Infrastructure
Patch Tuesday Broke the Counter and Then Broke Windows 11 24H2
This month Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday shipped fixes for 1,411 vulnerabilities. A record. Again. Records are being set so frequently now that the security press has had to invent adjectives for …
September's Windows Update Fixed 966 Things and Broke the Other Things
Microsoft shipped the largest Patch Tuesday in the history of the company last week. 966 vulnerabilities fixed in a single release. 105 of them critical. Two actively-exploited zero-days. That is not …
I Gave a Local AI Agent Root on My Homelab Because the Newsletters Told Me To
Every security newsletter I read this summer has contained the same sentence, slightly reworded, like they all share one ghostwriter: “AI agents are increasingly being used to automate …
I Switched Distro Distros Twice This Summer and Landed Somewhere Better Than My Arch Setup
There are people who switch Linux distros for philosophical reasons. There are people who switch for stability. There are people who switch because their employer ships them a fleet of laptops …
How I Accidentally DDoSed Myself With a Toaster
You know how people say “what’s the worst that could happen?” I’m here to tell you. The worst that could happen is your toaster DDoSing your entire home network on a Tuesday …
My Smart Fridge Tried to Sell My Data and I Had to Pull the Plug (Literally)
I made a mistake. I bought a smart fridge.
In my defense, it was on sale, and it had a little screen on it that showed the weather. I am, apparently, the exact demographic for this kind of …
I Automated My Morning Coffee and Now Im an Engineer of Leisure
I automated my coffee maker. Not because I’m lazy (I am), but because I wanted to see if I could trigger a coffee brew via an MQTT message. The answer is yes. The follow-up question is …
My Backup Strategy Is a External Drive and a Prayer
I keep meaning to set up a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy. I’ve read the blog posts. I’ve watched the talks. I know what I should do. I have a whole Notion page about it.
The Notion page is …
I Built a CDN for My House and I Have No Regrets
It started innocently enough. I wanted to load a photo of my cat from my phone without waiting a whole 0.3 seconds.
Three months, fourteen configuration files, and one existential crisis later, I had …
My Homelab Is Now Configuration as Therapy
I installed Kubernetes in my house. Not because I needed it. Because I was sad.
Therapy is $200 an hour. A three-node homelab cluster is $800 once and it distracts you from your problems for years. Do …
I Rewired My Entire House and Only Cried Three Times
My girlfriend asked me to hang a picture. One picture. A simple task that any reasonable person would complete in approximately 11 minutes.
Three hours later I had ripped out all the coax cable from …