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Technical writing on sovereign AI, local infrastructure, cybersecurity, and the engineering behind Project Kaizen.

June 9, 2026

Using AI to Build Better Health Habits

AI is not a doctor, coach, or dietitian. Used well, it can be the support layer that keeps your goals, logs, trends, and care-team questions organized between appointments.

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June 8, 2026

What if every system shared the same view of the world?

Intelligence is transient. Context is persistent. One MCP connector that injects the same context into every cloud AI at once — the thinking, the use case, and why a shared context layer has to be built defensively.

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May 20, 2026

From Local Git Repos to Universal AI Context

Local Git remains the source of truth. Read-only ingest packs fresh context. OAuth MCP exposes it safely to AI clients. No stale chat memory. No drifting Markdown skills.

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April 2, 2026

The Weird Guy

On being called weird for building things, sharing publicly, and seeing what's coming before the room catches up. The weird ones were never wrong. They were just early.

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March 31, 2026

The Internet Said It Was Unfixable. We Fixed It Anyway.

Roku Live TV on Emby + Apple Silicon was broken. Every forum said give up. We found the root cause, built a wrapper-based fix, tested it end-to-end, and open sourced it.

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March 22, 2026

Fortified — Hardening a Self-Hosted Mail Server on Debian 13

Building production-grade security around a 19-container Mailcow Docker stack on peered infrastructure. Custom firewall, kernel hardening, automated auditing, off-box monitoring. From zero to a 94/100 automated security audit score.

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March 3, 2026

The Diamond in the Rough: Apple Silicon and the Future of AI Infrastructure

Is Apple sitting on the most important AI infrastructure play that nobody's talking about? Four Mac Studios. 2TB unified memory. 600 watts. The math is changing.

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February 16, 2026

Agent Citadel: The Local-First AI Architecture That Runs My Home

Most people use large language models to generate text. I built one that locks doors, arms alarms, adjusts thermostats, and reasons about who just pulled into the driveway.

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January 8, 2026

I Built a Private AI Platform in My Closet. Here's What 28 Years of Tinkering Taught Me.

In 1998, I co-founded a cybersecurity company called INTRAC.NET. Nearly three decades later, the same question drives me: how does every layer of a system talk to every other layer? The answer now fits in a rack in my closet.

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