Miles

We shipped vanguard last week! We purchased a domain, added registration, added strategyboards, added a homepage, and now have 8 teams relying on it in competition!

I hadn’t been tracking time for the majority of the work spent on this project, but I’ve been working on this with a friend and it’s been going great! We’re getting really close to our 1.0 update, and we’re finishing up a couple of last minute features and bugfixes. Recently, I added the strategyboard. which allows you to plan strategy out on a per match basis.

I’m working on my first project! This is so exciting. I can’t wait to share more updates as I build.

Got a full stack of information from CTFd > flask > my frontend. I modified a CTFd discord webhook plugin to send information to my API endpoint, then the flask server uses websockets to send the new entry to the solve log. The CTFd plugin has a few formatting issues, so that’s what I’m working on next.

Getting started on the backend! First up is parsing info about your CTFd instance from a TOML file and using JS to place that in the HTML. Easy stuff! Using flask for backend. And tailwind css for frontend.
(not a whole lot to see yet!)

Got basic auth working! Now working on basic password storage functions. I haven’t ever done a lot of database stuff so this will be new for me.

Getting started on porting existing vanguard web frontend functionality to Xcode. I just got the Mac mini from a CTF prize today, so I’m still getting the hang of swift/Xcode a little bit. I got login working.