I’ve had this dream for years of building a security command center that doesn’t care who manufactured the equipment. If I see a camera, doorbell, smart lock, or garage door gadget I like, I want to buy it, bring it…

Typing with my nose I’ve been doing a lot of command entry;on my phone lately, and I’ve come to the conclusion that whoever designed these little smartphone keyboards must have fingers the size of toothpicks. I’m trying to type commads,…

FlightCheck — Will It Fly? My Samsung S25 is looking less like an S25 every day. I’ve twisted the settings around to automate a few tasks, installed a couple of things from F-Droid, and loaded it up with some of…

October 19, 2026 | Morning Update Machine Management and Multi-Platform Development This morning’s FortiDude update expands project management across multiple development machines. With the addition of machine registration and project location tracking, FortiDude can now help organize where projects are…

I hatched the idea for Brrvty at Dell Technologies World this year. I was sitting in a session, and the pearls of knowledge were dropping so fast and hard I felt like a Volkswagen in a hailstorm. There was no…

I’ve been running my own web servers for years, and one thing you learn pretty quickly is that the internet is full of people and automated programs poking around where they don’t belong. Some are looking for passwords. Others are…

If you grew up with an Apple IIe in the classroom, you know exactly what I’m talking about. That green glow. That hum. The way your eyes felt like they’d been sandblasted after an hour of staring at monochrome green…

I’ve been building quite a few applications lately, and one thing I’ve learned is that finding bugs is easy. Keeping track of them all is another story. I’ll be testing something, notice a button doesn’t work, a page looks terrible…

I run several websites and applications on small instances in cloud infrastructure. For the most part, everything works pretty well. But I kept running into one problem that drove me nuts: updating the server could freeze the entire machine. I…