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Johnny Five from Short Circuit rendered as an Obama 'Hope' campaign poster, captioned NO DISASSEMBLE
Building

My Clanker Setup

A mate messaged me this week asking whether I'd ever written up my clanker setup — which harness I run, which models, what…

05 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
Personal

Continued Monitoring of the Situation

Week two of an AI-powered House Finch nest monitor: four model biases, a Wyze cam back from the dead, and a full pipeline rewrite before the eggs hatch.…

03 May 2026 · 14 min read
Three pale-blue speckled House Finch eggs nestled in a cup of dried grass on a sunroom bookshelf
Personal

"Monitoring the Situation" - The Internet of Birbs

Two pale-blue speckled eggs on the sunroom bookshelf turned into three cameras, an Unraid NAS, two AI models, and a journal that writes itself every morning. None of it had to be useful — it just had to be possible. Because joy.…

29 Apr 2026 · 7 min read
Security

For the Love of the Game: DistrictCon's Year 1 Junkyard

Notes from judging DistrictCon's Junkyard Year 1 — a Pwn2Own-style exploit contest targeting end-of-life devices. Disco balls, DNA sequencers, gym treadmills, and self-propagating game worms. Includes exploit chain diagrams for all eleven talks.…

07 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
Building

#HSC2022 in Pics

A small selection of selfies and pics from #HSC2022. It was a good homecoming.…

21 Aug 2022 · 5 min read
Policy

Iowa launches vulnerability disclosure program for election-related sites

The State of Iowa has partnered with Bugcrowd to launch a vulnerability disclosure program on election infrastructure.…

01 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
Security

WTF is going on with TCP:0?

tl;dr: 0.06% of the publicly-addressable IPv4 space is listening to and responding on TCP Port 0. Why? idk... Note: Never interact…

30 Jul 2020 · 3 min read