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Occasional writing on digital forensics, information security, product strategy, and the practical realities of building AI systems.
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Launching this site as a home for notes on digital forensics, information security, product strategy, and AI.
announcementsSoftware Factories Without the Buzzword: Full-Lifecycle Development at Whatever Scale Fits
The phrase of the season, stripped of buzzwords. What a software factory really is, who actually needs one, and why a single laptop can run one.
AI systemsagentsengineeringAI Software Development Skills: Teaching Your Agent How to Build
After configuration comes process: four structured skill sets that teach agentic AI how to run a software project, and how to choose the one that fits you.
AI systemsagentsengineeringTechno Security West 2026: AI, the Dark Web, and Ghost Machines
Three days in San Diego: agentic AI investigations, ghost machines hiding inside compromised hosts, preserving AI prompts as evidence, and what the dark web actually is.
digital-forensicsconferencesaiosintConfiguration Is the Other Half of the Prompt: Preparing Agentic AI for Success
Why a bare prompt is never enough: how configuration files like SOUL.md, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md, plus skills, decide whether agentic AI actually delivers. Good and bad examples included.
AI systemsagentsengineeringProgramming in the Age of AI
AI changes how developers work, but production-quality software still requires engineering judgment, testing, and human oversight.
aisoftware-developmentprogrammingCome Find Me at Techno Security West
I'll be at the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Diego, October 20-22. If you're there, come say hello.
digital-forensicsconferencesannouncementsFrom Scorched Earth to Precision: A History of Selective Extraction in Digital Evidence
How digital forensics moved from imaging everything to collecting with intent, and why hashing alone was never enough without trusted timestamps.
forensicsdigital-evidenceaff4timestampsMoving Beyond the Prompt Box: How AI Agent Harnesses Turn Chat Advice into Real Work
From conversational advice to bounded execution: the tools, architectures, and economics of modern agent harnesses for engineering teams and small business operations.
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