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Latest — 10 Aug 2026

A Product in Spring, a Line Item in Summer

I never got comfortable running Claude Code sessions inside Anthropic's cloud. The prompts and the context were already going over the wire, and handing over full copies of the repository, the build artifacts, and whatever secrets a session touches felt like paying twice for the same trip. So

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Nothing Broke, So Nothing Got Fixed

I removed PAI from my machine and did not think about it again. Weeks later I went looking for the Telegram assistant I had built on top of it and found the systemd unit disabled and inactive. I had not noticed it was gone. Building custom software got cheap. Noticing

If I See It, I Think About It

Summer's an odd time for spring cleaning, but that's where I've landed anyway. Newsletter subscriptions I don't open. Sources in my news-feed I skim past more out of guilt than interest. And a Claude Code status line from a project I

Reading About It Won't Build It.

My daughters do martial arts with me. We train in class together; we practice forms at home. You can read every judo textbook ever printed and watch every tutorial on YouTube. The throw will not be there. The throw develops on the mat: doing it, being thrown, repeating until your

Secured the Access. Trust Is a Separate Question.

A few weeks ago I argued that the right response to AI-powered offense is the same thing it's always been: follow the data, apply foundational controls, and stop looking for a clever AI-specific answer to what is fundamentally a hygiene problem. Access control. Least privilege. System

My Watch Later Playlist Was Out of Control. I Fixed It With Open Tools and a Local LLM.

I have a habit. I scroll through YouTube's home page a few times a week, and when something catches my eye, I add it to Watch Later. The algorithm knows what it's doing; the content is generally good, and the videos I'm adding are

The Offense Has Better Tools. Your Defense Shouldn't Change.

I was on a panel at the Global Cybersecurity Initiative conference in Chicago. AI-powered offense came up during and kept coming up in every networking break. This is the post I wrote on the back of it to condense and capture the essence of those conversations.

Putting the Personal in Personal Software, Again

I built a media server and an Android app for it. Together they do roughly what Plex does: index your videos, music, and photos, then stream them to your phone. I called the server portal and the app portal-app. They're both on GitHub now, MIT licensed, free

If You're Thinking About Who to Lay Off Thanks to AI, You're Thinking About AI Wrong

Every major technology shift of the last fifty years has produced the same split. Companies that used the new capability to build new things compounded their advantage. Companies that used it to protect what already existed paid for it for decades. 💭We are in one of those moments. Too many

Putting the "Personal" in "Personal Software"

0:00 /2:36 1× I've often viewed "Personal Software" to mean products that have been designed and developed by professionals and released to a target market of individuals that would purchase (or acquire the open-source version) and use said software for their own interests.