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229 Total Posts
4 Years Active
65 Categories
252 Days Blogging
[October]
One for the Road: Trust, but Verify Oct 24 Cybersecurity
Installing Orca IDE on Debian from the Terminal (and Why I Turned Yolo Mode Off) Oct 24 Lab Journal
Installing Goose: The Docs Were Wrong Three Times Oct 23 AI & Agents
Stepping away for a while & why, but… I’ll be back! Oct 23 My Travels
PHP2Shell: How I Found Out and What I Did About It Oct 22 Cybersecurity
My First Mercury 3 API Call: A Key, a Clipboard, and a 401 Oct 21 Lab Journal
God Is Real Unless Declared INTEGER: From a Fortran Joke to Catching Silent Bugs in Python Oct 20 Concept Explainers
Lab Journal: The Mesa Conflict I Saw Coming — Tumbleweed Update, Round Two Oct 20 Lab Journal
Virtual Polymaths: What 50 Physics Problems Reveal About AI Agents Oct 18 Concept Explainers
Restarting the CSI Linux Certified Investigator: Hardening My Investigation VM Before Module 1 Oct 15 Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR)
Python Basics for Automation — Study Notes Oct 15 AI & Automation
AI Is Writing More Code. Who’s Checking It for Security? Oct 14 AI & Automation
One Laptop, Two Linuxes, and a Boot File That Ate Itself: Fixing a Self-Inflicted Initramfs Bug Oct 14 Home Lab
Chasing an MCP Timeout: SQLcl, Swap, and a Server Open to My Network Oct 11 Black Hat Python
Building a Public Notes Site with Quartz 5 — Phase 3: Deploy, Domain, and Proof on the Live Site Oct 10 Black Hat Python
Two Machines, Two Hidden Gaps: Desktop and Travel Laptop Hardening Oct 9 Lab Journal
From SELinux Back to AppArmor: What I Had, What I Have, and Why Oct 9 Lab Journal
Setup Changelog: Why My Machine Does What It Does Oct 9 Cybersecurity
Building a Public Notes Site with Quartz 5 — Phase 2: Privacy, Proof, and a Clean Commit Oct 7 Black Hat Python
Building a Public Notes Site with Quartz 5 — Phase 1: Local Build Oct 7 Black Hat Python
Lab Journal: Setting Up REA + Ghidra 12.1.4 on Debian — and What it Taught me about AWS and Black Hat Python Oct 6 Cybersecurity
I Updated One AI Tool and Ended Up Auditing My Whole Lab Oct 4 Cybersecurity
OpenClaw Explained: Why a Self-Hosted AI Agent Matters (and How I Locked Mine Down) Oct 3 Cybersecurity
[September]
Lessons Learned: A Browser Test That Found a Live Outage Sep 29 Cybersecurity
Lab Journal: When Packman and openSUSE Disagree About VLC — Updating a Tumbleweed VM Sep 29 Lab Journal
First Blood: Backdoor to Cracked Credentials on Metasploitable Sep 28 Offensive Security
Does My Rust Nightly Have the New Trait Solver? Sep 27 Lab Journal
Building a Cyber Range Inside Proxmox: Kali vs. Metasploitable on an Isolated Bridge Sep 27 Home Lab
Building a Go REST API From an Empty Folder — and Actually Understanding It Sep 25 Learning Log
My Complete Rust Development Setup on Debian 13 Sep 23 Developer Setup
Mini-AGI: What It Really Is, Why My 2 GB GPU Couldn’t Handle It, and What I’d Try Next Sep 23 AI Research & Experiments
Planning Post: Is a Vendor Security Conference Worth the Trip from Honolulu? Sep 22 Cybersecurity
Building a Jev-Powered Model Router with LangChain and TypeSafe AI-Jev Sep 21 Lab Journal
The Comment Fiasco: How One “Testing” Comment Led Me to a Hidden Snippet, 110 Spam Bots, and a Baseball Script Sep 21 Lab Journal
Teaching a Brute-Forcer to Dream: Fixed vs. Recursive Exploration Sep 21 AI & Offensive Security
90 Seconds of Nothing: Fixing a TPM Boot Stall and Building a Learn-First Claude Code Setup on Omarchy Sep 20 Black Hat Python
