diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+.env
+terraform/
+
+# Byte-compiled Python files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+# Local config / secrets
+.env
+config.yaml
+secrets.json
+# Editor & OS files
+*.swp
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
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+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks
+    rev: v8.27.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: gitleaks
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Define image name
+IMAGE_NAME="pandoc-report-generator"
+PDF_MAKE_DIR="./pdf_make" # Path to your Dockerfile and generate_reports.sh
+LABS_DIR="./labs"         # Path to your labs directory
+
+echo "--- Debug Info ---"
+echo "Current Working Directory: $(pwd)"
+echo "Image Name (variable): '$IMAGE_NAME'"
+echo "PDF Make Directory (variable): '$PDF_MAKE_DIR'"
+echo "Labs Directory (variable): '$LABS_DIR'"
+echo "Absolute Labs Mount Path: '$(pwd)/$LABS_DIR'"
+echo "--------------------"
+
+echo "--- Building Docker image: $IMAGE_NAME ---"
+# Build the Docker image from the pdf_make directory
+docker build -t "$IMAGE_NAME" "$PDF_MAKE_DIR"
+BUILD_STATUS=$?
+echo "Build command exited with status: $BUILD_STATUS"
+
+if [ $BUILD_STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "ERROR: Docker image build failed. Exiting."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "--- Running report generation inside Docker container ---"
+# This single-line docker run command is the most robust way to avoid shell parsing issues.
+# It explicitly sets the entrypoint and mounts the /labs directory.
+docker run --rm --entrypoint /bin/sh -v "$(pwd)/$LABS_DIR:/labs" "$IMAGE_NAME" /app/generate_reports.sh
+
+RUN_STATUS=$?
+echo "Run command exited with status: $RUN_STATUS"
+
+if [ $RUN_STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "ERROR: Report generation failed inside Docker container."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "--- All operations completed successfully. ---"
+
+# --- New Step: Verify Output on Host ---
+echo "--- Verifying generated PDFs on host ---"
+find "$LABS_DIR" -type f -name "LAB-REPORT.pdf"
+
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "PDFs should now be available in your '$LABS_DIR' directory."
+else
+    echo "No PDFs found or an error occurred during verification."
+fi
diff --git a/labs/0. reading/README.md b/labs/0. reading/README.md
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+- [ ] [Debugging Zine](https://jvns.ca/debugging-zine.pdf)
diff --git a/labs/lab-1/LAB-REPORT.md b/labs/lab-1/LAB-REPORT.md
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+# Lab 1
+## Tasks
+
+- [x] 1. **Connect**
+```
+I ran the commands from VirtualBox
+```
+- [x] 2. **Explore**
+```
+I ran the sample commands
+```
+- [x] 3. **Play**
+  - [x] grep
+    ```sh
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ vim extra/folders/example.txt 
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ grep -i "Error" syslog
+    this is an error i am an error!
+    yeah I am another error!
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ grep -ir "Error" syslog
+    this is an error i am an error!
+    yeah I am another error!
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ ls
+    extra  syslog
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ ls
+    extra  syslog
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ grep -r "error" syslog
+    this is an error i am an error!
+    yeah I am another error!
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ ls
+    extra  syslog
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ cat extra/folders/example.txt 
+    error I am a file
+    hello world
+    i am not an
+    but this is an error!
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ grep -r "error" .
+    ./extra/folders/example.txt:error I am a file
+    ./extra/folders/example.txt:but this is an error!
+    ./syslog:this is an error i am an error!
+    ./syslog:yeah I am another error!
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ grep -rc "error" .
+    ./extra/folders/example.txt:2
+    ./syslog:2
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ grep -ra "error" .
+    ./extra/folders/example.txt:error I am a file
+    ./extra/folders/example.txt:but this is an error!
+    ./syslog:this is an error i am an error!
+    ./syslog:yeah I am another error!
+    vboxuser@ubel:~/lab-1$ grep -rb "error" .
