There’s an old phrase people like to trot out when they talk about responsibility: heavy is the head that wears the crown. Dispatch doesn’t come with a crown. It comes with a headset, a chair that never quite adjusts right, and a bank of screens that never stop
...as soon as I finish shaving this yak.
Somebody smarter than me probably has a quote about this sort of thing.
Is evil something we are, or something we allow?
How It Started: Pure Geekery Let me be honest upfront - there was no grand plan. No architecture diagrams sketched on napkins. No business case or carefully considered ROI calculations. This entire thing started because I heard about Plex and thought "that sounds cool, I wanna try that."
Updated 1/29/26 following issues discovered with the original deployment/guide.
It’s becoming painfully obvious that a lot of people — including some I served with — don’t actually understand how the military and its rank structure are supposed to work. That probably shouldn’t surprise me as much as it does, but here we are. I never expected to feel
No, this isn’t a post about werewolves—though if you’ve ever worked emergency services during a full moon, you’ve probably heard the joke more than once. Usually followed by a long sigh and someone checking the call queue. The idea that people lose their self-control under a