Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Why This Tiny Computer Changed Everything for Me
Sarah Mitchell
About three years ago, my partner handed me a small circuit board roughly the size of a credit card and said, “Try this.” I had no idea what I was…
Sarah Mitchell
Why NIST Cybersecurity Standards Matter More Than You Think (And What Microsoft’s Quantum Push Means)
Last month, I was scrolling through my news feed when I saw Microsoft making headlines about their Quantum Safe Program. My first thought? Good. Finally, someone’s taking this seriously. But…
Why 2026 Is Proving to Be Comedy Gold on Television
I’ve been watching TV for a long time—probably too long, if I’m being honest—and I can tell you that finding genuinely great shows gets harder every year. There’s so much…
Docker: Why I Finally Stopped Overspending on My Development Setup
Last year, I made a confession to a fellow developer over coffee: I’d wasted nearly $2,000 on software licenses, virtual machines, and cloud services that I didn’t actually need. We…
When CCTV Catches the Crime: What the Silverstone Helmet Theft Tells Us About Security in 2024
A few days ago, I stumbled across a story that got me thinking about security in ways I hadn’t expected. At Silverstone Circuit, someone walked off with Red Bull STEMx…
Docker and umbrelOS: Making homelab setup actually enjoyable
I’ll be honest—when I first heard about Docker, I thought it was unnecessarily complicated. All those containers, images, and terminal commands felt like they belonged in a world reserved for…
Why Throwing Money at Cybersecurity Won’t Solve Your Real Problem
I had coffee with a friend last week who works in finance, and she told me about something that still bothers me. Her company had just been hit with a…
Docker and AI Agents: Containing Your Costs Before They Spiral Out of Control
Last month, I watched a friend’s OpenAI bill hit $847 in a single week. Not because she was running some massive production system, but because she’d deployed an AI agent…
When Photo Editing Becomes Political: What Deleted Images Really Tell Us
Here’s something that happened recently that made me stop and think: White House officials deleted photographs from a state fair event after some complaints about crowd sizes. Now, this might…
When the Line Between Conviction and Cash Gets Blurry
A few years ago, I wrote about cryptocurrency skeptics. Not the people who think blockchain is overrated—I mean the genuine doubters. The ones who openly mocked digital assets as schemes…