Balsa / Forrest Fuqua
Content and links checked 13 October 2026.

ARTWORK
Crow, by Angga Tantama. Original artwork and artist mark preserved.
Artist: https://anggatantama.artstation.com/projects
Image supplied through Forrest's existing public website repository:
https://github.com/cyberbalsa/balsa.info/blob/main/angga-tantama-crow-final.jpg
Scrolling background: a generated cybernetic rooftop environment using the crow
artwork as a visual reference. The original crow artwork is unchanged.
Avatar: https://github.com/cyberbalsa
Artwork remains the property of its artist; no new license is claimed.

PROJECTS
Profile: https://github.com/cyberbalsa
Refer to each project’s README for contributors and licensing.

Featured project descriptions are based on their public READMEs:
https://github.com/cyberbalsa/SCRAM
https://github.com/cyberbalsa/voipmodem (derived from AonCyberLabs/D-Modem)
https://moltshit.com/
https://github.com/cyberbalsa/retroweather (built on netbymatt/ws4kp)
https://github.com/cyberbalsa/internet-tally
https://github.com/cyberbalsa/moltcat
https://github.com/cyberbalsa/spacescience

Project card artwork:
Moltshit.com logo: https://moltshit.com/static/logo.svg (original SVG).
voipmodem illustration: generated for this site in a C64 pixel-art style.
SCRAM illustration: original SVG drawing of a virtual machine swarm.

SODA Machine (Shell on Demand Appliance):
https://github.com/cyberbalsa/soda-machine
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/exhibitors/index__q_page%3D6.html
DEF CON 30 walkthrough by Alex Chaveriat (video thumbnail used on the card):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69zcwISo3Y
DEF CON 31 video by DEFCONConference, with DualD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmW6lMCEaJc

HatChan description and photograph from Forrest’s project page:
https://hackaday.io/project/166643-hatchan
LED animation code: https://github.com/cyberbalsa/HatChanAnimations

Retro Weather and Space Science screenshots are from their repositories.
Space Science is hosted at /spacescience/ from commit
9766fa67e5b8abdd022f4af900fa6437a26d15a7, with local modules and assets.
Gameplay is unchanged; upstream analytics are disabled in this hosted copy.
Source, credits, and licenses: /spacescience/credits.txt
Complete source download: /spacescience/source.tar.gz

BIOGRAPHY AND COMMUNITY
Current role, supplied by Forrest: Pentester at Hurricane Labs.
https://www.hurricanelabs.com/
Discord username, supplied by Forrest: Balsa.
The RIT profile documents previous work:
https://www.rit.edu/computing/directory/fffics-forrest-fuqua
https://cp.tc/organization/structure/
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/User:JRWR
https://bsidesroc.com/assets/archive/2021/about/
https://github.com/DEFCONMeshNet/DEFCONMeshNet
The BSidesROC coordinator role is from its 2021 archive. PCGamingWiki server
administration is described as past work in Forrest's own user page.

TYPE
Space Grotesk by Florian Karsten and IBM Plex Mono by IBM.
Self-hosted Google Fonts distributions under the SIL Open Font License.
License texts: assets/space-grotesk-license.txt and assets/ibm-plex-mono-license.txt

The site’s own code uses local assets and no analytics. Cloudflare may inject
scripts at the edge; those remain subject to the existing Content Security Policy.
Space Science saves progress and scores in browser localStorage.

STATS
Chart.js 4.5.1 by the Chart.js contributors, MIT license.
https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js
Self-hosted bundle and license: assets/vendor/.
Munin graphs are generated by the server's existing Munin installation.