Thinking Through: Adding Persistent Logging to Contact Form Triage Sep 19 Concept Explainers
Debian on the Host, Tumbleweed in the VM: Why I’m Not Migrating Before Europe Sep 19 Linux & Development
How Jev (Typesafe AI’s system-one model) actually works and how to call it Sep 19 Concept Explainers
Building Odin from Source on Debian: A Clean Compile Sep 19 Lab Journal
Deref Isn’t Inheritance: What Rust Interviews Are Really Testing For Sep 19 Concept Explainers
Jev’s First Verdict: Correct in 5.6 Seconds Sep 17 Cybersecurity
Getting Ready for Jev: Installing TypeSafe’s SDK, Joining the Waitlist, and Cleaning Up My GitHub Sep 17 Cybersecurity
From “No Listener” to “Connected to an Idle Instance”: My Oracle Lab on Debian Sep 16 Home Lab
Learning Rust VecDeque – Step by Step Sep 15 Programming
The Benchmark That Wasn’t: How One md5sum Caught a Comparison of Nothing Against Nothing Sep 13 Lab Journal
Preparing UniMate on Debian: GPU Tests, Python Troubleshooting, and the Next Steps Sep 12 Lab Journal
Debug vs Release: What a ‘Hello, World’ Taught Me About Zig, Roc, and the Cost of Debug Symbols Sep 12 Lab Journal
CSI Linux Certified Investigator (CSI CI) — Complete Reference Summary Sep 11 Cybersecurity
Oracle 21c XE + SQL Developer: Full Setup Summary Sep 9 Database Administration
 Complete Guide: Installing Oracle Database 21c XE on Debian with Docker Sep 9 Database Administration
Technology Scales Judgment — It Doesn’t Replace It Sep 7 Deep Dives
Building My Private Remote-Access Homelab: Debian, Tailscale, SSH, SCP, and a Webcam Sep 6 Home Lab
Lab Journal: Preparing My Second HP Laptop for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Sep 6 Cybersecurity
Installing Debian 13 Alongside Omarchy Without a USB: An Overnight Linux Recovery Expedition Sep 6 Linux Troubleshooting
Going Official: Migrating from the Unofficial Claude Desktop Build to Anthropic’s Linux Beta Sep 4 Lab Journal
The Case of the Vanishing Window: Diagnosing a Silent Electron App Failure on Debian Sep 4 Lessons Learned
My Complete Journey: From CSV to Sparse Matrix in Julia Sep 4 Julia
From 1.24 Seconds to 0.010: My First Numba Lab on Debian Sep 4 Lab Journal
[August]
Rue: A Quick Reference (and How It Came to Be) Aug 31 Programming
Building a Full-Stack TypeScript Application with Onion Architecture Aug 31 Full-Stack Development
Today’s Scala 3 Installation: My Complete Summary Aug 31 Scala
First Contact with Julia: Generated Functions, Dispatch, and Why the Language Exists Aug 31 Julia
Porting the Iron Fish RPC Client to Rust (and Debugging a Terminal That Lies) Aug 31 Home Lab
Fortran 90/95 Quick Reference Guide Aug 30 BLAS
Haskell: The Elegant Language of Pure Functions Aug 29 Academic & Research Computing
From an ArrayRef Warning to a Real Rust Audit on Debian Aug 28 Cybersecurity
Etcher Said Success—But My USB Kept Booting Omarchy Aug 27 Lab Journal
Building, Breaking, and Scripting Iron Fish: A Black Hat Python Field Log Aug 26 Cybersecurity
Building My 2026 Rust Toolkit: What I Installed, What I Learned, and What Comes Next Aug 25 Programming
A Better Way to Explore Rust Crates from the Terminal Aug 25 Lab Journal
Installing Omarchy 4 in VMware Workstation on Debian: From Black Screen to Beautiful Desktop Aug 24 Home Lab
Lab Journal: Stable vs. Nightly, the Next-Gen Trait Solver, and a Full Git/GitHub Loop Aug 24 Programming
The Harness, Not the Horse Aug 23 AI & Agents
My Complete Local Oracle 26ai + Claude Desktop Setup Aug 22 Database Development Environment
Before NY2Honolulu, … was Boot Up! Aug 21 Throwback
