Hello 👋

My name is Mike, or you can just call me shellsharks. You can learn more about me here.

I have points-of-presence in a lot of places. If you’d like to contact me, I’d suggest doing so via the Fediverse or through e-mail. Everywhere else I have listed below. Come say hi! I’m a friendly enough chap. 😄

• Email: mike@shellsharks.com
• Mastodon: @shellsharks@shellsharks.social
• Bluesky: @shellsharks.com
• LinkedIn: Michael Sass (I check this very infrequently)
• Matrix: @shellsharks:infosec.exchange
• N Nostr: @shellsharks@shellsharks.com (npub122gmsek4hrjyw08xj62d2qq04xvfqshvqlxs37w6nn67ea3kxrtsf2022j)
• Threads: @mk3s
• XMPP: shellsharks@xmpp.earth

Here’s some other stuff you might wanna know before reaching out…

• You can make sure you’re really communicating with me by verifying the account.
• I won’t necessarily respond right away. Most of the time I’m chronically online and can/will respond creepily fast. In other cases I take extended hiatuses and you might not hear from me for a while.
• Get to know me! You can check out my interests, what I’m up to now, why I do what I do here, or read through some of my more personal musings.
• Most things I have to say on the Internet are published here, on the site. This includes quite a bit of things that I might originally post on social media.
• I write about a lot of different things, in a lot of formats. Though the search feature isn’t perfect, it’s a decent way to find specific things you might be looking for on the site. For everything else, you just have to do a little spelunking.
• Scroll through my ~weekly collection of web-things I am finding, exploring and learning about.
• Don’t want to say hi but want to keep current on what I’m writing about here? I have a lot of feeds you can subscribe to.
• For professional inquiries, you can view my resume or read through some of my relevant infosec-related writing.
• I don't do guest posts on this site. So don’t ask. If you have an interesting article that you’d like to share then by all means send it over. I’d love to read it! I may even share it on my linklog or my newsletter, Scrolls.
• If you’ve mentioned me, my site or a specific post on your own site, let me know so I can add it to my mentions page. Also feel free to use this stying preference when citing my site or referring to me, shellsharks.
• In the VA/DC area and want to meet up? Send me a message and who knows! Maybe I’m free for such a thing.
• Bug hunters should go here.
• If you have a cool 88x31 button, let me know about it! I could add you to my friends wall. Here’s my button if you’d like to add it to your own site.
• Maybe it’s the millenial in me talking, but I really don't like to talk on the phone and I hate when people ring my doorbell.

This is a Hello Page. 👋