I write about

architecture.

engineering.

construction.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

From Fusion Tutorials to My First Electronics Enclosure

A tutorial bottle, a practice tray, and the difference between making a shape and making a part.

Today I finished Day 2 of a 30-day Autodesk Fusion learning series: a bottle with a shaped neck and an open top. When it was done, I sat looking at it and asked myself a simple question. What could I actually build with what I just practiced? [Read More]

Overwatch Engineering Lab, Day 1: Learning Fusion on No Sleep

A tutorial toy block, a practice mounting plate, and a lot of hunting around an interface I didn't know yet.

Monday is Fusion night in the Overwatch Engineering Lab schedule, and today was the first one. I’ll be honest up front: it kind of sucked. I was running on no sleep, and learning a new interface while tired means spending a lot of time looking for buttons and rereading things... [Read More]

Troubleshooting a Windows Hosts-File Issue: My First IT Support Lab

A simulated help desk ticket, a wrong hostname mapping, and what I learned about separating name resolution, connectivity, and the app itself.

In my last post I wrote that I’d document the labs and the mistakes along with the plan. This is the first one. It’s a small Windows support lab: one broken hostname, one local web page, and a handful of PowerShell commands. Simple as it was, I made a wrong... [Read More]

From Software to Silicon: My Roadmap to Hardware Hacking, IoT Security, and Cybersecurity Research

Why I'm pursuing penetration testing, learning Linux, building embedded systems, and weighing industry certifications against a PhD in Cybersecurity.

For most of my career I’ve worked on the software side of technology: writing Python, building analytics, and keeping deployments running as a software and DevOps engineer. Lately, though, my attention keeps drifting down the stack, past the operating system and the firmware, toward the circuit board itself. This post... [Read More]