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Learning Progress Pt.38

Muhamed Maxhuni — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:48:02 +0000

Daily learning part thirty-eight.

I'm back. For the last ten days or so, I've been on a family vacation outside my country. I wasn't able to learn anything new except review some lessons and try out the new TryHackMe Pulse app. Now that I'm back, my schedule isn't going to be the same. I got a job this month because I need funding for Security+. I think I should start studying for Security+ next month.

Anyway, today I started at 17:00. I began by researching cyber projects I could build. I wanted to make one so badly, but I lack knowledge in programming and in cybersecurity defense. After an hour I had to go get some work done. When I came back, I started making an online idea box, inspired by an article I read the other day. I used a little bit of AI to get things done faster. I published the project on GitHub as a live website. Here's the link:

https://4ynow.github.io/idea-box/

If you're too lazy to visit, here's a screenshot.

I wanted to do a math lesson, but it's late and I have work tomorrow. I'm ending today's session at 23:43.

"The easiest person to deceive is one's own self." Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Learning Progress Pt.37

Muhamed Maxhuni — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:28:12 +0000

Daily learning part thirty-seven.

I started today's session at 15:00 with math. I picked the worst thing to start my daily session. It took me literally two hours to finish one lesson, and I didn't even get proficient in any of the mini quizzes.

Then I went to TryHackMe and completed four rooms. I think I am going to start learning for Security+ after I complete my coding courses and projects. I think this is the most realistic thing I can do to get an entry job directly after high school. I probably can pass it on the first try if I dedicate the next six months to it. I know they have discounts only for students, but if I send a request and tell them my situation and that I am in high school I might get an even better discount.

I also modified one of my Python projects. I am probably going to publish it on GitHub later today or tomorrow. It's a port-scanner. I also tried to do something with JavaScript but failed miserably.

Ended today's session at 20:10.

"The secret of success is consistency of purpose." Benjamin Disraeli

Learning Progress Pt.36

Muhamed Maxhuni — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:23:33 +0000

Daily learning part thirty-six.

I started today's session at 16:00. I began by completing some rooms in THM. The main one was an XSS Introduction room that had a lab with six different levels of stored XSS. I also completed some rooms about Windows and Windows CLI.

Then I spent an hour planning some things and some projects that I hopefully will start soon. After that, I completed two CSS sections, CSS Font and CSS Icons.

The last thing I did was complete a quiz (there are quizzes and mini-quizzes in Khan Academy, this was a normal quiz usually given after one or two lessons). I completed my goals for the day and ended today's session at 20:20.

"Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences." Jawaharlal Nehru

Learning Progress Pt.35

Muhamed Maxhuni — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:01:38 +0000

Daily learning part thirty-five.

I started today's session at 15:00. I first started with math, which took me a long time to complete. I am currently learning Algebra 1 on Khan Academy, and it is going very well so far, but today it took me a long time to finish the lesson. That is because I tried to calculate everything in my head and kept failing to reach proficient. I don't know any strategies for mental calculation. I calculate exactly like a middle schooler would.

Then I completed the last few sections in SQL and finally finished the SQL course. Now I only have to learn how to create a database, and after that I am done with SQL, but for now I don't think I am going to learn it.

I also completed CSS Text in the CSS Tutorial. I didn't complete any more sections due to time.

Finally I did one reflected XSS lab and completed some rooms in TryHackMe. I finished today's session at 20:00.

"Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous." Abd El-Kader

Learning Progress Pt.34

Muhamed Maxhuni — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:08:09 +0000

Daily learning part thirty-four.

I started today's session at 18:00. I started with TryHackMe. I spent basically the whole day completing rooms. I completed about 9 rooms and the XSS rooms took me the longest. I still have problems understanding DOM‑based XSS. I paid for Premium yesterday, I don't know why it took me so long to pay the subscription but I finally did. I am planning to spend more time in TryHackMe because I feel like I have let my original goal fade.

Last thing I did was complete a lesson in Khan Academy. I ended today's session at 22:00.

I'm sorry for the bare-bones log, but I am in a hurry.

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow." Doug Firebaugh

Learning Progress Pt.33

Muhamed Maxhuni — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:56:22 +0000

Daily learning part thirty-three.

In the last two days I have been offline. On the first day I had a problem with my computer while trying to install Nvidia files on Linux, and my whole system crashed. I had to save my files and reinstall the OS. The next day I went to help my father move some books from 14:00 to 18:00. I have never worked that hard this year. When I got home I tried to study but nothing would enter my head.

Anyway, I started today's session at 18:00 because I had traveled to my cousin's city. I started with CSS, completing CSS Padding, CSS Height/Width, CSS Box Model, and CSS Outline. I also started CSS Text but didn't finish it due to time. I then moved to SQL where I almost completed the whole tutorial. I completed SQL Union, SQL Union All, SQL Group By, SQL Having, SQL Exists, SQL Any, SQL All, SQL Select Into, SQL Insert Into Select, SQL Case, and SQL Null Functions.

Lastly I completed a quiz and a lesson in Khan Academy and ended the session at 21:55.

"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems." Rene Descartes

Learning Progress Pt.32

Muhamed Maxhuni — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:54:26 +0000

Daily learning part thirty-two.

I started today at 17:00. I started with SQL and completed 10 sections of the SQL tutorial, practicing my skills on runsql.com. Now I have a very small part left and I will probably complete the SQL Tutorial by tomorrow. Then I only have SQL Databases left and I will be done with SQL. I did some research for about an hour on cybersecurity and coding.

Then I did CSS Backgrounds, CSS Borders, and CSS Margins. CSS is going to take way longer because it has smaller sections and way more material, but overall it is really easy.

