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211 posts · PowerShell, SCCM, Home Assistant, AI operators, and the tools I build along the way.
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The Shopping List That Sorts Itself
Pull into the parking lot and your phone buzzes: your shopping list, rewritten in aisle order. You typed nothing new. The list you dictated all week reorganizes the moment it ma…
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Three New Public Builds: Treelens, Back Channel, and Riddlebox
I keep a lot of my real infrastructure work private for obvious reasons. But the public projects matter too. They are the easiest way to show the shape of the work without dragg…
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I Built My Own AI Agent. It Lives in My Notes.
Most AI agents live in someone else’s product. Mine lives in my own Obsidian vault, on my own machine, reading my own work. Here’s the pattern, why it works, and where it doesn’t.
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I’m Not a Coder. I Ship Features Anyway.
I shipped five features across three internal apps this week. I’m a Director of IT Infrastructure. I haven’t hand-written code in months. Here’s the workflow that actually does …
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Three Weeks to Three Hours: Building the Internal Tool Nobody Asked For
Our VP of compliance raved about an internal tool at the steering committee. She doesn’t do that. The numbers were the easy headline. The harder part of the story is what the to…
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Before the Seed Prompt: Why the First 10 Minutes of an AI Workshop Are Where You Lose the Room
Lessons from a private dry-run of an AI training session: the technical content was solid. The first 10 minutes still lost the room. The fix isn’t the slide deck. It’s the seque…
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The Meta Moment — When the AI Helped Ship the Work
Part 3 is the operational and security lens: how persistent AI workflows evolve from useful automation into a governed system with guardrails, least privilege, approval gates, a…
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Teaching It to Be Useful — From Chatbot to Coworker
Part 2 covers how I turned OpenClaw from a setup project into an operational IT coworker: Graph + ServiceDesk integrations, heartbeat triage, 5 AM briefings, and automation work…
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The Birth — How I Used AI to Build Its Own Home
I had OpenClaw bootstrap itself from Windows into WSL2, then configure Node, systemd, networking, browser relay, and memory migration. This practical walkthrough shows how an AI…
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Introducing TTXForge: AI-Powered Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises
Cybersecurity tabletop exercises are supposed to prepare teams for real incidents. Too often, they turn into awkward role-play, stale scenarios, or box-checking exercises that n…
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🧠 HTTP Header Order Test: Can You Drag, Drop, and Win?
Can you drag and drop HTTP headers into the correct order? 🧠 Test your knowledge in this fun, browser-based quiz for developers and sysadmins.
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🧠 Interactive Memory Heap Visualizer with SVG & Allocation Strategies
Visualize memory heap allocations and garbage collection in real-time using SVGs with this advanced interactive simulator. Perfect for trainers, engineers, and enthusiasts.
