My journey continues.

At the end of summer in 2018, I finished my last two courses for my Masters in Cyber Security: Cryptography and Big Data. Soon after, I received my diploma in the mail for a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. This May, I had the pleasure of walking across the stage in the presence of my family to receive my handshake in NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s commencement ceremony.

Throughout my experience, I only occasionally celebrated my personal wins. I often hesitated to share, as there were so many moments when I feared…

A few days ago, my father found a short story that I had written for a school project when I was in the 2nd grade — my mother’s own path to computer science! I asked if I could please share her story, and she encouraged me to write about it.

My mother is a remarkably intelligent woman with a strong sense of integrity and a great sense of humor. No surprise, as she was raised by my incredible grandparents. My grandmother was an ophthalmologist. She performed cataract surgery on many farming families she encountered while biking across China in her…

This is a living document of resources and information, gathered over time from various sources (online & via personal recommendations)

Text Editors
VIM
https://vim-adventures.com/
https://www.openvim.com/
Nano
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/42980/the-beginners-guide-to-nano-the-linux-command-line-text-editor/
Sublime Text
https://www.sublimetext.com/
http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/reference/keyboard_shortcuts_osx.html
Atom
https://atom.io/

Command Line Interface
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line
http://web.mit.edu/mprat/Public/web/Terminus/Web/main.html

PowerShell
http://powershelltutorial.net/

SQL
https://sqlzoo.net/

Github
https://lab.github.com/
https://try.github.io/ (The hands-on tutorial is no longer available)
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-git
https://education.github.com/pack (Student Pack)
https://github.com/msyinmei/buildyourownwebsite/

Gitlab
https://about.gitlab.com/training/

Markdown
https://www.markdowntutorial.com/lesson/1/

HTML
Mozilla: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML

CSS
(Tutorials)
Mozilla Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduction_to_CSS
Mozilla’s Web Literature: https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/activities/intermediate-web-lit/
(Games)
CSS Selector Game: https://flukeout.github.io/
Flexbox Froggy: http://flexboxfroggy.com/
Flexbox Defense: http://www.flexboxdefense.com/
CSS Grid Garden: http://cssgridgarden.com/
(Assessment)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduction_to_CSS/Fundamental_CSS_comprehension

Javascript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-javascript
https://www.learn-js.org/

Web Publishing
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/Publishing_your_website

Web Hosting
https://pages.github.com/
https://www.netlify.com/
https://www.heroku.com/

In-Browser Tools
https://jsfiddle.net/
https://repl.it/
https://thimble.mozilla.org/en-US/
http://jsbin.com/
https://codepen.io/

APIs, Maps & Libraries:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
https://www.mapbox.com/
https://d3js.org/

React
https://reactjs.org/

Vue
https://vuejs.org/

Ember
https://www.emberjs.com/

Python
https://www.learnpython.org/
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python

Code Interview Practice & Resources:
http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/uploads/6/5/2/8/6528028/cracking_the_coding_skills_-_v6.pdf
https://www.hackerrank.com/
https://coderbyte.com/
https://projecteuler.net/
https://www.interviewcake.com/
https://www.interviewbit.com/
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/practice-for-cracking-any-coding-interview/

This is a living document of resources and information, gathered over time from various sources (online & via personal recommendations)

Open Source Tools:
Tails: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/installation/
Signal: https://signal.org/
Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/
Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org/
Tor Project: https://www.torproject.org/

Organizations:
Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/
Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press/

Knowledge & Resources:
No Starch Press: https://nostarch.com/
Cybrary: https://www.cybrary.it/
Packt: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

Online Classes & Tutorials:
Sam Bowne’s classes: https://samsclass.info/
Reverse Engineering: https://www.begin.re/
Metasploit: https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/

Articles & Blogs: Leslie Carhart’s guide on getting into the field: https://tisiphone.net/2015/10/12/starting-an-infosec-career-the-megamix-chapters-1-3/ Daniel Miessler guide to a successful infosec career: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/build-successful-infosec-career/ Tony Robinson Blog of Infosec Materials: https://medium.com/@deusexmachina667/the-big-blog-post-of-information-security-training-materials-ad9572223fcd…

If you’re reading this, you may have heard of the recent Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal (with a complicated timeline of events) and a lot of talk from people deleting (or threatening to delete) their Facebook accounts using the #DeleteFacebook hashtag.

Listen up! Before you go clicking that delete account button on a whim here are three basic things you should consider: 1) If you delete your Facebook account, will you still use Instagram or Whatsapp (both owned by Facebook)? Are you signed into any accounts (such as Spotify or Netflix) through Facebook? 2) Even if you delete your account, your…

I moved to New York City after three spectacular years in Beijing, China. I had never lived in New York before, so settling in was an incredible adventure. I started working at an amazing non-profit called the New American Leaders, and co-founded a support community for friends like me who had returned from living in Beijing called “Beijing Club of New York” (We now have over 900 members!). A few months later, I was elected to the organizing board for the Asian American Journalists Association where I found joy contributing to a community of content creators. Through this community, I…

The phrase “Fake it until you make it” suggests that we can fulfill personal prophecies through imitating confidence until one feels it naturally. Research in psychology has demonstrated that the way we position our bodies can create emotional feedback effects that change our day-to-day experiences, as demonstrated in the Ted Talk by Amy Cuddy.

In response to this finding, many articles on the Internet promote ways to look more important, sound more important and techniques to avoid issuing apologies in the workplace. Don’t do this, don’t do that. …