There is a version of the AI conversation in managed services that already feels worn out. It is the version where every vendor demo implies the future MSP is almost autonomous, every workflow is one prompt away from solving itself, and every owner just needs to “embrace AI” before the competition leaves them...

When I first shared my Catppuccin Mastodon theme, it was a pretty personal project. I wanted Mastodon’s web UI to feel more comfortable for me, more intentional, and more in line with the kind of design language I already liked. That first version was focused mainly on a Catppuccin Mocha look and my preferred...

A friend on Mastodon, CJ Errington, put this story on my radar after Neowin reported that Microsoft had pulled the developer accounts tied to WireGuard and VeraCrypt. The headline is attention-grabbing on its own, but the part that really matters to me is not the drama. It is what this says about how fragile...

I have been wanting to build a starter theme for a while that feels more like the kind of web I actually enjoy using. Not sterile. Not overly polished. Not trying to look like every SaaS landing page on the internet. That idea turned into Retro Garden, my new Eleventy starter theme. It is built for personal...

Lately I have been spending a lot of time thinking about how to build something a little bigger around the work I already do here. I have my regular blog posts. I have my CybersecKyle Security How-To series that I am actively working on. I have the day to day real-world perspective that comes from working in IT,...

I spent some time recently rebuilding my sponsorship and membership pages across GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, and Buy Me a Coffee. On the surface, that probably looks like a small housekeeping task. Update some wording. Clean up some old perks. Swap out a few links. Done. But honestly, it felt bigger than that. It felt...

One of the biggest mistakes I see in small business IT and even in some larger environments is that routers are still treated like background equipment. I have been circling this theme for a while in posts like The FCC’s Router Crackdown Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone in Cybersecurity and The Network Edge Cleanup Most...

I am happy to share a new open source project I have been working on: @kylereddoch/eleventy-plugin-mastodon-share. You can browse the source on GitHub and try the live demo. It is a small Eleventy plugin that makes it easier for people to share posts from your site to Mastodon. If you have ever tried to add Mastodon...

Coming in a day late with this one again but it is for a good reason. I was busy launching my new design yesterday. The vibe This week felt grounded in the best way. There was a lot of energy poured into launching my new blog design, but it was balanced out by a quieter weekend, some real physical reset, and time to...

If you are coming here to read this post, you probably notice that CybersecKyle looks a little different now. Actually, a lot different. I finally launched a redesign that has been bouncing around in my head for a while, and I wanted to write a proper post about why I changed it, what changed, and what I was trying...

I spent some time reading the 2026 Cyber Protect Report, and the biggest thing that stuck with me was not AI, nation-state actors, or some brand-new attack technique. It was the reminder that most organizations are still getting burned by the same old problems. Weak authentication. Slow patching. Overprivileged...

The tension I keep coming back to I recently read Joel’s post, “Unpolished human websites”, and it hit on something I think a lot of us who care about the independent web have felt for a while now. He is not wrong. Part of what makes personal websites interesting is that they still feel like a person made them. Not...