Tag: Apple

  • Hardware Wallet Recovery Mistakes in 2026

    Hardware Wallet Recovery Mistakes in 2026

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    The hardware wallet recovery mistake has become the loss the crypto holder has been quietly making, the loss the holder discovers the moment the holder tries to recover the wallet, the loss the recovery seed the holder thought was safe will not undo.

  • Hardware: The Quiet Death of Repair, and Why It Matters

    Hardware: The Quiet Death of Repair, and Why It Matters

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    The average American household owned 21 connected devices in 2024. The same household replaced a primary device every 2.7 years. The average lifespan of the discarded device was 4.1 years. We are replacing things before they break.

  • Building a Home Lab in 2026: What I Actually Use and What I Would Skip

    Building a Home Lab in 2026: What I Actually Use and What I Would Skip

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    The home lab used to be the server in the closet running the outdated workstation. The 2026 version sits as the mini PC under the desk, the small NAS in the cupboard, the smart switch that knows what each device is, the homelab that teaches the things the production environment never gets to teach.

  • The Raspberry Pi Cluster in Production in 2026

    The Raspberry Pi Cluster in Production in 2026

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    A Raspberry Pi cluster looks like a toy until you wire it into the production system. Then it becomes a piece of the production system, and the question of whether to use it stops being a question of whether it can do the work and starts being a question of whether you trust the hardware…

  • The Machine Identity Attestation Problem

    The Machine Identity Attestation Problem

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    Machine identity attestation in 2026 amounts to the work of knowing what every workload, every container, every service mesh identity, every machine credential, every certificate, every API token can do, who owns it, when it was last rotated, whether it sits still needed. Most enterprises in 2026 have not done this work. The 2026 guide…

  • State of Vibe Coding: Q1 2026

    State of Vibe Coding: Q1 2026

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    Vibe coding is the practice of letting an AI model generate the code, the developer pastes it in, runs it, ships it, and hopes. Andrej Karpathy named it in early 2025. By Q1 2026 it is no longer a curiosity. It is how a meaningful slice of greenfield software is being written, and the consequences…

  • The Firmware Attack Surface You Have Never Looked At

    The Firmware Attack Surface You Have Never Looked At

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    Every modern endpoint runs firmware that the operating system cannot see. The OS patch cadence is monthly. The firmware patch cadence is whenever the vendor bothers. Here is what is actually in your fleet, and what to do about it.

  • The Raspberry Pi in Production Is a Security Incident Waiting to Happen

    The Raspberry Pi in Production Is a Security Incident Waiting to Happen

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    The Raspberry Pi in a homelab is a learning tool. The Raspberry Pi in a production rack is an unmanaged device running unpatched firmware on the same network as the payment system. Here is what to do about it.

  • The Passkey Migration Is a Mess (And How to Fix It)

    The Passkey Migration Is a Mess (And How to Fix It)

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    Passkeys are the right answer to the password problem. The migration is full of edge cases the FIDO Alliance did not think through. Here is what is broken, and what the realistic path forward looks like.

  • The Incident Responder’s Playbook When Malware Hits

    The Incident Responder’s Playbook When Malware Hits

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    The first 60 minutes of a malware incident decide the next 60 days. Here is what the responder actually does, in order, with the tooling that holds up under pressure.