Thoughts & Ramblings Servers, circuits, and arguments that have to hold up.

Topics

Everything published here is filed under exactly one of these.

Privacy 4

Threat surfaces, security assessments, digital rights, and anti-surveillance.

  1. Age verification is a supply-chain problem
  2. Treating your own PII as an attack surface
  3. What encrypted email actually buys you
  4. Running OSINT on yourself

Homelab 4

Proxmox, self-hosted media and file storage, and the networking underneath.

  1. Pi-hole as a parenting tool
  2. Home Assistant as the household nervous system
  3. Digitizing the shelves
  4. Proxmox and Nextcloud, the foundation

Electronics 2

Arduino, Raspberry Pi, LoRa, and whatever is currently on the bench.

  1. The electronics behind motion-sensing Halloween decorations
  2. Raspberry Pis in a K–5 classroom

Engineering 13

Development workflows, AI tooling, and the craft of shipping.

  1. Where I landed on Claude Code
  2. Upgrading Laravel 11 to 13
  3. Codifying a team's process into agent instructions
  4. I'm not sold on AI developer workflows
  5. What PHP 8.4 changes about writing classes
  6. TDD and the cost of a late answer
  7. Arch on a 2014 MacBook Pro
  8. The PHP 8.3 features I'll actually use
  9. Upgrading MySQL 5.7 to 8.0
  10. Gherkin is a conversation, not a test suite
  11. Internet Explorer is finally retired
  12. The payment package I keep wishing existed
  13. What PHP 8.0 changes for Laravel developers

Leadership 2

Consulting, leading teams, and how decisions actually get made.

  1. Growing a team while shipping a platform
  2. Seniority is a bridge, not a level

Personal 3

Year-end reflections, hobbies, and the non-technical half of the tinkering.

  1. Finding out I'm good company
  2. Beginning again
  3. A year of small projects