2026.05.03
Built in a Weekend, Runs While You Sleep
A personal news pipeline assembled with Claude — from RSS feeds to a spoken-word podcast, all on a machine under the desk.
ai
20 min
Notes from an SRE
I’m an SRE who can’t stop building things. This blog is where I document the home lab projects, tools, and technologies I’m obsessing over — whether that’s something I picked up managing production infrastructure at scale or something I stood up in my basement at midnight.
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2026.05.15
Adding Passkey Authentication to ADFS with PocketID
ADFS supports OIDC for downstream apps but only speaks SAML 2.0 for incoming federation. PocketID only speaks OIDC. So we extended PocketID’s Go backend with a SAML IdP …
security
20 min
2026.05.15
Eight Layers of ADFS Debugging: Adding PocketID as a ADFS Claims Provider
Connecting PocketID to ADFS as an external claims provider sounds straightforward until MSIS5007 appears and every assumption turns out to be wrong. This is the full account of …
security
23 min
2026.05.13
AI Doesn't Have to Be Serious: Building a Disney Dreamlight Valley Assistant
Not every AI project needs a business case. Here’s how I wired up a local AI assistant to help me play a cozy video game — using OpenWebUI, a MediaWiki MCP server, and a …
ai
13 min
2026.05.03
Built in a Weekend, Runs While You Sleep
A personal news pipeline assembled with Claude — from RSS feeds to a spoken-word podcast, all on a machine under the desk.
ai
20 min
2024.03.14
SSH Certificates
How the introduction of SSH Certificates into an environment reduces risk and increases visability into SSH use.
security
12 min
2022.05.09
SLOConf 2022: What are SLI's, and why should I care?
Very commonly within the Reliability Engineering community, we talk about Service Level Objectives (SLO’s), but rarely do we talk about the underpinning indicators that tell us …
talks
1 min