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2026 ⁵⁴

June ¹⁰

The Phantom Bad Blocks: How a 15-Year-Old Linux Bug Took Down 75 Security Cameras

June 11, 2026 · 8 min · 1555 words · Justin

The Alert That Went to Nobody

June 9, 2026 · 4 min · 818 words · Justin

The TLS Cert Only an API Could Renew

June 9, 2026 · 4 min · 772 words · Justin

When Postgres Won’t Start

June 8, 2026 · 5 min · 860 words · Justin

The Sensor That Cried Wolf

June 7, 2026 · 5 min · 857 words · Justin

Why Your Fitness Tracker’s Correlations Are Lying to You

June 6, 2026 · 5 min · 883 words · Justin

The App That Wouldn’t Open After an Update

June 5, 2026 · 4 min · 768 words · Justin

Teaching a Computer to Mute the Sounds I Hate

June 4, 2026 · 5 min · 904 words · Justin

I Found My Own Server on Shodan

June 3, 2026 · 4 min · 767 words · Justin

Seven Network Gotchas That Look Like Ghosts

June 2, 2026 · 4 min · 787 words · Justin

May ¹³

The 99 Access Points That Didn’t Exist

May 29, 2026 · 4 min · 816 words · Justin

The Smart Blind That Took Down an Entire Network

May 28, 2026 · 5 min · 885 words · Justin

The Deploy Script That Ate the Production Database

May 24, 2026 · 4 min · 732 words · Justin

I Found a Secret in a Git Repo (It Was Mine)

May 21, 2026 · 4 min · 837 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Day We Got 56k

May 20, 2026 · 3 min · 540 words · Justin

The PWA That Froze When Offline

May 20, 2026 · 5 min · 873 words · Justin

The API Loop That Ran Up the Bill Overnight

May 18, 2026 · 4 min · 844 words · Justin

One Caddyfile, Infinite Subdomains

May 17, 2026 · 4 min · 772 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Dot-Matrix Printer

May 15, 2026 · 3 min · 534 words · Justin

The Subdomain That Pointed at Nothing

May 12, 2026 · 4 min · 798 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Universal Remote

May 10, 2026 · 3 min · 476 words · Justin

Getting Cameras Out of the Walled Garden

May 10, 2026 · 4 min · 664 words · Justin

90s Kid - The LAN Party

May 5, 2026 · 3 min · 519 words · Justin

April ¹²

90s Kid - The CRT and the Static Zap

April 30, 2026 · 3 min · 521 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Boot Disk

April 25, 2026 · 3 min · 452 words · Justin

The Backup That Hung Forever on OneDrive

April 22, 2026 · 5 min · 888 words · Justin

90s Kid - Flying Toasters and the Screen Saver

April 20, 2026 · 3 min · 474 words · Justin

Two Apps, One Port

April 18, 2026 · 4 min · 827 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Surge Protector Everything Plugged Into

April 15, 2026 · 3 min · 549 words · Justin

The Bot That Hung Because of IPv6

April 15, 2026 · 4 min · 799 words · Justin

How a Mesh VPN Killed My SSH Jump Host

April 11, 2026 · 4 min · 803 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Pager

April 10, 2026 · 3 min · 487 words · Justin

The Speaker That Caused a Network Storm

April 8, 2026 · 5 min · 862 words · Justin

Making a Python Script a Real Service

April 6, 2026 · 4 min · 678 words · Justin

90s Kid - Encarta and the Encyclopedia on a Disc

April 5, 2026 · 3 min · 460 words · Justin

March ¹⁰

90s Kid - Be Kind, Rewind

March 31, 2026 · 3 min · 441 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Walkman and the Pencil

March 26, 2026 · 3 min · 476 words · Justin

90s Kid - The VCR That Blinked 12:00 Forever

March 21, 2026 · 3 min · 502 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Answering Machine

March 16, 2026 · 3 min · 482 words · Justin

The Firewall API Call That Factory-Resets Your Router

March 12, 2026 · 5 min · 853 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Floppy Disk

March 11, 2026 · 3 min · 544 words · Justin

The Payment That Showed $0 (But Wasn’t)

March 8, 2026 · 4 min · 815 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Cable Box and Its Wired Remote

March 6, 2026 · 3 min · 479 words · Justin

How My Own Backup Deleted My Files

March 4, 2026 · 4 min · 723 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Phone Cord That Reached the Whole House

March 1, 2026 · 3 min · 500 words · Justin

February ⁹

When Your Backup Client Lies About Its Name

February 27, 2026 · 4 min · 795 words · Justin

The git rm That Deleted 30,000 Files

February 25, 2026 · 4 min · 774 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Antenna on the Roof

February 24, 2026 · 3 min · 447 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Family Computer in the Living Room

February 19, 2026 · 3 min · 483 words · Justin

The Settings API That Corrupted Every Setting at Once

February 19, 2026 · 4 min · 849 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Sound of Dial-Up

February 14, 2026 · 3 min · 501 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Box on the Side of the House

February 11, 2026 · 2 min · 227 words · Justin

I’m Not Old — I Watched the Internet Get Installed

February 10, 2026 · 3 min · 607 words · Justin

OpenClaw Smart AI Model routing to reduce cost

February 4, 2026 · 10 min · 2055 words · Justin

2025 ¹³

October ¹

Google Drive and OneDrive ARE NOT backups

October 22, 2025 · 1 min · 60 words · Justin

September ¹

My digital brain developed with AI

September 15, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Justin

July ¹

online security gut check. secure yourself now.

