Agentic AI is not scary because it can write a better paragraph than a chatbot from two years ago. It is scary because it can read, decide, click, call tools, remember context, and take action inside systems we already struggle to secure. I have been thinking a lot about a recent piece in The Hacker News that frames...

Just another late weekly notes… It was a busy weekend and first of this week, it almost escaped my mind. The vibe A full, proud, slightly chaotic family week. Between the college graduation, the party, the choir concert, and the quick Lubbock trip, this one had that “life is moving fast, but in a good way” feeling....

The vibe A slower, slightly worn-down week that still found a little room for rest, tinkering, and small wins. Highlights 🥵 Last week was quite warm/hot. This whole winter/spring actually has been pretty warm. I am not looking forward to the Texas summer heat if this is how the spring is. 🤒 Well, again, I was sick...

I have been getting versions of this question for a while now on Mastodon and elsewhere, so I figured it was finally worth answering in one place. Every time a major cybersecurity story breaks, there is a rush. A new breach. A new zero-day. A new vendor statement. A new round of panic. A new thread from people...

A browser that decrypts your full saved-password vault at launch and leaves it in process memory is not delivering secure convenience. It is widening the blast radius after compromise, and calling that by design does not make it a good design. Last week’s reporting from Malwarebytes, SANS Internet Storm Center, and...

Anthropic’s latest Chrome extension issue deserves more attention than a quick “vendor patched a bug” headline. As CyberScoop reported, researchers say Claude’s browser extension could be hijacked by another extension, including one with no special permissions. That is not a small bug. That is a warning shot. The...

The problem is not that Google wants more AI inside Chrome. The problem is that Chrome appears willing to treat users’ computers like rollout infrastructure. There is a version of this story that is too simple. It goes something like this: Google is shoving AI onto everyone’s machine, therefore everything about it...

When I released Catppuccin Complete UI for Mastodon 2.0, I felt like the project had finally grown into what I wanted it to be. It was no longer just my own Mocha-flavored tweak of Bird UI. It had become a more complete Catppuccin theme system with multiple flavors, accent choices, fixed CSS exports, and a much...

This week was a bit of a regular week as it would go. The vibe A grounded week with a surprisingly big ending. Nothing about it felt flashy, but between family moments, steady progress, and finally finishing my degree, it ended up meaning a lot. Highlights ☁️ Tuesday and Wednesday was the Virtual Cloud Security...

I have been slowly removing little bits of friction from my website. Not the fun friction. I still like writing in Markdown. I still like having the site live in a GitHub repo. I still like that this place is built with Eleventy and plain files instead of being hidden behind a dashboard somewhere. But there are a...

I added a small thing to my website recently that I am probably more excited about than the size of the feature suggests. I can now publish quick notes to the site without sitting down at my laptop, opening the repo, creating a new Markdown file by hand, filling out the front matter, committing it, pushing it, and...

So my daughter had her final tennis tournament this past Saturday and it was a sunny day. She did very well this time around and ended up placing 3rd overall! With that though, we were there the entire tournament. Dummy me, I didn’t bring a hat. I look like a lobster. LOL.