+    ./extra/folders/example.txt:0:error I am a file
+    ./extra/folders/example.txt:48:but this is an error!
+    ./syslog:0:this is an error i am an error!
+    ./syslog:47:yeah I am another error!
+    ```
+  - [x] tail
+    Displays the end of the file -- if you add -f (for follow),
+    you can display the contents indefinitely. It is fun to snoop
+    on bots who are trying to log into my server, and this command is useful
+    for that.
+    ```sh
+     sudo tail -f /var/log/auth.log
+    ```
+
+  - [x] man
+    Better than Google when you have no internet connection
+    or access to chatGPT. Holds an exhaustive (I assume) list of
+    available commands.
+    ```sh
+    man grep
+    man man
+    ```
+
+  - [x] history
+    Shows command history. I would usually use zsh and, if I needed to run a
+    command, I would just press the "up" arrow. That is very tedious if
+    I need to run something that I did > 5 commands ago. This is very useful
+    if I needed to run an obscure command. Or maybe to just figure out what I did.
+    ```sh
+    history
+    history | grep "tail"
+    man history
+    ```
+
+  - [x] df
+    Never used this command before. I randomly decided to check this on both MacOS 
+    (my computer is always running out of space for some reason or other) 
+    as well as on one of my linux boxes.
+
+    There are a lot of differences. Feels like more similarities than differences,
+    but a lot of the important columns are the same. It's also a good command
+    for keeping an eye on the mounted volumes on my linux box.
+
+    Also, since the two commands are so different, I don't think I'll ever be able
+    to remember them!
+
+    Stands for "disk free".
+    ```sh (on Mac)
+    df (display free disk space)
+    df -h
+    ```
+    ```sh (on VM Ubuntu)
+    df (report file system space usage)
+    df -h
+    ```
+  - [x] du
+    Displays file usage. Should use this to investigate where all the space
+    on my local Mac is going.
+
+    ```sh
+    man du
+    du -hS
+    du -s * | sort -nr > $HOME/user_space_report.txt
+    ```
+  - [x] ps
+    Showed me a list of running processes. By default it only shows you
+    the processes that were started/were run personally by you on a terminal. 
+    
+    Also: the man for `ps` under the Ubuntu box mentioned you can use 
+      UNIX (?), BSD (default for mac os?), and GNU (what I assume are the usual default commands) options for ps, provided you use the flags in a specific way.
+    
+    Once in a blue moon I have to use pkill some orphaned program, and without fail 
+    I have to google how to every time. Maybe I can just use the pids from here instead?
+    ```sh (on Mac)
+    man ps
+    ps -A
+    ```
+    ```sh (on Linux)
+    man ps
+    ```
+  - [x] top
+    Looks similar to ps, but you get a whole dashboard. I could
+    see how you could use this to monitor programs. This is the
+    text version of what I'd use the activity monitor for.
+    ```sh
+    top
+    ```
+  - [x] htop
+    Top, but **fancier**! It's keyboard navigable AND mouse navigable,
+    and comes with a bunch of colors out of the box. Very cool!
+    ```sh
+    htop
+    ```
+  - [x] exit
+    Exits you out of the current terminal session.
+
+extra reading
+- [x] [The Linux Command Line](http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php)
+  WIP still reading this
+- [x] [Grep mini-zine](https://wizardzines.com/comics/grep/)
+- [x] [reddit thread: bsd v gnu](https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/vzmfye/differences_between_bsd_and_gnu_utilities/)
+    * Most of this goes completely over my head. But this was interesting to look at.
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+# Lab 2
+
+## Tasks
+- [x] 1. Define Security Groups
+  From [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-security-groups.html).
+  Security groups control inbound & outbound networking traffic 
+  to your resource (in this case AWS EC2). The properties you can
+  restrict by for each security group rule are destination, 
+  port range, & protocol. Security-wise it's best if a resource is 
+  completely locked down (no inbound/outbound traffic allowed at all),
+  but since we live in the real world there are a lot of network rules
+  to consider in order to allow your projects to do real work.
