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Edition 8 - Dealing with 100,000 horrible pictures for the Damascus Dossier
January 16, 2026
Hi! This newsletter is a bit different, because it will also published as a blog post over at DARC, Jan's company. So whenever it says 'we' just imagine it...
Edition 6 – Using RegEx to catch state-sponsored hackers
January 5, 2026
Hi, Hakan here. This one is going to be straightforward. Both Jan and I are using RegEx quite regularly, so this is a how to: using RegEx to find out more...
Edition 6 – The Curious Case of ChatGPT-share
December 12, 2025
Hi, Hakan here. As a reporter, even if you've got a niche you're working in, with me it's cybersecurity, most of the time you're on the outside looking in....
Edition 5 – Fetching websites from the Wayback Machine
December 1, 2025
Recently I (Hey, this is Hakan!) was working through my all but zero inbox after being out of office for quite a while, when I came across this newsletter...
Edition 4 - Journalism from the command line, part 2
November 27, 2025
Hi! It’s us again! Last week we spoke about command line tools that we like. Today, in part two of this miniseries we want to show how Jan makes the command...
Edition 3 - Journalism from the command line, part 1
November 17, 2025
Today's newsletter shows some command line tools that Jan uses in his day to day work. The idea here is not to claim the sole solution to a problem, but to...
Edition 2 - Using Virustotal to find leaked data
November 10, 2025
Why hello, welcome to the second edition of readwrite, a newsletter about journalism and coding. This week, Hakan is writing. Please email us at...
Edition 1 - the first one is the hardest
November 3, 2025
Hi, This is the first of hopefully many emails we’ll deliver to your inbox. Thanks for signing up! For this week’s edition, Jan took a brief look at OpenAI’s...