Remembering The Class of 2006
"It really whips the llama's ass."
The Paranoid~RV
40ft of Infrastructure. Zero Fixed Addresses. 100% Self Hosted SOC. 100% DIY+AI. *Ice Cold Beer*
Latest posts
Nobody's Reviewing Your Robot's PRs
The industry just figured out AI agents lie about their own work. In a homelab, there's nothing between the lie and your infrastructure.
Rebuilding the Hull at Sea
The box that ran everything was dying. So we moved the ship... while it was still sailing.
Everything's Green Cap…
Your AI says the job is done. Your container says it is running. Your firewall says it is up. All three are lying, and the green light is the most dangerous output in your stack.
The Habit That Was The Bug
When the manual fix becomes muscle memory, the failure has already won. A teaching piece on the OpenSnitch docker-proxy PID rotation problem, why every obvious fix is wrong, and the watchdog pattern that ends it.
Running on Fumes
If you noticed I went quiet, you noticed right. When I started publishing under this brand I came out hot, full-on Weaponized ADHD™ . One year after winning the RIF award from my previous company, I had a renewed energy and excitement about technology. A new fire had erupted
The Whole Point
The visit happened because there was time for it to happen.
Beside Myself at BSides OK
Show up. Be useful. Be memorable. Be yourself. Don't be an ASS. The hallway track is where parallel paths
The Dunning–Kruger effect
AI does 70% of the work. Research. Drafting. Analysis. Options generation. It's good at that. Genuinely good. Better than most humans at raw throughput... But the 30%... the decisions, the judgment, the voice, the risk acceptance... that's where every single failure in this project was caught.
A.I.laddin's Lamp
You know the story. Guy finds a lamp. Rubs it. Genie comes out. Three wishes. The genie grants every wish with surgical precision... and the guy ends up worse than when he started.
The Locksmith's Apprentice
A locksmith's apprentice installs a door with no lock. That's embarrassing. Now imagine the apprentice works for the company that invented the lock. That's what happened to my data. For eleven days.
WTFM: Write The F***ing Manual
My AI killed my WiFi. Not metaphorically. Not "degraded performance." It unloaded both wireless drivers — the active one and the fallback — before downloading the replacement. In that order. While the replacement was on GitHub. Which requires... WiFi. The console went dark. I'm standing in
The Wins Were Hiding in the Losses
Power surge hit the RV park. 47 containers back in five minutes. The stack came back stronger.
Project Battleship
Build Journal — Article 14 Project Battleship How I Hardened 28 Containers in a Single Day with AI and a Very Long Night This morning I had 28 Docker containers with zero security hardening. Tonight I have a warship. 2026-03-26  |  Chris Sholmire  |  The Paranoid~
The Door Was Open
You didn't find this by accident. You found it the way you find everything worth finding — sideways. A link in a comment. A handle you didn't recognize. A bio that said something about an RV and a security operations center and you thought that can't be real.