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Python Threat Intel Tool

Fri, 29 May 2026 23:14:34 +0100

Let’s do it again but in Python! - 29/05/26

If you’ve scrolled slightly down on this list of blog posts you’ll see that this is almost a direct mirror of the project that I completed in December but with a shift of language. The first application was created using Javascript with Electron and whilst it was a valuable learning experience which helped me with my dissertation research artefact, I felt that it was not as beneficial as getting more practice with python. So late at night a few days ago I made the decision that I would recreate it using python and really do my best to work through any hiccups that appeared. When first looking up a GUI that I could use for the development of this tool I clicked one of the top links that appeared which was PySimpleGUI. As described on their site, “it is a wrapper for tkinter (and other GUI libraries) that transforms the GUI SDK into a simpler, more compact architecture while still providing detailed customisation” which fit the requirements for my project.

A Month and a Bit

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:30:01 +0000

Little Update - 11/02/2026

So… It’s been a little over a month since I wrote anything for the site which isn’t initially what I had planned for the content here as I wanted it to be a bit more maintained than that but hey ho. To give a little update, I spent a lot of January doing not very much, I had a lot of social events going on with friends at the weekends. It honestly felt like I was doing the opposite of a dry January and trying to cram all my parties for the whole year into one month. This also coincided with another block of writing that I had to do for my uni dissertation and so I didn’t really have the mental strength to do even more writing after that. However now that I am a little ahead of schedule again, I wanted to take the time to write some more in relation to what I’m working on, thinking and cool things that I’ve been doing, it’ll be pretty short and sweet.

Happy New Year

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:29:49 +0000

New Year, Same me for the most part - 05/01/26

It’s that time again, but a first for the site. 2025 has come to a close and 2026 is here, promising the same stuff as 2025 but I’m slightly older. As I’m still in recovery mode from New Year’s and Christmas, I’m going to hold off on doing anything that requires too much brain power for the next couple of weeks and instead talk about the plans and goals that I have for the year ahead. To start, let’s reflect on 2025 for a brief moment. This was the year that the majority of my university graduate apprenticeship took place in and meant that I spent a lot of time working on that and learning/re-learning topics from when I was in uni 6 years ago. I also had my first full year working within Cybersecurity and decided to take some of my learning and personal development more seriously. And in 2026, this goal is not really going to change a massive amount, and I want to highlight my 4 main goals that I am looking to achieve by the end of the year.

A Basic Threat Intel App

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:36:17 +0000

Electron more like “god-i-hate-JavaScript-tron” - 20/12/25

I was looking at projects that I could do that I haven’t tried in the past and looked for something that could provide me value in my work but also a new learning opportunity. The idea that I settled on was to create a threat intelligence application that I can input file information or IP addresses into, and it would use external APIs to gather the information for and display within the application. Recently I saw some videos about electron apps and thought that surely this was something that could be used to make an app like this.

A Longer Winded Introduction

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:57:08 +0000

A longer winded introduction - 13/12/25

Hi, I’m Jack and I work as a cyber security analyst within the NHS.

Today was the first day that I decided to start something that I had wanted to do for a while. Not neccessarily “start a blog” but more have a way of documenting what I’m doing to learn more about the field that I work and have a personal interest in, Cybersecurity. I’ll use this first post as an introduction to how I ended up in my role and the stops that I made along the way.