Hi! I'm demize and this is my blog. You might already know me, but if you're
here, you might want an introduction.
I'm a trans woman from Toronto who works in tech and sometimes writes about the
things she does, professionally or personally.
I do security incident response and internal tooling work professionally. I use
far more Python at work than I ever expected, and outside of work I like to use
other languages: I've been known to use Rust and Typescript occasionally, and
I've done a little bit with Zig and Ruby and enjoy them both. I also run my own
Mastodon instance, which is the primary social media I use now (Discord aside).
Other than tech, I also stream on Twitch sometimes (less often than I'd like)
and go on entirely too long walks around the city, sometimes taking photos. You
might see posts here about those topics too, sometimes.
I don't use Arch Linux, and despite the URL of this blog, I hold no affiliation
with Microsoft either.
You might notice I always write my name entirely in lowercase. This is the only
correct way to write my name :)
Imagine, for a minute, that you're an incident response analyst and you've just
finished a memory dump on a machine you suspect was infected with malware. This
is a laptop that's assigned to someone who works remotely from (you have to
assume) the goddamn moon, because their network connection is both incredibly
slow and even more unreliable. You've tried to copy the memory dump off using
your EDR solution. It keeps failing because of the awful network connection.
That's the situation I found myself in when I wrote this script.