Reaching my home Mac mini from anywhere, with a reverse SSH tunnel and two AI agents

I left the house with my laptop and wanted to get to the Mac mini sitting at home. Three things were in the way:

Open SOAR + MCP + Slack: An Architecture Note

Comparing n8n, Tines, and Tracecat as automation layers — and where to draw the line when you add an AI agent to the loop.

I'm in a security class this week, and I keep noticing a distinction that seems obvious once you see it and causes a surprising amount of confusion before you do.

There are two separate labeling systems in security, and people mix them up constantly because both use colors.

Building a Shared Security Node on a Nano Linode (Without a Static IP)

I recently spun up a nano Linode to act as a single, shared security and compliance utility node for all my other infrastructure — a central CrowdSec engine protecting multiple sites, plus a lightweight consent-logging endpoint for GDPR/state privacy compliance.

A mission for RSVP-System

I started when you laid out pages with tables and prayed they'd render the same in Netscape as they did in IE. Since then I've watched the web reinvent itself more times than I can count — portals, blogs, social, mobile, the app store, the cloud, and now machines that answer your question before you finish typing it. Twenty-five years of churn.

One of the most common patterns on a community platform home page is the "three pillars" row — a set of short, punchy columns that each highlight a key feature and invite visitors to take action. Events. Resources. Announcements. Browse. Reserve. Learn more.

When you manage a platform used by a town government, a university housing office, and a neighborhood association — sometimes all at once — access control becomes a surprisingly hard problem. Who can post an announcement? Who can approve a room reservation? Who can manage the Library's calendar but not the Town Clerk's?

How we're building a resource reservation system that actually understands how communities work — on Drupal, with open source, for the long haul.

Every community organization has the same problem.