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  • I ran a security audit on my own home network. It was humbling.

    Aug 16, 2026

  • Building Hermes: a self-hosted AI agent that runs my digital life

    Aug 16, 2026

  • Hybrid identity in a homelab: syncing on-prem AD to Okta and Entra

    Aug 15, 2026

  • Do Wi-Fi deauth attacks still work? I tested it on my own network

    Aug 14, 2026

  • My ISP was quietly hijacking every DNS query in the house

    Aug 10, 2026

  • The Raspberry Pi doing ten jobs on my network

    Aug 10, 2026

  • Running my own media server on hardware nobody wanted

    Aug 6, 2026

  • Every wireless attack I tested on one handheld RF multitool

    Aug 4, 2026

  • A handheld RF research tool, and the day my Faraday box failed the test

    Aug 4, 2026

  • Turning a keychain-sized gadget into a wireless security lab

    Aug 4, 2026

  • What a three-day RF survey of my own airspace turned up

    Aug 4, 2026

  • Leaving Windows for Fedora, and hardening it

    Jul 30, 2026

  • I replaced Google Photos with a NAS I control

    Jul 30, 2026

  • Building a verified Tails USB — an amnesic computer in your pocket

    Jul 28, 2026

  • RAID is not a backup: the day I found my domain controller had none

    Jul 27, 2026

  • The servers running in my house, and why I killed SMS 2FA

    Jul 21, 2026

  • I host my own password manager now

    Jul 21, 2026

  • How I reach every device I own without opening a single port

    Jul 21, 2026

  • Setting up a UniFi network — and driving it from its own API

    Jul 19, 2026

  • Breaking into a deliberately-vulnerable Android app, exercise by exercise

    Jul 16, 2026

  • Post-quantum SSH in my home lab

    Jul 13, 2026

  • A little flight radar for my son, built on a $5 clock

    Jul 9, 2026

  • I built the identity infrastructure a real company runs — in my homelab

    Jun 22, 2026

  • Building my home lab network from scratch

    Jun 18, 2026

  • I built a camera that looks at things and tells you what it sees

    Jun 15, 2026

  • A round smartwatch-style sensor dashboard on an ESP32

    Jun 5, 2026

  • Playing IoT test engineer: evaluating a smart alarm through three iterations

    May 24, 2026

  • The sensor wasn't dead: debugging an ultrasonic alarm on an Arduino

    May 13, 2026

  • Seeing movement through walls with a $10 Wi-Fi chip

    May 12, 2026

  • Turning a stock Samsung into a pocket Linux hacking lab

    Apr 23, 2026

  • The smart bin: a touchless lid, and the small bugs that teach you electronics

    Feb 26, 2026

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