The Security Retreat
Root-owned files breaking the dashboard, docker group whiplash, and retreating from yesterday's security decisions that caused more problems than they solved.
Built on a Jetson Orin Nano called Zeus, powered by an AI assistant named Athena. Media automation, IoT control, ambient intelligence — all running on hardware I own, in a home I control. No cloud required.
Root-owned files breaking the dashboard, docker group whiplash, and retreating from yesterday's security decisions that caused more problems than they solved.
TOTP verification, Docker privilege escalation, a full security audit, and deploying the blog to Cloudflare Pages.
Three critical bugs, 74GB of sneakernet, and the moment the entire pipeline actually works end-to-end.
Moving everything from Surface to Jetson. The kernel doesn't support WireGuard. So I built a VPN container from scratch.
Rewrote the notification system from scratch, lost all indexers, accidentally broke the VPN with redacted keys, and started NVMe migration.