End-of-year notebook
Christmas-week notebook post. The end of three years of writing. Some closing observations on what the discipline has and has not produced.
Notes from the field
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Long-form thinking on cyber defence, detection, and resilience — from Slackware-era honeypots through to AI-driven SOC analytics.
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Midyear reflection: six months into 2000
Six months into a year I expected to be busy. Time to take stock — what has happened, what has surprised me, what I want to do over the next six months.
Two years on, and the notebook continues
A short birthday post. Two years of writing this notebook in public. The discipline has worked better than I had any right to expect, and the year ahead has the shape of being interesting.
Last post of the millennium
Two hours from midnight in the UK. The year is closing. The decade is closing. The millennium, by some accountings, is closing too. A short note, mostly to put a marker down.
A small note on humility
An off-cadence post. After six months of confident writing about defensive computing, a reflection on the limits of my own current understanding and the things I have written about that I am no longer sure I had right.
A year of Slackware
Looking back on twelve months of running a Slackware box and trying to learn computer security through it. The end-of-year notes I want to remember.