Welcome To The AppSec Augury! (No I Did Not Sell Your Email)

For those of you that didn’t immediately delete this message, thank you! This is Robert from what used to be Security for Developers, Security for All. You can relax, I haven’t given your email to anyone else.

Seriously, I work in security — if I ever do that, something’s wrong.

“Where have you been?” Alive! Just not posting on Substack for . . . reasons that meld into what follows.

As for the obvious questions of “Why the rebrand?” and “Why the new platform?”: I realized a few things between my last post on Substack and this one on my new platform, Beehiiv.

1. Substack is not great for devs, and I say this for one primary reason: The code blocks aren’t great. Zero syntax highlighting, and all of my code was getting scrambled in ways that were not ideal. Since I like to rely on source code examples without having to post code on Github ahead of time, having integrated source code blocks is nice.

2. I also had a tricky time getting Markdown posts onto the platform, so I had to do this weird relay race between Obsidian, Todoist, and Substack. Beehiiv isn’t much of an improvement on this front, but hey, at least I can do all my editing on-site without too much hassle.

3. I was going way, wayyyy too broad with my branding originally, and frankly I also kind of deviated from it. I started posting CTF writeups and doing TryHackMe meta challenges when those weren’t super relevant to developers or the average person. I couldn’t really pick a direction to go.

4. On that note, “Security for Developers, Security for All” is a mouthful. “The AppSec Augury” is roughly half the syllables! And also is a bit better of a descriptor of what I want to do with this newsletter: talk about Application Security and ways of mitigating vulnerabilities before they come up. This also broadens my scope to include things on the offensive side, like CTF writeups.

So, if you’re interested in an AppSec journey, stick around. If not, the unsubscribe button is somewhere in the email for this post.

I plan on posting once a week, so hopefully I’m able to stick to that.

See you around!

Robert