The Data Science Wheel: 9 Sites Worth Spinning Through Aug 19 Data Science
From Broken Builds to a Working Counter: Getting Hands-On with GPUI on Linux Aug 18 Rust
From Neural Networks to the AI Black Box Aug 17 AI & Agents
Why Burn’s Backend Architecture Matters Aug 14 Programming
Lab Journal: First Burn Build — WGPU Backend, Tensor Test Aug 14 Programming
Forward Deployed Engineer — My Learning Roadmap Aug 14 Software Engineering
Building a Complete REST API with Axum in Rust: My Journey 🦀 Aug 12 Programming
Zig Lesson 1 — Edit, Run, Pause (My Stack in Practice) Aug 10 Functional Programming
Building My First Leptos Web Application with Rust and WebAssembly Aug 10 Linux & Development
From Zed to WASM-4: How a Zig Discord Rabbit Hole Got Me Building Tiny Games Aug 9 Indie Game Dev
Zed + Roc + Zig — My Stack Reference Aug 9 Developer Setup
How I Built a Home Lab SIEM with Wazuh on Debian (Complete Guide) Aug 8 Cybersecurity
From SciPy to Ferris: Building Two Powerful Learning Environments in One Afternoon Aug 7 Developer Setup
How to Install Tailscale on Multiple Devices (Quick Reference) Aug 6 Home Lab
Zed + Roc + Zig — The Full Stack Aug 3 Programming
Setting Up a Clean Python + Rust Practice Environment Aug 2 Developer Setup
Why I Stopped the Deitel Course to Fix My Python Environment Chaos (And Why It Was Necessary) Aug 2 Programming
From Zero to Live Next.js App on Vercel (Debian Edition) Aug 1 Next.js
[July]
Setting Up a DShield Honeypot on Ubuntu 26.04 in VMware Jul 29 Cybersecurity
When “It’s Down” Isn’t the Whole Story: A TLS Handshake Mystery Jul 29 Home Lab
Trying Topcoat – A New Full-Stack Reactive Framework for Rust Jul 28 Rust
Setting Up Rust + Learning Workflow Jul 28 Operating Systems
Rust Polonius Borrow Checker Jul 28 Rust
Diagnosing a Silent WP-Cron Failure: From Stuck Backups to a Reliable Fix Jul 27 Home Lab
I Watched Every Instruction of a Linux Program Run — Here’s What Actually Happens Jul 25 Cybersecurity
My Experience with angr 9.3.0 Jul 24 Cybersecurity
Lessons Learned: From a Silent Gmail API Failure to a Properly Authenticated Domain Jul 24 Home Lab
Compiler Explorer + Binary Ninja Jul 23 Cybersecurity
Just Enuf Java – Course Notes (UH Mānoa) Jul 22 Functional Programming
My Experience with Ghidra Jul 22 Cybersecurity
My Experience with GDB 16.3 on Debian Jul 22 Cybersecurity
IDA Free 9.4 – Installation & Usage Summary Jul 22 Reverse Engineering
Lab Journal Jul 22 Home Lab
Project: Booting Linux Inside a Formally Verified Microkernel (Or: How I Spent a Day Fighting GCC) Jul 21 Cybersecurity
My First Steps with OCaml: From Installation to Running My Own Program on Debian Jul 21 Functional Programming
My Journey into Nand2Tetris: Building a Computer from Scratch Jul 20 Home Lab
From Zero to Hello World: My First Steps into x86 Assembly Language (64-bit) Jul 20 Home Lab
xv6-riscv: MIT’s Beautiful Minimalist OS That Taught Me How Kernels Really Work Jul 20 Home Lab
My Study Plan: Learning C with K&R and Building ls from Scratch Jul 19 Home Lab
OSINT Bible Jul 18 Cybersecurity
Building a Cyber Range Inside Proxmox: Kali vs Metasploitable2 Jul 18 Cybersecurity
My Journey Learning Async Rust Jul 18 Rust
My Gentle AI Adventure: Learning at My Own Pace in Retirement Jul 15 AI & Agents
A Comprehensive Guide to Automating Your Development Workflow with Cursor + Linear Jul 14 AI & Automation
Installing FreeBSD 15.1 in VMware Workstation: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide Jul 14 Home Lab
Why I Installed MINIX 3.3 in 2026 – A Retro Journey Back to K&R C Jul 13 Linux & Development