July 8, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Justin

June ³

Ransomware: It’s Like an Escape Room… But With Your Business.

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Justin

Explosive home remedies

June 18, 2025 · 1 min · 12 words · Justin

EyeBong

June 18, 2025 · 1 min · 17 words · Justin

May ²

No Fires Today (Because I Put Them Out at 4AM)

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 80 words · Justin

Click this. Click that. Install this. Run that. Update this. Reboot that.

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Justin

April ²

prednisolone

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Justin

Ways to Spot a Scam (Without Even Updating Your Firewall)

April 13, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Justin

March ²

My life

March 18, 2025 · 7 min · 1480 words · Justin

Men in suits: The world’s most successful scammers.

March 2, 2025 · 1 min · 77 words · Justin

February ¹

Breaking news: Colorado takeover starts tomorrow

February 18, 2025 · 1 min · 161 words · Justin

2014 ¹

February ¹

Chronic illness. Do you get it?

February 10, 2014 · 2 min · 276 words · Justin

2010 ¹

March ¹

Pueblo Police - You can not take photos!

March 11, 2010 · 2 min · 249 words · Justin

2009 ³

July ³

The night aliens abducted me

July 28, 2009 · 2 min · 416 words · Justin

Pueblo County Sheriff

July 28, 2009 · 2 min · 410 words · Justin

I Miss

July 28, 2009 · 2 min · 410 words · Justin

2007 ¹

May ¹

Ubuntu

May 1, 2007 · 2 min · 401 words · Justin

2006 ³

October ²

Pandora

October 4, 2006 · 1 min · 184 words · Justin

Logitech® Cordless Desktop® MX™ 5000 Laser= Piece of crap

October 4, 2006 · 3 min · 455 words · Justin

June ¹

Firefox Download Action Blank Fix

June 27, 2006 · 1 min · 121 words · Justin

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June 10

The Phantom Bad Blocks: How a 15-Year-Old Linux Bug Took Down 75 Security Cameras

The Alert That Went to Nobody

The TLS Cert Only an API Could Renew

When Postgres Won’t Start

The Sensor That Cried Wolf

Why Your Fitness Tracker’s Correlations Are Lying to You

The App That Wouldn’t Open After an Update

Teaching a Computer to Mute the Sounds I Hate

I Found My Own Server on Shodan

Seven Network Gotchas That Look Like Ghosts

May 13

The 99 Access Points That Didn’t Exist

The Smart Blind That Took Down an Entire Network

The Deploy Script That Ate the Production Database

I Found a Secret in a Git Repo (It Was Mine)

90s Kid - The Day We Got 56k

The PWA That Froze When Offline

The API Loop That Ran Up the Bill Overnight

One Caddyfile, Infinite Subdomains

90s Kid - The Dot-Matrix Printer

The Subdomain That Pointed at Nothing

90s Kid - The Universal Remote

Getting Cameras Out of the Walled Garden

90s Kid - The LAN Party

April 12

90s Kid - The CRT and the Static Zap

90s Kid - The Boot Disk

The Backup That Hung Forever on OneDrive

90s Kid - Flying Toasters and the Screen Saver

Two Apps, One Port

90s Kid - The Surge Protector Everything Plugged Into

The Bot That Hung Because of IPv6

How a Mesh VPN Killed My SSH Jump Host

90s Kid - The Pager

The Speaker That Caused a Network Storm

Making a Python Script a Real Service

90s Kid - Encarta and the Encyclopedia on a Disc

March 10

90s Kid - Be Kind, Rewind

90s Kid - The Walkman and the Pencil

90s Kid - The VCR That Blinked 12:00 Forever

90s Kid - The Answering Machine

The Firewall API Call That Factory-Resets Your Router

90s Kid - The Floppy Disk

The Payment That Showed $0 (But Wasn’t)

90s Kid - The Cable Box and Its Wired Remote

How My Own Backup Deleted My Files

90s Kid - The Phone Cord That Reached the Whole House

February 9

When Your Backup Client Lies About Its Name

The git rm That Deleted 30,000 Files

90s Kid - The Antenna on the Roof

90s Kid - The Family Computer in the Living Room

The Settings API That Corrupted Every Setting at Once

90s Kid - The Sound of Dial-Up

90s Kid - The Box on the Side of the House

I’m Not Old — I Watched the Internet Get Installed

OpenClaw Smart AI Model routing to reduce cost

2025 13

October 1

Google Drive and OneDrive ARE NOT backups

September 1

My digital brain developed with AI

July 1

online security gut check. secure yourself now.

June 3

Ransomware: It’s Like an Escape Room… But With Your Business.

Explosive home remedies

EyeBong

May 2

No Fires Today (Because I Put Them Out at 4AM)

Click this. Click that. Install this. Run that. Update this. Reboot that.

April 2

prednisolone

Ways to Spot a Scam (Without Even Updating Your Firewall)

March 2

My life

Men in suits: The world’s most successful scammers.

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