INSIGHTS FROM THE DIGITAL FRONTIER
The €2,500 Domino Effect: How a Hijacked Perplexity Account Funded AI Coding Agents, Pivoted to GitHub, and Got Unmasked via Offline RAG
Incident Response INC-2026-PX01. A Sunday in Germany with an emptied bank account (-€2,500), a modest student Perplexity account silently upgraded to MAX Annual + Infinite Auto-Refill, an unauthorized OAuth pivot across 47 GitHub repositories, and how a custom offline BM25 RAG engine over 13,071 chunks unmasked the attacker.
71 Days in the Dark: How an 'Innocent' Browser Extension Hooked My Digital Life (and the Antivirus Lie)
Anatomy of a real browser hijacking incident. 71 days of stealth operation, 1,835 Malwarebytes blocks providing false confidence, silent DOM injections, and how my Discord account was turned into a stealth MrBeast scam bot.
Mathematics in Computer Science: The Prompt Illusion and the Wake-up Call of 2026
Why do we grind through matrices, discrete math, and probability at HOU in the age of AI? An answer to student existential dread and waking up from the 'vibe coding' dream.
Out of Bounds, Out of System: The Tragedy of Being an International Student on the Greek Web
When the university expects production-ready code to pass you, but its own enrollment portal denies the existence of the rest of Europe. A comedy of errors in form validation.
Exam Manifesto: C on Paper, Python On The Fly
When your mind becomes an ANSI C compiler and professors interrogate you in Python. The first year at EAP is over and we survived.
Surviving the CHAOS of the EAP Exam Curriculum
How to manage the massive study load for EAP exams without throwing a segmentation fault.
RandeBoo Post-Mortem: How 36% Became V1.0 (and the Triumph of the Aegean Theme)
The final review of EAP Project 07. From the chaos of roles to a C-like SQLite backend, Tkinter SPA routing, and shutting down the server.
Papatzis Spotter V3: When Coursework Hands You the 'Key' to AI-Forensics
How a university assignment error and the Jaccard Similarity algorithm led to the most accurate AI Slop detection engine yet.
The Papatzis Manifesto: Unmasking the Digital Slop
The true story behind the birth of Papatzis Spotter. From a professor's denial to the vaccine against AI Slop.
The 3 Idiots of Computer Science: Which One Are You?
Three friends, three minds, three paths. And a painful truth: the market gives nothing for free to anyone.
Project 07: The Leap of Faith towards Plato's Academy (aka How not to get slaughtered in Tartarus)
A Leap of Faith from over-engineering to the raw reality of Full Stack. Animus Sync, Black Broth, and the illusion of controlling Poseidon's gears.
Week 1: Wurst in the Stew, Monster, and the 36% Oracle
The first week of EAP Project 07. From zero GUI to the chaos of team collaboration.
Junior Dev at 30+: Why your life experience is your hidden Debugger.
You're not late. You're not not enough. A survival guide for the working student fighting time, Imposter Syndrome, and code.
Refactoring AI Slop: The Biggest (Hidden) Teacher for a Desperate Student
When ChatGPT writes code that works but looks like spaghetti, and you have to understand what it did before the professor asks you.
Project Habit Tracker: The Drama, The Developer's Loneliness, and The Trap of Vibe Coding
The complete anatomy of a solo project that started as a group assignment at HOU. From the pain of C to the ease of Vibe Coding and digital garbage.
ANSI C vs Python: Personality Split in GE2
The ultimate recap of the second assignments (PLH10 & PLHPRO). From the nightmare of Bead Sort in C89 to the salvation of Python Dictionaries.
2nd Written Assignment: How Gravity (Bead Sort) Ruined My Christmas
Analysis of the 2nd Written Assignment for PLH10. Bead Sort, arrays, and the futility of trying to code physics without functions.
OSS & Pseudocode: The Big Heist with C
HOU Student: The paradox of learning methodology in Pseudocode for 5 weeks, while the exam is in C. A chronicle of confusion.
Human vs Compiler: How plh10.exe Made Me Write My Own Interpreter
HOU Student & CS: How plh10.exe destroyed my VSCode and why I built a Web Interpreter for Pseudolanguage (without breaking C).
HOU Survival Guide: Panic Management & Infinite Loops
First contact with academic material and the realization that 'Studying' is an abstract class.
Hello World
The first line of code and the beginning of my journey in Computer Science.