Notes

I see this playing out in the market right now. I get asked about attack paths more than anything else.

X may just very well become the everything app.

I agree with Lyman. People, even if not religious, should read the Bible to understand Western thinking and history.

“Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.”

The Grapes of Wrath

codex gpt-5.5 is really good at writing code and wicked fast, but boy, is the overall harness dumb about tool discovery and making sane decisions for a project. Claude Code is so much stronger at just being a smarter coding companion.

MCP or its next successor will overtake HTTP in how people consume data on the web. HTTP won't go away, as MCP will likely continue to ride its rails for a while to come, but the layer at which humans consume data over the internet will disappear behind agent protocols.

Starting a new book.

In sales, there are 2 things I know to always be true as the solutions engineer. Your sales person has a disease that prevents them from knowing how to check your calendar. The other is that a BDR/SDR has never found a camera that works.

A colleague once told me, "Don't make it hard for your customer to give you money." I'm trying to get rates for a HELOC. The number of banks that don't have basic contact information working or phone trees that route incorrectly is astounding. Ascend Federal Credit Union will just hang up on you. The local bank I called won't call me back. It's wild.

I have a coworker that pronounces Anthropic's Mythos model "me thos" and it cracks me up every time. They've had people try and correct them, and they don't care. Just totally doubled down on it at this point.

It's been my belief for some time that most sports are completely corrupt at some level. Not for every player, team, or game, but more than we'd care to accept.

I have a love/hate relationship with cybersecurity. I've loved the tech side of it since the early 90s when I first got into computers and hacking. I didn't actually get my first security role until much later in my career, having detoured through other adventures.

One of the biggest challenges I have now is that the cybersecurity space today doesn't feel at all like what it was when I was young. I don't mean in the tech sense; I always expected that to change. I mean in the culture sense.

I've gone to defcon, bsides, blackhat, etc and others and some of the time it feels right and other times I feel like an alien. Part of it is cultural/social. I don't really party and Vegas isn't my scene. I'm not a tattoo guy. I don't "look" the part. I understand that this space is a big tent and I'm painting with a broad brush but there's a stereotype that has been created and I think it's one I don't identify with at all.

There's plenty of nice people and many to learn from, but I rarely feel like I've found my tribe. It's an odd feeling.

I jumped to the vendor side a few years ago. I found a good home here. I get to still be technical but also get the social side of it. It has its own trade-offs. I still feel like an alien among the sales side some days too.

What I like probably most is the actual business of it. This is burying the lede a bit, but this is what I think I stumbled into almost by accident coming to the vendor side: seeing how security and business really meet.

I get annoyed by the white-knighting and crusading that occurs in the security space. It's often so divorced from how organizations and businesses work. There's a place for that conversation, but too often when I see the discourse around security, I think "none of these people have actually had to do this in real life with real people".

My son shooting a suppressor with subsonic .22 convinced me to go all in on them. Quieter than a BB gun.

I was recently chatting with a colleague about AI adoption. I mentioned that it’s circular. At first, the leading edge is just a demo, and people claim it can’t do real work. Then it gets better, and people say, well, it can’t scale. Then it gets better, and it scales, and then people say, well, it’s too expensive. Then it gets better, and it’s suddenly not expensive, and it starts again on the next thing. We are seeing this play out with AI a lot at the moment.

Our nation will come to greatly regret gambling laws changing and the ease and gamification of it on mobile devices. This will destroy many young people, especially.

Grrr. Auto refill on OpenAI didn't work, so API calls started failing.

Boris is making a case for new roles in a collapsed function post-AI workplace.

StarFox on the Switch 2!

Why does ProPresenter have to be such hot garbage on multi-monitors?!

I don’t think there are more than 5 songs from the last 25 years of Christian worship music publishing that are likely to endure. Modern Christian Music is not Lindy.

Probably the most telling experience I’ve seen over the last 25yrs has been the removal of the song books and hymnody of the last 200yrs. Since really the 90s on, it’s been a large push to modernize music. It seems to have failed.

In our church there has been a routine of singing modern worship songs followed by one or two more traditional songs. The audience response is palpable. It’s an immediate difference.

It’s not my goal to disparage attempts at new songs but the systems in place to do it are largely not working.

I suspect in another 30-40 years we will still know the songs of the 1800-1900s far more than those of the early to mid 2000s.