Playing With This Site
This site has more going on than a blog has any right to. Easter eggs, fake ops dashboards, CTF flags, honeypots, and a Konami code. Here's everything you can poke at.
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How This Blog Is Built
Hugo, self-hosted fonts, a strict CSP, and GitHub Actions. No Node in the build pipeline. No analytics. No external dependencies.
CCNA Notes: Subnetting Without a Calculator
The method that finally made subnetting click — working through it by hand until it becomes automatic.
Proxmox VLAN Setup for a Homelab
How I segmented my homelab traffic into VLANs using Proxmox's Linux bridge — management, services, IoT, and guest networks on a single NIC.
React Server Components: What Actually Changed
RSC is not just a performance optimization. It changes how you think about the boundary between server and client in a React app.
Django vs FastAPI for Side Projects
After building side projects in both frameworks, here's when I reach for Django and when FastAPI is the better tool.
Setting Up My First Homelab
How I turned three old workstations into a Proxmox cluster — hardware choices, network setup, and the mistakes I made so you don't have to.
Learning Go as a Python Developer
Notes from my first month writing Go after years of Python. What felt familiar, what didn't, and the things I wish someone had told me earlier.