Why Home Lab Skills Matter More Than You Think
James Holloway
A few years back, I set up my first home lab. Nothing fancy—just an old desktop, a switch, and some spare hardware I had lying around. I wanted to experiment…
James Holloway
Why Police Coordination Gaps Are Making Cybercrime Easier Than Ever
I’ve spent enough time working in software engineering to know that systems fail when different teams don’t talk to each other. The same principle applies to law enforcement fighting cybercrime,…
When High-Profile Targets Get Breached: What the FBI Director Hack Tells Us About Account Security
A pro-Iranian hacking group recently claimed responsibility for compromising FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal account, posting years-old photos, documents, and personal information online. It’s the kind of headline that makes…
Why AI Disruption Is Actually a Wake-Up Call for Cybersecurity
Last week, I watched cybersecurity stock prices dip on news that Anthropic is working on yet another powerful AI model. The market reacted like someone had just announced a threat…
How AI is Quietly Reshaping the Tools We Use Every Day, Including Project Management
A couple of years ago, I was sitting in a planning meeting when someone mentioned using AI to help manage our Jira backlog. My first reaction? Skepticism. We’d been managing…
Cyber Warfare and Critical Infrastructure: What Happens When Real Wars Go Digital
A few years back, I was brought into a project to help harden our company’s network against what the security team called “state-level threats.” At the time, it felt a…
Why the Raspberry Pi Still Matters in the Age of Specialized AI Hardware
I’ve been working with Raspberry Pis since the original Model B came out, and I’ve watched the device evolve from a curiosity for hobbyists into something that actually gets deployed…
Understanding Home Labs: Why This Matters Beyond the Headlines
When I heard about the illegal bio lab discovered in the Las Vegas area, my first thought wasn’t about home labs in the tech sense—it was about how easily the…
Docker in Development: Building Reliable Systems Like a Hockey Team Builds Its Defense
When the Detroit Red Wings signed Jacob Bernard-Docker to a two-year extension, it got me thinking about something unexpected: how software architecture and team-building follow surprisingly similar patterns. Both require…
Why the Raspberry Pi Still Matters for Edge AI Projects
I’ve spent the last decade building systems on everything from enterprise servers to single-board computers. The Raspberry Pi keeps showing up in my projects for a good reason: it works,…