▮ Signal acquired · Node 1 · Angleton, TX · 24/7
Solo operator. Security, AI, embedded hardware — and a handful of stranger seeds. Thirty years of curiosity. Two of them spent going deliberately deep.
Who is operating this station
I have been in love with computers since 1995. That part isn't new. What's new is how seriously I decided to take it.
It started with a beige tower, MS-DOS, and the specific feeling that I had just acquired a superpower. Internet access arrived in 1997 and research mode never switched back off. By 1999 I was soldering modchips into game consoles; by 2000 I was the official, entirely unpaid IT department for everyone I knew. That went on for two decades — Windows, networking, and hardware problems that other people had already given up on.
The formal education and the security side of things came much later. I only started going properly deep around 2024 — labs, red and blue team exercises, then a real degree program. It's genuinely strange to look at how far that's moved in such a short span once the investment stopped being casual and started being deliberate.
I'm under no illusion that I've done more than scratch the surface. I've read enough and broken enough to know exactly how much is still out there. That's the part I like. I have never been more motivated than I am right now.
Everybody is a stacked version of themselves — every earlier release still in there underneath, patched over rather than deleted. The one writing these words is straight from the latest build. Best one yet. Not the last one.
And I'm not pointed at one thing. I've planted a number of seeds and I'm growing each of them into something different — a novel, a game, an iOS app, a honeypot, a broadcast network. Some of them will make it. All of them are teaching me something I couldn't have learned from the others. Channel 02 is the current programming schedule.
Five seeds · five channels · one operator
20:00Primetime
Network · flagship
A closed cable channel for makers. Pirate-radio energy, satellite-broadcast chrome, late-80s signal — a place where tinkerers, operators, techs, and hardware people make content for each other instead of for an algorithm. The station this whole site is modelled on.
Status In development Newest seed
21:00Feature
Fiction · novel
A thriller with occult machinery running underneath the ordinary. Written in the gaps between builds, and the only project here where the compiler is me.
Status Drafting Long form
22:00Interactive
JRPG · pixel art
A pixel-art JRPG built around Hermes Trismegistus, where alchemy is the combat system rather than the set dressing. Correspondences, transmutation, and the emerald tablet as a skill tree.
Status Prototyping Systems design
23:00Late
iOS · neural engine
Spam and spoof-call defense running entirely on the phone's neural processor. A brutally competitive category, so the differentiator is architectural: nothing leaves the device, no cloud lookup, no call metadata sold to anyone.
Status In build On-device only
02:00Overnight
Honeypot · live
A multi-faceted honeypot on a $5 VPS in Helsinki, operated day to day by my own AI agent. It triages what walks in the door, keeps its own notes, and costs less per month than a sandwich. Cheapest SOC on the internet.
Status Live · unattended $5 / month
Selected repositories · 34+ total, worked continuously
80+ feature pentesting firmware for the M5Stack Cardputer-Adv. WiFi, BLE, sub-GHz, 2.4GHz, LoRa, IR, BadUSB, signal replay — six themes and hat support.
SignalForgeRustLocal-first OSINT investigation workstation for graph-centric research, cyber analysis, journalism, and threat hunting.
LiNvidia-BroadcastPythonNvidia Broadcast for Linux — the feature Linux never got, rebuilt.
★ 15 hermes-advC++Hermes agent bridge for the Cardputer ADV — putting a real agent loop on a device that fits in a pocket.
★ 1 wargames-terminalHTMLA faithful terminal simulation of the WOPR computer from the 1983 film WarGames. CRT aesthetics, full dialogue tree, zero dependencies.
tracemapPythonOld-school traceroute, but on a map. Lists every IP you're currently connected to and where it physically sits.
brats_medical_segmentationPython3D U-Net for brain tumour segmentation, 85.51% Dice score on the BraTS 2021 dataset.
★ 1 5-dollar-socHTMLWhy I decided to get a $5 VPS — and why you should too. The Helsinki writeup.
★ 1 Blue-MeanieRustRust-based blue teamer. Defensive tooling that doesn't need a Python runtime.
STAN-LinguaPythonFastAPI translation microservice on Meta's NLLB-200 — detection, caching, glossaries, and tone rewriting. Enterprise capability without enterprise cost.
LLM-ThunderdomeTypeScriptAn arena for agents to run simulations against each other. Two agents enter.
sentinel-gateMakefile · CPre-host packet inspection system. Filtering before the host ever sees it.
Also in the log: ESP32 Marauder builds · AnarchyOS · ArcaneOS · osint85 · sleePY · ezdact · charmap · memtest · devmode
Full log ↗Credentials, coursework, and what's actually in the rack
In progress · Year 2
AAS, AI Software Engineering
Next · declared path
BS, Computer Science
Self-directed
Security track
Thirty years, logged in order
1995
Hours inside MS-DOS, early Windows, and basic programming. A game or two may have been played.
1997
Research mode activated. Never really deactivated.
1999
Started hacking and soldering gaming consoles — early proof that curiosity beats manuals.
2000
Became the official — and entirely unpaid — IT department for friends and family. Built a reputation one rescue at a time.
2005
Graduation money, every component hand-picked, every cable managed.
2009
Volunteered with Comcast restoring communications after Ike hit Houston. Learned how to rewire the world under pressure.
2000
—2020
Windows, networking, and hardware failures that most people had already written off. The unglamorous years that made everything after possible — and eventually got a name and a sign as Humble PC Repair.
2024
Intensive self-study through TryHackMe and KC7, daily labs, hands-on red and blue team exercises. The point where curiosity became a training program.
2025
AAS in AI Software Engineering. Security experience meets formal engineering, and the pace picks up sharply.
2026
4.0 GPA in year two, 34+ repositories under continuous work, a live honeypot in Helsinki, and a broadcast network in development. BS in Computer Science next.
Node 1 · End of transmission
CH 06 · Sign-off
Open to collaboration on security research, AI projects, embedded builds, and anything that belongs on a channel nobody else is broadcasting. If you're building something strange, I'd like to hear about it.
