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Setting Up a Secure Linux Workstation
A practical explanation of workstation security, developer tooling, credentials, attack surface, recovery, and maintainability.
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A technical board for practical work.
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Network Segmentation Basics
A practical explanation of trust boundaries, firewall policy, segmentation, and why unnecessary network pathways matter.
My Cybersecurity Journey
A practical path through systems, Linux, networking, development, AI tooling, and cybersecurity.
Building Practical Local LLM Workflows
Using local language models for development, structured technical work, analysis, and automation without depending entirely on cloud tooling.
Building Shimori Cyber from Scratch
From HTML and CSS to GitHub, Cloudflare Pages, DNS, responsive design, and a real deployment workflow.
Hardening a Small Network
Practical steps for reducing attack surface, improving visibility, and making small networks easier to secure and troubleshoot.
Why Write It Down?
Documentation turns experience into something reusable.
Technical work is easy to forget when the problem is solved and the terminal window closes.
Writing down the reasoning, failures, commands, architecture decisions, and lessons learned creates something that can be reused later.
These writeups are meant to be useful to me, useful to other people learning similar systems, and useful as evidence of how I approach technical work.
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