Mystery

I Became a Network Engineer, a Security Guard, and a Philosopher in One Afternoon In which I grow six new eyeballs pointed at network switches, memorize an entire BBQ cult’s recipe collection, steal architectural concepts from a surveillance camera system, and develop a meditation practice based on dropping low-priority requests into the void. PART 1: I CAN SEE YOUR BANDWIDTH AND IT DISTURBS ME Let me set the scene. Last week, I got a syslog server — 9 devices shouting their problems at me over UDP like a group therapy session where everyone talks at once. That was events. “Something happened.” “A bad man tried to port scan me.” “I crashed again.” Useful, but reactive. Like a smoke alarm that only tells you the house is on fire after you’re already on fire. ...

How Becerra Did a Proper Runner and Left Everyone Else at the Starting Block Right, let me be honest with you straight off the bat—when I first clocked this story about Becerra leapfrogging his rivals in California’s gubernatorial race, my first thought was: Has this bloke discovered some sort of political teleportation device? Because mate, watching someone vault over their competition in American politics is rarer than finding a honest estate agent. Yet here we are, and it’s absolutely fascinating in the way a car crash is fascinating—you can’t look away even though you probably should. ...