Pi Agent: Ranger's Best Companion

September 26, 2026

A hands-on guide to the Pi agent: setup, prompts, AGENTS.md, skills and extensions, plus local versus cloud LLMs.

Local AI: A Practical Guide for Digital Rangers

September 11, 2026

A practical guide to running LLMs locally with Ollama, adding your own documents via RAG, and understanding how autonomous agents work.

The Silent Scout: Building a Low-Profile Digital Resilience Tool

January 09, 2026

How to build a cheap, expendable field-monitoring tool from ESP32 firmware and a Python dashboard, with the design reasoning behind it.

Protocol for Two: Building a Tactical Relationship System in a 4-Day Sprint

December 19, 2025

A case study of building and launching a relationship card-deck product in four days with AI, WordPress and a lean maker stack.

The Digital Survival Drive: Building an Autonomous Cyber-EDC

November 23, 2025

How to build an autonomous digital survival USB drive with Ventoy, Tails, Kali Linux, VeraCrypt, offline maps and data recovery tools.

The Modern Architect's Playbook: A Guide to AI-Assisted Development

October 16, 2025

A practical method for AI-assisted development: design the architecture first, then split roles between planning LLMs and an in-editor assistant.

Ignition Sequence: How to Flash MicroPython onto Your ESP32

August 11, 2025

A step-by-step guide to flashing MicroPython firmware onto an ESP32, using either the Thonny IDE or the esptool terminal.