Weekly Dev Log 2026-W06

🗓️ This Week

• Made a little more progress in the SwiftUI tutorial🦾
• Started the journey of building my future portfolio site✈️ First, I created the project files and set up a repository on GitHub. I also started reserching React Router v7 by reading its documentation. I'm moving forward little by little🔥
• Completed the ContAInment room from the AI Security Learning Path on TryHackMe this week🤖

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💡 Thoughts on the ContAInment Room

This room was a hands-on investigation exercise set in a scenario where a company had suffered a security breach, resulting in important data being encrypted and used for blackmail. The goal was to investigate the compromised environment and discover the hidden flags🔎

I felt that this room built nicely on the concepts I learned in the previous AI Forensics room. One thing I especially enjoyed was solving the investigation by using a dedicated AI assistant available inside the victim environment🤖

As I worked through the challenge, I had to think carefully about what looked suspicious and follow clues step by step while actively using Linux commands. It also turned out to be a great review of Linux operations and practical investigation workflows🔥

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📱 iOS (SwiftUI)

• Worked through the SwiftUI tutorial and completed Sections 7 and 8: "Create an Algorithm for Badges"

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🌐 Web Development

• Posted my weekly dev log on Dev.to 📝
• Created a new React Router v7 project for my future portfolio site.

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🔐 Security (TryHackMe)

• Completed the ContAInment room (part of the AI Security Learning Path) on TryHackMe.

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💡 Key Takeaways

📱 SwiftUI Learning

Section 8: Calculate and Show Streaks

• Learned how to calculate a daily streak by comparing saved dates with the current day.
• Understood how reversing the array helps process moments from newest to oldest.
• Learned how map and compactMap can transform Moment objects into simple day offsets like [0, 1, 2].
• Understood how Calendar.dateComponents calculates date differences in calendar-based units.
• Learned that multiple moments on the same day should count as a single streak day.
• Realized that the streak variable represents the next expected day offset during the calculation.
• Learned that comparing daysAgo == streak is a simple way to detect consecutive days.
• Understood why using the end of the current day makes streak calculations more stable and predictable.
• Learned that @ViewBuilder is used to build conditional or multiple-view UI structures, while Group is mainly used to organize existing views or share modifiers without affecting layout.
• Understood that VStack creates all child views immediately, whereas LazyVStack generates views only when they become visible on screen.
• Realized that LazyVStack is more suitable for scrollable, data-driven UIs with many or heavy views because it improves memory efficiency and performance.

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🌐 Web Development Learning

• React Router v7 Framework Mode is similar to Remix, so my Remix experience will still be useful.
• root.tsx, routes.ts, and route files work together to render each page.

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🔐 TryHackMe Learning

ContAInment

• Identified useful indicators from attacker notes and used them to recover encrypted files.
• Practiced DFIR-style investigation by following clues across logs, archives, and extracted data.
• Used AI-assisted forensic tools to analyze encoded flag candidates and identify the correct flag.
• Improved my understanding of how AI systems themselves can become targets in modern cyberattacks.

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🚀 Next Week

• Complete the badge algorithm in the SwiftUI tutorial.
• Continue posting small articles on Dev.to and start creating Web UI designs in Figma.
• Continue working on the AI Security Learning Path.

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🌈 Goals for This Year

📱 iOS (SwiftUI)

• Build a solid foundation in SwiftUI and create at least one iOS app.

🌐 Web Development

• Continue posting learning logs on Dev.to and eventually turn them into a portfolio site using React Router v7.

🔐 Security (TryHackMe)

• Continue learning cybersecurity on TryHackMe.