It’s been a while since I did something to get a Dopamine kick(like winning a hackathon or do something to get external validation).I took a break from Development & started learning Smart-Contract-Auditing because I got too much pumped up after reading samczsun ‘s blogs( read once,you’ll get hyped up too..those are fire) .I just finished Secureum’s RACE-9 test and I got 1.7 / 8 Points. LOL .I recently participated in Paradigm CTF ‘22 too & couldn’t understand anything. again ..LOL.O..And my 2nd semester’s results just came out and I failed in Maths..not feeling too much sad for that for some reason.
And now Imposter Syndrome is hitting hard,feeling a bit sad. And I’m writing this while listening to some song which just randomly came up & I don’t even know what the lyrics mean,can’t understand the pronounciation(song: Eppur si muove) & I have to catch a train in 45 minutes.
After taking a few Ls I think it’s time to rethink a bit & revise a new Plan to Attack. So here’s the new Roadmap I’ll be following :
I came across this blog by Sleepy & this blog by cmitchel , so I’ll just combine these and polish my auditing skills and try to submit a report on C4 by next week.
I have already finished Ethernaut & solved most of the Damn-Vulnerable-DeFi challenges & read some Audit reports so I’ll finish Damn-Vulnerable-DeFi challenges.
I’ll re-read the Mastering Ethereum’s Chapter 9: 'Smart Contract Security' and Chapter 13: 'The Ethereum Virtual Machine' because I think that I lack clarity.
I’ll finish Secureum’s material .& try to finish all of the Previous RACEs.
(and the song that randomly came up on the playlist now is Awaking the Centuries ,not bad)
I’ll try to finish SWC Registry as-well.
I’ll learn a bit more about proxy patterns.
Need to dive deeper into testing with Foundry.
AND I WILL FINISH PARADIGM CTF ‘21 & ‘22 CHALLENGES(as much as possible)
So..this time I hope I’ll get it right & won’t procrastinate (as much humanely possible).
And I think I just missed this train, no worries..will catch the next one :)