After that I started a lesson in Khan Academy. It had 6 videos, 4 mini quizzes, and 1 lesson review page. The mini quizzes took a lot of time, but I got proficient in every one of them.

I then did research on XSS vulnerabilities, which was also the last thing I did for today. I ended today's session at 21:55.

"I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." Isaac Newton

Learning Progress Pt.31

Muhamed Maxhuni — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:29:11 +0000

Daily learning part thirty-one.

Today I started at 16:00 with SQL. I completed SQL Null Values, SQL Update, SQL Delete, SQL Select Top, SQL Aggregate Functions, SQL Min(), SQL Max(), SQL Count, SQL Sum() and SQL Avg(). The easiest language I have ever learnt. Then I moved on to math. I completed one lesson in Khan Academy and took two practice quizzes where I got proficient in both again.

I then started my cybersecurity grind, which was just me finding and reading different articles on XSS. I am not using PortSwigger for learning anymore, for reasons I mentioned in my last blog.

Lastly I tried to do an HTML, CSS and JS project, but I failed miserably. I ended today's session at 21:00 due to personal stuff.

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." Dale Carnegie

Learning Progress Pt.30

Muhamed Maxhuni — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:41:25 +0000

Daily learning part thirty.

I started today's session at 16:00. I first started with the SQL Tutorial on W3Schools. I completed SQL Introduction, SQL Syntax, SQL SELECT, SQL SELECT Distinct, SQL WHERE, SQL ORDER BY, SQL AND, SQL OR, SQL NOT, and SQL INSERT INTO. I also watched a lot of videos about SQL. I forgot to mention that my laptop randomly shut down mid‑session while I was just watching a video, it was plugged in with a full battery, and without even touching it, it shut down and wouldn’t power on. I reinserted the battery and still nothing happened. After a while I came back to check on it, hit the power button, and it powered on. I don’t know what happened because I just bought it about two months ago, but anyway, let’s get back to talking about the session.

Then I took a lesson in Khan Academy Algebra and took the two practice quizzes, getting proficient on both of them. After this I moved on to XSS. I read different articles before going to PortSwigger. I completed one lab there and decided to leave PortSwigger for now. The reason is that at first I saw people recommending PortSwigger for beginners, but PortSwigger is not for beginners at all. The Web Academy only explains the vulnerabilities in theory with very little practice explaining, then it throws a bunch of different labs at you. At first one lab gives you a simple alert(), and the next expects a beginner to understand HTML context, attribute breaking, and event handlers without ever explaining them. They don’t teach anything they test. They assume you already know the underlying concepts and then throw you into different scenarios like these.

Anyways, after XSS I started CSS on W3Schools. I completed CSS Introduction, CSS Syntax, CSS Selectors, CSS How To, CSS Comments, CSS Errors, and finally CSS Comments (some of these were already things I knew about, but I followed through and practiced the lessons). I ended today’s session at 21:50.

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Napoleon Hill

Learning Progress Pt.29

Muhamed Maxhuni — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:08:36 +0000

Daily learning part twenty-nine.

I started today's session at 16:00. I began with HTML, where I completed my last sections of the course: HTML Web APIs, HTML Geolocation, HTML Drag and Drop, HTML Web Storage, HTML Web Workers, and HTML SSE. Now that I have completed HTML, I'm going to focus on CSS and SQL.

After that, I took the Unit 3 test in Khan Academy and got 9 out of 10 questions right. Then I moved to XSS. I researched for a while, then went to PortSwigger and completed three labs one for stored XSS, one for reflected XSS, and one for DOM‑based XSS.

Afterwards, I decided to make a color flipper with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The only hard part was figuring out how to generate a random color in JavaScript. I didn't publish it on GitHub; I don't think it's worthy enough to be there. But I did take some screenshots.

I ended today's session at 21:30.

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” Maya Angelou

Learning Progress Pt.28

Muhamed Maxhuni — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:37:24 +0000

Daily Learning part twenty-eight.

I started today's session at 14:30. I began with HTML Graphics, which had two mini‑sections: HTML Canvas and HTML SVG. After finishing and practicing these, I completed HTML Media, HTML Video, HTML Audio, HTML Plug-ins, and HTML YouTube. Then I moved to JavaScript, where I spent time reviewing the JS syntax reference. I am planning to start JS projects like a Background Color Flipper, a TODO List Adder, a Stop Watch, and hopefully a Tic‑Tac‑Toe game with HTML, CSS, and JS. For the moment I need to learn CSS, complete HTML, and learn SQL (for SQLi). I finished my first session at 17:00.

I came back at 19:30 and decided to make a calculator with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I haven't learned CSS yet I only know very basic stuff—so for the CSS part I followed a tutorial. It took the whole session to complete. It took a lot of time, but it was pretty easy, to be honest. For the calculations I just used eval(). I finished the project in about two hours. At 22:00 I published my project on GitHub. Here is the link:

https://github.com/4ynow/Calclator

I ended today's session at 22:25.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass

Learning Progress Pt.27

Muhamed Maxhuni — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:22:24 +0000

Daily Learning part twenty-seven.

I started today's session at 16:00. I began with the HTML session, where I practiced HTML for about an hour and then did six mini‑sections: HTML Forms, HTML Form Attributes, HTML Form Elements, HTML Input Types, HTML Input Attributes, and Input Form Attributes. This took me about an hour and a half to two hours.

Then I moved to XSS vulnerabilities. I completed 80% of the PortSwigger course on XSS but didn't do any labs. I also researched XSS and read everything I saw that had the potential not to be a waste of time.

Then I did research on many different subjects related to my career, which are not important to mention.

Lastly, I completed a lesson in Khan Academy. I ended today's session at 21:20.

“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.” Voltaire