Welcome

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This is a space where I write about what I’m learning, building, and thinking about. If some of it proves useful to you as well, all the better.
I tend to write across a fairly broad range of topics:

• Engineering — tutorials, technical write-ups, and lessons from working in Security Engineering
• Life — parenting, split keyboards, car modifications, and the other hobbies that fill the gaps
• Health & Metaphysics — exploring what keeps us well, and what any of it ultimately means
• Whatever else comes to mind — reflections on the things happening around us

Writing helps me to think more clearly.
It forces structure onto half-formed ideas and turns passing thoughts into something more deliberate.
If it helps you clarify your own thinking — or sparks a conversation — that’s even better.

In many ways, I keep this site as a journal to myself. Years from now, I want to be able to look back at what I wrote and see who I was at that moment in time.
It’s a way of measuring growth — of noticing how my views shift, how my understanding deepens, and how experience reshapes me.
It may not be useful to everyone, but it is to me.

I’ve always believed in giving back.
I’m only where I am because others shared their knowledge, their time, and their patience with me.
If the next generation of thinkers and builders can learn something from my experiences — and then go on to surpass them — that feels like the right kind of progress.

So the articles that make their way from my mind to the page — published through the quiet magic of CI/CD — are here for you.
Take what’s helpful. Question what isn’t. Build on it.

I hope you find something here that sparks curiosity, creativity, or even just a moment of reflection.

— Rich