Vol. MMXXVI No. 82
Field reports from cloud-security engineering, AI experiments, and a homelab that keeps getting bigger.
Ai·10 min read·
Extracting benchmarks into a standalone package was the punchline. The setup was a month of governance, skills, security, and pipeline discipline that made the extraction possible in an afternoon.
Open Source·6 min read·
A static-analysis tool that grades any GitHub repo across security, testing, docs, architecture, devops, and maintenance. The methodology is still WIP, but the findings are consistent: most repos are skipping the basics.
Security·8 min read·
A UEFI-Secure-Boot-preserving rescue USB for any ISO, and the companion QEMU harness that validates it against ~100 hardware personas without physical Frameworks, ThinkPads, or Dells on a lab bench.
Linux·8 min read·
I left Windows behind for good. Norrath-Native is an IaC-style toolkit that deploys EverQuest on Ubuntu 24.04 with Wine and DXVK, and a growing exploration into what you can actually do with programmatic window management on Linux.
Design·9 min read·
Most developer sites look like SaaS dashboards. Remarque is the antidote — a design system rooted in book typography, 17px body text, 46rem reading columns, and the OKLCH color space. Self-hosted fonts, AI-native tokens, zero CDN dependencies.
Civic Tech·5 min read·
How I built an end-to-end pipeline that converts the United States Code from XML into a Git-versioned, searchable static site with 53,000+ sections and inline case law annotations.