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May 18, 2026
I’ve talked about my use of Obsidian in the past. It’s my second brain, yet it takes too much manual effort to track everything in it. What important emails were there today? What meetings? Any tasks? In my role as a security practioner, were there new vulnerabilities …
December 27, 2025
Reading my 2024 retrospective was a little depressing, yet I’m happy to report that despite this year having its challenges, they were nothing like last year. What an amazing way to feel gratitude… remembering the things you’ve gone through and seeing that …
December 16, 2025
Recently I’ve done a lot of reorganization with TrueNAS, migrating Plex and Gitea to TrueNAS-based virtual machines and just generally spending a bunch of time poking around with my home lab and improving things. A few weeks ago I started actually using containers in …
December 2, 2025
I’ve written two articles previously, first was moving Gitea from FreeBSD to Linux and the second was a followup on accessing TrueNAS shares from a nested VM. The first was a few weeks ago, the second a few days. I took a long weekend and also took advantage of some Black …
November 29, 2025
In my previous article on moving Gitea from FreeBSD to Linux I ended the post noting that I needed to be able to share the host NAS filesystem with a virtual machine it was hosting. In my case, this is so that Gitea backups could be stored on the NAS external to the virtual …
November 18, 2025
I’ve been using TrueNAS for a number of years, from when it was FreeBSD-based to now that it’s Linux-based. Right now I use them both: TrueNAS Core (FreeBD) and TrueNAS Scale (Linux). The TrueNAS Scale box has been mostly for fiddling with containers, while the …
September 24, 2025
Tomorrow, the first episode of the new Compiler podcast season is coming out, and this season is all about product security topics! The season’s title is “The New Security Landscape” and we dive into quite a few topics pertinent to security practitioners (or …
June 3, 2025
A few weeks ago I was back in Boston for Red Hat Summit 2025. You can watch the keynote for day 1 and the keynote for day 2 on YouTube. This was probably one of the best Summit events that I’ve been to and the energy was absolutely electric. There were a ton of product …
May 29, 2025
Back in April I attended VulnCon, the second year this conference has been held by FIRST and the CVE program. This was a great conference for incident responders working on developing software. There were a ton of great talks, many of which I was unable to attend so I’m …
May 7, 2025
It’s been a bit since I’ve had a chance to write a blog post about something technical. As with most people in the world, I’ve been trying to dive deeper into using AI and making it make me more efficient and useful. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the …