Civic Tech
What Do You Owe Society? Building an Honest Lifetime Contribution Calculator
A calculator that weighs what society spent on you against what you gave back, year by year, with every assumption on show and no data kept.
Engineering
Real-world software engineering: production incidents and what they taught me, debugging war stories, building for enterprise readiness, and build logs from my own projects.
Side Projects
Last Words: Building an Online Table for Inventing (and Losing) a Language
A self-hostable web app for Dialect-style games: 3–5 friends invent a cut-off community's words, then decide which ones get lost.
Security
SentinelScan: A Practical Security Workbench for Homelabs and Small IT Teams
A self-hosted, pluggable security workbench that runs port, web, TLS and Docker checks in one place, so homelabs and small IT teams can scan regularly.
Engineering
My Palm-Sized Homelab: Docker, Traefik & Self-Hosted Services 🚀🏡
How I run a portfolio, blog, store and cloud storage from a palm-sized Ubuntu box with Docker Compose, Traefik, dynamic DNS and minimal port forwarding.
Engineering
When a MySQL Upgrade Nearly Took Us Down: Lessons from the Trenches
How a routine MySQL 5.7 to 8 upgrade caused a production outage, what went wrong, and the simple pre-upgrade practice that now keeps us safe.
Engineering
Building Trust through Transparent Engineering: A Journey to Enterprise Readiness
How we made an automation startup platform enterprise-ready with audit logging, stronger access control and Keycloak identity, without slowing the team.
Engineering
STRIDE Threat Model in the Secure Development Lifecycle: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to using the STRIDE threat model across the secure development lifecycle, with tools like Microsoft TMT and standards like ISO 27001.
Engineering
💻 “Works on My System” — An Engineer’s Most Dangerous Phrase
Why "works on my system" bugs happen, and the playbook we used to standardise developer environments so local, QA and production behave the same.
Engineering
🔍 The Hidden Enemy: Tackling “Too Many Open Files” Like a Pro
What the "too many open files" error really means, and a practical playbook to diagnose and fix file descriptor leaks in Node.js, Java and Python.