Elf Connect (Hard): Hint Summary: The high score is 50k, but that’s above the maximum amount of points. Try looking into the browser dev tools and for a variable named score. From the hint, we assume that we start at the source of the page. When we look into the HTML for the game pop-up, we …

Anecdote It was January of 2021. It doesn’t get cold where I come from, but this year started off chilly. I remember the countless times I would sit on my computer, open up a VM, and take a sip of hot cocoa. Those were my first memories of CyberStart America: comfort, nostalgia, and warmth. …

Looking Back A lot of things happened in 2023. Just to name a few are: The Rise and (expected) Fall of NFTs. Crypto’s continuous plummet down. Improvements in AI, pioneered by ChatGPT in general chatbot services, MidJourney in generative images, etc. A dozen more Javascript frameworks More …