Black Hat Python 2nd Edition on Kali Linux 2026.2 – Full Lab Setup Jul 10 Black Hat Python
🔍 My Shodan + Black Hat Python Journey: Internet-Scale Reconnaissance & Offensive Security Automation Jul 9 Black Hat Python
🐉 DragonOS VMware Lab Summary Jul 7 Cybersecurity
🏠 How Adaptix C2 Will Supercharge Your Home Lab – Complete Setup Recap Jul 7 Home Lab
Setting Up Claude Fable 5 for My K&R C Programming Journey Jul 6 Operating Systems
“The Linux Programming Interface” and “System Programming in Linux” Jul 5 Operating Systems
Building a Cyber Range Inside VMware: Proxmox, Metasploitable2, and a Long Saturday Jul 4 Cybersecurity
Complete SDR & LTE Analysis Setup: A Step-by-Step Journey Jul 3 Home Lab
My HP LaserJet MFP M140w Setup Journey on Debian: A Tale of USB, Wi-Fi, and Persistence Jul 1 Linux & Development
[June]
My Journey Installing Voicebox on Debian Linux – Open Source AI Voice Studio Jun 30 AI & Automation
Setting Up Ornith-1.0 Locally on Debian – Free Claude Alternative Jun 29 AI & Automation
The Recon Trip: A Day-by-Day Plan San Sebastián, Nice & Madrid October 26 – November 13, 2026 Jun 28 My Travels
📋 MY COMPLETE CSI LINUX, KALI & PARROT VM RENEWAL SUMMARY for My New Forensic & Security Lab! Jun 27 Cybersecurity
From PXE Hell to BlackArch Glory: A VMware Installation Saga Jun 25 Cybersecurity
🧠 Debian AI Setup Summary Jun 23 Linux & Development
🖥️ System Overview: Parrot OS Security Workstation Jun 23 Cybersecurity
🧠 Cleaning Up My Cybersecurity Home Lab on Debian: VMware, Kali, CSI Linux & Virtual Machine Management Jun 21 Cybersecurity
Tails Setup Progress Summary Jun 19 Operating Systems
Setting Up Dual Debian Machines for Paul Deitel’s Python Course (2026 Edition) Jun 19 Black Hat Python
Successful Setup of Moonshot Kimi K2.7 Code on Debian Jun 17 AI & Agents
Setting Up Dual Debian Machines for Paul Deitel’s Python Course (2026 Edition) Jun 17 Black Hat Python
Full AI/ML Setup Complete on Debian 13 — HP Laptop + ASUS Desktop Jun 16 AI & Automation
“Dual Machine AI Environment: Python + R on Debian (Complete Guide)” Jun 16 AI & Automation
Building a Hybrid Quantum + Multi-Physics Platform: IonQ + Genesis World on AWS EC2 (June 2026) Jun 14 Home Lab
Genesis Installation on Three Machines Jun 14 Home Lab
Genesis Installation on Two Machines (HP Laptop + ASUS Desktop) Jun 14 Home Lab
Today’s Setup Summary & Configuration Jun 13 AI & Agents
My Portable Persistent Debian USB Setup for Travel Jun 12 Linux & Development
ny2honolulu.com Progress Update: Added Gentle Cloud Movement + Enhanced Palm Tree Animation 🌴☁️ Jun 8 Home Lab
Getting Started with LangGraph: State Management for AI Agents Jun 8 AI & Agents
My Current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 AI/ML Setup Jun 6 Home Lab
Setting Up a Powerful Development Environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 Jun 5 Home Lab
Progress Update: Adding Life to My Homepage Jun 4 Home Lab
How I Set Up GLM-5-Turbo on My Debian Linux Machine (June 2026) Jun 3 AI & Agents
How to Get Early Access to MAI-Thinking-1: Microsoft’s New Reasoning Model (2026 Guide) Jun 3 AI & Agents
How I Installed Anki and Imported My CompTIA Security+ Deck on Debian (Step-by-Step Guide) Jun 3 Cybersecurity
[May]
My First Steps into Web Development: Setting Up My First Projects May 31 Home Lab
✅ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 Installation Summary May 30 Home Lab
NY2Honolulu May 28 Cybersecurity
How I Set Up Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” as a VMware VM in 2026 May 27 Home Lab
