writing
The Democratization of Bad Writing
I'm looking at you, Kindle Unlimited.
dispatch
Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Headset
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
tech
Building a Telegram Bot for Homelab Management
...as soon as I finish shaving this yak.
life
What Anger Does When You Let It Live Too Long
Somebody smarter than me probably has a quote about this sort of thing.
morality
When Neutrality Becomes Evasion
Is evil something we are, or something we allow?
cybersecurity
A Decade of Homelab Chaos: From a Single Plex Droplet to Docker Swarm on Orange Pis
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."
cybersecurity
Deploying an OpenCTI OSINT Stack for Cybersecurity Research
Updated 1/29/26 following issues discovered with the original deployment/guide.
blog
On “Fat Generals,” Rank, and the Comfort of Performative Toughness
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
dispatch
Please Hold, We’re Experiencing a Full Moon
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