// Security Engineering Field Notes

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• Understanding Ansible Semaphore by Building a Hardening Audit Pipeline with Lynis, and Prometheus

  DevelopmentInfrastructureLinuxSysAdmin
  Dec 2025
• An Agentic Workflow for YARA-L: Automatic Rule Generation with Gemini CLI and Chronicle

  ProjectsAIDevelopmentInfrastructureLLM
  Dec 2025
• Architecture overview: Designing a Self-Managing Linux Fleet

  ProjectsDevelopmentInfrastructureNetworkarchitecture
  Nov 2025
• Agentic Sysadmin. No Playbooks, No YAML

  ProjectsAIDevelopmentInfrastructureLLM
  Nov 2025
• Firewall Inception: My pfSense Lab with Proxmox, Cloudflared, and Tailscale

  ProjectsAIDevelopmentInfrastructureCloudProgramming
  Aug 2025
• Building a Remote SDR “Observatory” with Proxmox and Tailscale

  sdrrfLinuxaerospaceradioHomeLabProjects
  Aug 2025
• Linux Iptables quick reference

  LinuxterminalshellfirewallReferenceNetworkNetworking
  Jul 2025
• MacOS Setup for Efficiency | Part 1: Raycast

  SetupMacOSProductivityReference
  Jun 2025
• Coding with AI: faster than ever, but a bit dumber. MIT explains why

  AILLMProgrammingGolangDevelopment
  Jun 2025
• Bash History Expansion and Prompt Magic

  LinuxscriptingProgrammingterminalbashshell
  Jun 2025
• DoS by playing Janet Jackson: CVE 2022‑38392

  VulnerabilitiesCVEJanetJacksonMusicside-channel
  Jun 2025
• Booting a private AWS EC2 instance with Tailscale

  TailscaleAWSServerSysAdminNetworkReference
  Jun 2025
• Debian Linux Post-installation setup

  LinuxSetup
  Jun 2025
• Who's monitoring my monitoring Infrastructure? Desigining for observability with Grafana stack

  ProjectsNetworkDevelopmentCloudInfrastructurecybersecurity
  Jun 2025
• My Current Workflow

  DevelopmentHomelabWorkflow
  May 2025
• ☕️ Cold Brew Recipe

  RecipeRandom
  May 2025
• Logs as Code: Building Iris

  ProjectsCloudSecurity
  Apr 2025
• SSH Tunneling and Port-Forwarding guide

  sshReferencenetworkingsecurityport-forwardingtunnelinglinuxsysadmin
  Apr 2025
• Red Team Phishing infrastructure + payload setup

  AWSProjectsBlueTeamDevelopmentHomeLabInfrastructurePentestingRedTeamcybersecurity
  Feb 2025
• Termbot Use Cases

  AILLMDevelopmentProjectsReference
  Jan 2025
• CSPM Pt 1 Deepfence Threatmapper Installation & Tests

  ProjectsAWSCloudHomeLabInfrastructureNetworkingcybersecurity
  Aug 2024
• Azure Service Principal Automation

  AzurePowerShell
  May 2024
• About Weaver

  ProjectsDevelopmentAILLM
  May 2024
• Termbot

  ProjectsAIDevelopmentLLM
  Mar 2024
• SSH Config File - Quick Connection

  LinuxShellSysAdmin
  Feb 2024
• PNG to Favicon.ico with ffmpeg

  webWebsiteDevelopmentLinuxtoolsReference
  Feb 2024
• Active Directory Houndsquad

  Active DirectoryWindowsPentesting
  Oct 2023
• Setting up TLS in MS Windows RDP

  Active DirectoryPKIWindows
  Feb 2023
• A proposed new way of reading books

  PersonalDevelopment
  Dec 2022
• CTF Writeup - Breaching AD

  Active-DirectoryMicrosoftPentestingCTF
  Jul 2022
• CTF Writeup - Zerologon Exploitation

  PentestingVulnerabilities - CTF
  Jun 2022
• CTF Writeup - Tech Support

  CTFWriteupPentesting
  Apr 2022
• CTF Writeup - Intrusion Detection

  PentestingCTF
  Apr 2022
• CTF Writeup - LOLBAS

  CTFMicrosoftPentesting
  Apr 2022
• CTF Writeup - Brainpan

  CTFWriteupbuffer-overflow
  Apr 2022
• Linux User switching with their own password

  ReferenceLinuxSysAdmin
  Sep 2021
• Running NetworkMiner on Linux

  ReferenceLinuxForensicsNetwork
  Aug 2021
• CTF Writeup - Alienphish Challenge

  CTFForensics
  Apr 2021