Expanded Thoughts
Field notes, deep dives, and lessons learned. The how-I-think layer, in public.
Articles
Infrastructure, security, and systems thinking, written for curious minds.
When Parental Controls Aren't Enough, You Build Your Own
A teenager who keeps finding loopholes. A self-hosted MDM platform, Android Device Owner enrollment, MQTT telemetry, and what enterprise mobile management actually looks like when you run it yourself.
I've Always Been Figuring Out a System Not Built for Me
From rigging treadmills in sixth grade to running a Proxmox cluster. The tools changed. The instinct didn't. And what AI actually does for someone with a real infrastructure background.
Security scare at home
A commodity credential-stealer hit a family endpoint. Full incident timeline: containment, IR USB build from a clean plane, Google account hijacking via Family Link, and what I'd have done differently.
Home Lab IR SOP v1.0
The incident response standard operating procedure written during a live incident. Phase-based, endpoint-first, with explicit decision gates. Built to be calm under pressure and repeatable under stress.
Defaults & Workarounds
Why "temporary" becomes policy, and how to design it out before it calcifies. From dangling power cords to vendor credentials nobody owns.
Identity-first foundations
Why IAM comes before apps, and how it changes every downstream architecture decision. What shared credentials actually cost, and what it looks like to build the other way.