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• Call mom
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2026-08-21

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Thoughts of the day: Icecast servers with unexpectedly high listener counts, Sunflower Crunch, modern uses for a Casio Databank

2026-08-20

ISSMP, Information Systems Security Management Professional

2026-08-15

It's weird, right? Everything posted here gets indexed by search engines, scraped by agents, everything. It's a bit of a standoff. We're definitely all figuring it out. Anywhere there's enough here that it'll be neat to see what gets cooked into models.

Thoughts of the day: early digitization(1-bit, with the threshold slightly off) aesthetics, knowing what your watch buttons do

2026-TBD

I can't tell you about it yet

2026-??

Re-launched this site

2025-??

Launched this site

2025-10

CCSP, Certified Cloud Security Professional

2024-06

CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Hey, it's still a personal site. :)

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• dashplusascii, an extension of and ASCII-friendly version of The Dash/Plus System.
• pomodoro, a very simple Pomodoro timer.

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