
  6. #6 “Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.” ― Roy T. Bennett
  7. #7 “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” ― Danielle LaPorte
  8. #8 “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
  9. #9 "We cannot retrofit privacy" — Sarah Harvey
  10. #10 “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — Proverb
  11. #11 “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
  12. #12 “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
  13. #13 “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
  14. #14 "Don't think or judge, just listen." ― Sarah Dessen
  15. #15 Protect Linux server from hackers, the power of being a misfit, and bee facts
  16. #16 Helping India, lifting each other up, and How To Start Bug Bounty
  17. #17 GitHub policy change, zines, and staying healthy
  18. #18 Spring, Bugs, and the Crowd
  19. #19 Be Stubborn, Invitations, and How to Create Luck
  20. #20 Low Hanging Fruit and Peaches
  21. #21 Marriage, Systems, and Milestones
  22. #22 Meritocracy, Methodology, and Managing
  23. #23 Grateful, curious, and cautious
  24. #24 Heroes, good vibes, and cache money
  25. #25 Open redirects, experience, and being okay
  26. #26 DOM XSS, voicemail ATO, and 10K4ILF
  27. #27 Recon master, ransomwhere, and AWS
  28. #28 Hunt for jobs like a hacker
  29. #29 The last dance
  30. #30 The Beekeeper's Bible
  31. #31 DEFCON and friends
  32. #32 Introductions and infographics
  33. #33 Live life
  34. #34 Queen bee
  35. #35 Just do it
  36. #36 Eat the frog
  37. #37 Make it rain
  38. #38 The Art of Not Giving a F*ck
  39. #39 Green lights
  40. #40 Extreme Ownership
  41. #41 Light The Night
  42. #42 Man's search for meaning
  43. #43 Magic
  44. #44 Hyper scheduling
  45. #45 The Alchemist
  46. #46 Melliferous
  47. #47 Parkinson’s Law
  48. #48 Duplicates
  49. #49 Cyber Santa & Giveaways
  50. #50 The internet runs on free open-source software

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