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FYI a couple PDSes are down (morel, oyster). Investigating

Goodbye, Goodbye, Hello To build the future, you must destroy the present. TTI is leaving Teachable and Discord. Here's why and how.

🚨TTI IS LEAVING DISCORD AND TEACHABLE🚨

Full explanation here: taggart-tech.com/tti-migration/

The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

Just published a new minor version of The Homelab Almanac. I migrated to mdbook for creation of the website version, and some improved pandocery for the PDF/EPUB. As always, new versions of the book are available for free to those who have already purchased.

Sale extended through Friday! You still have a chance to get 50% off The Homelab Almanac with code HOMELABIN2026. If you're considering a homelab for the new year, you'll want this book by your side for the journey.

The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

By popular request, yes there's a Black Friday sale on The Homelab Almanac! Use code HOMELABIN2026 to get 50% off the "best guide to setting up a homelab" from now until the end of November!

The book comes as a PDF, EPUB, and offline searchable website for your convenience.

Caddy: A Hacker's Intro YouTube video by The Taggart Institute

ICYMI, our gentle introduction to #Caddy last month, including how to use it as a low-rent red team reverse proxy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-J...

WTFBins WTFBins: benign applications that exhibit suspicious behavior

Some new #WTFBins for your entertainment/edification! We now have 50 total in the catalogue!

wtfbins.wtf

I haven't said this in a minute, so just in case there was any question: @taggartinstitute.org is, and will always be, a safe space for LGBTQ+ learners. We have a zero tolerance policy for hate of any kind. Whoever you are, however you identify, you are most welcome. Except Nazis, of course.

Caddy: A Hacker's Intro A gentle introduction to the Caddy webserver for multiple use cases. This session was done live for members of the TTI Discord! Come join us: https://discord.gg/taggartinstitute Code for this demo: https://codeberg.org/The-Taggart-Institute/caddy-intro 0:00 Intro 0:41 What is Caddy? 1:55 Fastest

Another @taggartinstitute.org Live Session in the books! This one was an introduction to Caddy, the best little webserver around. We go through Caddy basics, and even show a way to use it as a red team/phishing proxy!

TTI is thrilled to be contributing copies of The Homelab Almanac as raffle prizes!

A long-needed update to the Poetry setup has been released for Python for Defenders! If you haven't checked out the course, it's a topic-specific guide to using Python and Jupyter Notebooks for common cyber defense tasks.

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The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

Just received the nicest message from a book purchaser.

They wanted to build a homelab as part of starting school. They began with LLMs as a guide, which was disastrous. But after picking up The Homelab Almanac, they're making progress and going through the struggle.

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The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

A reminder that you can get 50% off the new version of The Homelab Almanac with code OMGVERSIONTHREE until the end of June!

I'm really happy with the new version, and I think you will be too.

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Announcing The Homelab Almanac: Version 3.0 The best guide to homelabs just got a lot better—and bigger.

Hello, friends! I'm thrilled to announce that The Homelab Almanac, v3.0 has officially launched! There is a **ton** of new stuff in this version, including:

- Proper DNS
- PKI
- Automatic signed certificates
- New secrets management
- Proxmox clustering
- Cloud integration

Intro to Regular Expressions The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

Fearing regular expressions is a choice—one you don't have to keep making! Knock out this quick course over the weekend and come into next week with the POWER OF ARCANE KNOWLEDGE 💪🪄

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Vim For Everyone Text Empowered

Go take our Vim course and discover that :x will save and quit in one move—among other tricks.

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WTFBins WTFBins: benign applications that exhibit suspicious behavior

Eagle-eyed visitors to https://wtfbins.wtf may notice that the links to the repo and to submit new WTFBins have relocated! Yes, that's right: WTFBins now lives on Codeberg!

In fact, I have migrated *all* my repos to Codeberg.

Looks like we're back!

The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

Hey! We're aware of some DNS issues with the site. This is likely introduced by Teachable after some changes on their end. We've confirmed our settings are correct. Meanwhile, taggarttech.teachable.com still works.

Tell you a secret about red team #cybersecurity work:

Almost everyone wants to pretend to be a red teamer; almost nobody had the willingness to put in the real work to become one.

Last day of the sale! Don't miss your chance to get the best homelab guide around for just $10!

Still going on! $10 for a comprehensive guide to getting your lab up and running.

Whoo! First confirmed Bluesky purchase! Thank you, Ken!

The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

Thinking about some new server hardware? Get it up and running with the best homelab guide around! "The Homelab Almanac" is 50% off through Cyber Monday with code HOLIDAYHOMELAB.

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I'm moved to say this explicitly:

@taggartinstitute.org is a safe place for our trans friends. We are an inclusive, welcoming, supportive learning community—with an ironclad CoC. We jump *out* at the first sign of bigotry and forcibly remove it from our space.

I can at least promise you that.

The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

New Course: Automated Detection with Sigma

Two courses in one week?!? We're so excited to share with you a new course that Faculty member @hgb.crowstrike.zip has been working hard on for about a year now!

taggartinstitute.org/p/detection-...

This is a hot topic and we think you'll find that it useful in both lab and enterprise environments.
Go start learning!

You'll learn how to read and write Sigma rules, deploy a Splunk SIEM. convert your rules to the Splunk Processing Language, and build the infrastructure to automatically convert new Sigma rules to saved and scheduled searches.

Automated Detection with Sigma is an introduction to using and deploying Sigma rules in a Detection as Code design.

The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

New Course: Automated Detection with Sigma

Two courses in one week?!? We're so excited to share with you a new course that Faculty member @hgb.crowstrike.zip has been working hard on for about a year now!

taggartinstitute.org/p/detection-...