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Thanks for visiting. Here, you will find articles on software development, infosec, AI/ML, DNS, and data engineering. I enjoy taking things apart until I can understand them and explain them to others. This is not a tutorial site, and I dislike making pointless software projects for portfolio work, so be prepared for longer explorations into building useful stuff.

My background is deeply entrenched in the software industry (Novell, Altiris, Symantec, BlueCat, and my own consulting business), having spent my early years on the road as an IT consultant/architect for roughly 150 enterprise customers. Later on, I moved to full-time software development.

As you may have already ascertained from the images on this site, I treat AI as unreliable tool (I often refer to it as "the drunk intern"). I find it excels at simulating good work, but only if you don't look closely at it, and aren't an expert in the field it is emulating. Many companies are in for a rude awakening when they find out their AI initiatives were wildly under-planned or thoughtlessly implemented.

Because I strongly suspect that cloud-provided AI will eventually become too expensive for the average user, I put significant effort into running LLM and diffusion models on my local hardware, optimizing for token consumption efficiency and improved accuracy to develop good long-term habits for continued usage.