I Got Tired of Forgetting. So I Built PwnLog.
Nimesh Thakur created PwnLog to help bug hunters capture their findings quickly and efficiently. The tool allows users to log notes, timestamps, and screenshots with a simple hotkey, minimizing disruption during hacking sessions. PwnLog stores all data locally, ensuring user privacy and ease of access for future reporting.
- ▪PwnLog captures findings with a hotkey, allowing users to log notes and screenshots quickly.
- ▪All entries are automatically organized into a markdown journal and a structured JSON file.
- ▪The tool is built with Python and is designed to operate without interrupting the user's workflow.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/toklas495/i-got-tired-of-forgetting-so-i-built-pwnlog-ggp |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 11:29:32 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-24T11:37:32.397Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-24T11:37:32.397Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Jobc1Xtx4dC6 · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3625136) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Nimesh Thakur Posted on May 24 I Got Tired of Forgetting. So I Built PwnLog. #python #opensource #security #cybersecurity Every bug hunter knows the feeling. You're deep in a session. You find something weird — an IDOR, a sketchy endpoint, a parameter that behaves differently than it should. You think "I'll note this later." You never do. Three days later you're staring at a blank report. No notes. No screenshots. No proof. Just a vague memory of something that felt important.
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