Terminal Grok 4.3 Integration & Persistent SDK Setup – Completed May 26 Linux & Development
“Running Continual Harness: Self-Improving AI Agent for Pokémon Emerald (Full Setup Guide)” May 22 AI & Agents
Today’s Setup Summary & Configuration May 22 Cybersecurity
My Quest for the Perfect Linux Browser in 2026: Testing 7 Privacy-Focused Browsers on Debian May 20 Cybersecurity
✅ Black Hat Python Journey – Summary (as of May 19, 2026) May 19 Black Hat Python
Building a Local AI Agent Stack with Hermes Agent v0.14 on Debian May 19 AI & Agents
How I Set Up and Started Experimenting with LeWorldModel (Yann LeCun’s JEPA) on a Modest Debian Machine May 17 AI & Agents
Hermes Agent Setup Summary (as of now) May 12 AI & Agents
Uncensored AI Models: Everything You Need to Know in 2026 May 11 AI & Agents
From Bare Metal Tragedy to VM Success: Installing CSI Linux 2026.4 on Debian May 8 Cybersecurity
Protected: Illinois / Chicago Consultation Plan 2026 May 4 My Travels
How to Install Multiworld Mod on a Debian Linux Server (Minecraft 26.1 + Fabric) May 4 Home Lab
How I Set Up Stripe CLI on Debian Using Docker (Step-by-Step) May 1 Home Lab
4-Week Study Plan (Aligned with Brandon Rich’s Book) May 1 Home Lab
My AWS Cleanup + Certified Developer Associate Study Guide May 1 Home Lab
[April]
My Current R Setup: My Tidyverse Cheat Sheet – The commands I use most Apr 26 Home Lab
My DeepSeek V4 Todo App Project – Complete Summary Apr 25 AI & Agents
Summary of Setup (for Paul Deitel’s Course) Apr 24 Home Lab
How I Freed Over 350 GB on My Debian Machine in One Afternoon Apr 23 Home Lab
Here is my exact 14-Day Menu Plan: May 1, 2026 Apr 23
Trying to Run Kimi K2.5 Locally on a Normal PC (Reality Check) Apr 21 AI & Agents
I’ve successfully prepared a solid dual-environment setup for working through Black Hat Python (2nd Edition) by Justin Seitz & Tim Arnold. Apr 20 Black Hat Python
10,000 steps walk Apr 19
Hermes Agent Installation Summary (on Debian Linux) Apr 19 AI & Agents
Accommodation Summary: San Sebastian & Nice Recon Trip Apr 12
My Current Kali Setup (April 10, 2026): Apr 10 Cybersecurity
Project Glasswing Apr 8 AI & Agents
Motherboard Swap Gone Wrong: A 5-Second Power Cycle Nightmare Apr 8 Home Lab
Finally Got Pi Working on Debian – My New Favorite Minimal AI Coding Agent Apr 7 AI & Agents
Unsloth Studio Installation Summary (on Debian) Apr 6 AI & Automation
Gemma Installation Summary – April 4, 2026 Apr 4 AI & Agents
Protected: April 2026 – A New Chapter Begins Apr 3 My Travels
Self-Hosting Paperclip AI on Debian: My Journey Running a JARVIS-style AI Company from Honolulu Apr 3 AI & Agents
Hey, here’s a quick summary of what I got done today on the XPS 8930: Apr 1 Linux & Development
I Set Up a Local Claude Sonnet 4.6 AI Coding Agent on Debian Apr 1 AI & Agents
[March]
Protected: April 2026 – New Chapter Begins Mar 31 My Travels
My Debian AI Machine is Now Fully Refreshed – Local LLM Stack Update (March 2026) Mar 30 AI & Automation
Countdown Mar 27 My Travels
My Clean Python Setup on Debian Using pyenv (2026 Guide) Mar 25 Linux & Development
Quick Update: Setting Up My Personal AI Lobster on Debian (OpenClaw 2026 Edition) Mar 18 AI & Automation
My Self-Hosted DeerFlow Setup: Local SuperAgent with Ollama & Qwen 2.5 (No Cloud, No Costs) Mar 12 AI & Automation
Protected: Spain Relocation Journey – March 2026 Check-In Mar 9 My Travels
[February]
Protected: February 17, 2026 – Private Log Feb 17 My Travels
🌺 Maintenance Log: Site Check & Refresh – Feb 15, 2026 Feb 15 Home Lab

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