Notes

Things I've learned from the work: endpoint management, PowerShell, and the software I build. New notes most weeks. There is an RSS feed.

July 24, 2026

A one-command MECM lab, and why I stopped hydrating

Software spotlight: mecm-homelab builds a working ConfigMgr 2509 site from a bare Windows host in about an hour, tears it down provably, and rebuilds from cache. What that replaces, and who it's for.

July 22, 2026

Scraping 52 government websites that all publish differently

How It's Half-Staff Because keeps track of 52 government sources that move, duplicate, and quietly drop orders.

July 16, 2026

The LLM pipeline I forgot I shipped

I told my own editor my site had no AI in it. The code, the logs, and my hosting bill disagreed.