6,081 cameras across three countries on a dark map. SVG plane icons rotating by heading, refreshing every five seconds. Coverage rings over Austin, LA, and Tokyo — three SDR receivers, three window...

The cluster had ears. It had eyes. But you couldn’t talk to it. Galileo kept notebooks too. His were about Jupiter. This one runs on it. The original candidate was code-server — Codium (or Cursor...

1090 MHz. The frequency every commercial aircraft broadcasts on, twenty-four hours a day, unencrypted, to anyone listening. Position, altitude, speed, callsign — all of it, free, in the clear. A $3...

There’s a moment in every infrastructure project where the scope quietly doubles while you’re looking the other way. This one started as “let’s scrape some traffic camera metadata” and ended with 4...

There’s a particular kind of hubris that comes from having a working cluster. Eighteen nodes across Austin, LA, Torrance, and Tokyo — all humming, all green, all connected over Tailscale. The obser...

In Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mortals. Zeus punished him for it — chained to a rock, an eagle eating his liver every day, regenerating every night to suffer...

In the digital dark corners of my network, a dream was stirring. A dream of a single, mighty Kubernetes brain, humming across continents. From the neon glow of Tokyo to the dusty plains of Austin, ...

The Symptom: A Forked Reality It started with a subtle shift in network gravity. While I was in the process of expanding our clean /24 infrastructure into a more robust /23 address space to accommo...