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Thirty years of opinions, accumulated slowly. Unapologetically opinionated. Occasionally wrong, always honest.

The hype is earned because I could argue with it

ai · · 5 min read

The hype is earned because I could argue with it

Who they knew me as

life · · 6 min read

Who they knew me as

Your coding agent, but as an auditor

security · · 6 min read

Your coding agent, but as an auditor

Every human decision is a task that blocks itself

ai · · 6 min read

Every human decision is a task that blocks itself

Triage that fits inside the pull request

security · · 6 min read

Triage that fits inside the pull request

The voice of Hind Rajab

life · · 9 min read

The voice of Hind Rajab

The stupidest possible way to build a K3s cluster

ai · · 8 min read

The stupidest possible way to build a K3s cluster

The security engineer who wanted to be a DJ

life · · 10 min read

The security engineer who wanted to be a DJ

Built to destroy itself

security · · 9 min read

Built to destroy itself

We can't keep doing this

life · · 11 min read

We can't keep doing this

The Rainbow Nation

life · · 10 min read

The Rainbow Nation

Cooked to within an inch of its life

code · · 10 min read

Cooked to within an inch of its life

Surviving SSH on a lossy 4G link

code · · 4 min read

Surviving SSH on a lossy 4G link

The Adventures of Mr. Colin

ai · · 7 min read

The Adventures of Mr. Colin

No barriers

life · · 9 min read

No barriers

Through the looking glass

ai · · 9 min read

Through the looking glass

A few days in Paris

life · · 5 min read

A few days in Paris

They won and changed the subject

life · · 5 min read

They won and changed the subject

The Privacy Layer That Broke launchd

code · · 10 min read

The Privacy Layer That Broke launchd

I watched them leave

life · · 7 min read

I watched them leave

The hoarder's vault

life · · 6 min read

The hoarder's vault

The opportunity cost compression

ai · · 6 min read

The opportunity cost compression

The post I deleted

life · · 6 min read

The post I deleted

The point of writing it down

ai · · 8 min read

The point of writing it down

No feeling is final

life · · 7 min read

No feeling is final

I Wanted OpenClaw to Be the One

ai · · 9 min read

I Wanted OpenClaw to Be the One

I Didn't Want to Give My AI Agent SSH

code · · 7 min read

I Didn't Want to Give My AI Agent SSH

What I Refused to Build

life · · 8 min read

What I Refused to Build

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