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Hi, I'm Mac — an infrastructure and DevOps engineer with a security background, based in Baltimore. By day I wrangle Ansible playbooks and CI pipelines; by night I break things in my home lab.

This is where I word-dump about whatever's got my attention: infrastructure-as-code, security, self-hosting, and the occasional detour into something with zero technical value.

Fair warning: this place is an echo chamber. Population: me — every post reviewed, approved, and enthusiastically agreed with by its sole author. Want to break the cycle? That's what the comments are for.

You can find my code on GitHub and my movie opinions on Letterboxd .

Latest posts

Cybersploit:1

A walkthrough of the Vulnhub machine Cybersploit:1
University Capstone Project: Post-Implementation Report

Essay for my final semester at university where I had to report the outcomes of an IT Project with hard deliverables
University Capstone Project: Project Proposal

Essay for my final semester at university where I had to propose an IT Project with hard deliverables
RickdiculouslyEasy:1

A simple walkthrough of a capture the flag machine on Vulnhub
Letterboxd Watchlist Picker

A python script to pick a random movie from a user's watchlist on Letterboxd

Recent projects

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Self-hosted Matrix with Ansible

Infrastructure-as-code for a private Matrix/Synapse homeserver. Still in progress.
Watchtower

A security posture dashboard that blends Qualys and Huntress data into one grade per client.

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