+- [x] 2. Discover your public ip
+  * Recorded
+- [x] 3. Create a security group
+- [x] 4. Attach to ec2
+- [x] 5. Verify access
+- [x] 6. Terraform import
+  ```tf
+  **main.tf**
+  import {
+    id = /instance-id/
+    to = aws_instances.my_first_linux
+  }
+  ```
+  ```sh
+  terraform init
+  terraform plan -generate-config-out=generated.tf
+  # manually fixed the generated.tf file
+  terraform apply
+  ```
+
+## Reflection
+![image](./lab-2.jpg)
+I built a security group for my newly created ec2 instance (my-first-linux)
+and updated the ec2 so that it only used the newly created security group.
+This security group's only networking rule is to allow SSH connections
+coming from my home's IP address.
+
+Challenges: I glanced over the AWS CLI -- I've used it maybe a handful
+of times in my life (as a dev), and it's always made me a wee bit nervous.
+
+I didn't attempt the CLI commands and instead used terraform to import
+the whole setup. This way I can store the current state of the resources 
+on a git repo. This is helpful to me to remember what I just did. 
+(At this point I've already had some experience with terraform so
+I'm somewhat confident about using it to deploy/tear down resources.)
+
+## Meta
+* ~/Downloads/labs/aws.txt
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+# Lab 3
+
+## Prep
+- [x] Gitea set up
+- [x] MFA set up
+- [x] Add git ignore
+- [x] Secrets/Token Management
+    - [x] Consider secret-scanning
+      - [x] Added git-leaks on pre-commit hook
+- [x] Create & Connect to a Git*** reposiotry
+  - [x] https://git.dropbear-minnow.ts.net/
+- [ ] Modify and make a second commit
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+# My First Repo
diff --git a/labs/lab-3/hello.py b/labs/lab-3/hello.py
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+print('Hello, world!')
+
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diff --git a/pdf_make/Dockerfile b/pdf_make/Dockerfile
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+# pdf_make/Dockerfile
+FROM pandoc/latex:2.19
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# IMPORTANT: Copy your script into the container
+COPY generate_reports.sh /app/generate_reports.sh
+RUN chmod +x /app/generate_reports.sh
diff --git a/pdf_make/generate_reports.sh b/pdf_make/generate_reports.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "Starting report generation..."
+
+# Navigate to the /labs directory within the container
+# This is crucial because we're mounting the host's /labs into the container's /labs
+cd /labs || { echo "Error: /labs directory not found in container. Exiting."; exit 1; }
+
+# Find all directories prefixed with "lab-"
+find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "lab-*" | while read lab_dir; do
+    echo "Processing directory: $lab_dir"
+    markdown_file="$lab_dir/LAB-REPORT.md"
+    pdf_file="$lab_dir/LAB-REPORT.pdf"
+
+    # Check if LAB-REPORT.md exists
+    if [ -f "$markdown_file" ]; then
+        echo "Found $markdown_file"
+        # Check if LAB-REPORT.pdf does not exist
+        if [ ! -f "$pdf_file" ]; then
+            echo "LAB-REPORT.pdf not found. Generating PDF from markdown..."
+            # Generate PDF using pandoc
+            # Make sure 'pandoc' command is available in the image, which it is for pandoc/latex
+            image_dir="$lab_dir"
+            pandoc "$markdown_file" -s -o "$pdf_file" --pdf-engine=pdflatex --resource-path "$image_dir"
+
+            if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+                echo "Successfully generated $pdf_file"
+            else
+                echo "Error generating $pdf_file"
+            fi
+        else
+            echo "LAB-REPORT.pdf already exists. Skipping generation."
+        fi
+    else
+        echo "LAB-REPORT.md not found in $lab_dir. Skipping."
+    fi
+done
+
+echo "Report generation complete."