I Almost Fried My Home Lab Server Over an extra 32GB of RAM

Wazuh was eating 30GB. Fixing that nearly cost me the whole box.

Sep 22 • Day Johnson

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How I'd Approach College for Cybersecurity in 2026

The degree isn't the destination. Four years of evidence is.

Sep 14 • Day Johnson

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Stop Watching Cybersecurity Tutorials. Start Building These 5 Projects.

The summer project list I’d hand myself if I were starting over: network analysis, containers, password managers, Kubernetes, and a home SOC.

Sep 1 • Day Johnson

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August 2026

I Upgraded My Cybersecurity Homelab From Proxmox 8 to Proxmox 9

And almost broke everything...

Aug 21 • Day Johnson

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How I Access My Cybersecurity Homelab From Anywhere

No port forwarding, no exposed Proxmox, no exposed SSH. Just Tailscale, RustDesk, and a lesson I learned in a hotel room in D.C.

Aug 12 • Day Johnson

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Marriage Expanded My Attack Surface

Deploying Wazuh agents across every endpoint in the house: MacBooks, Proxmox, and a Windows box that almost didn’t make the video.

Aug 1 • Day Johnson

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July 2026

The Cost Of Ambition

What five months of unanswered questions taught me about ambition, faith, AI, and the edge that got me here.

Jul 21 • Day Johnson

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Claude Mythos, Project Glasswing, and the New Defender Advantage

This is truly the end of cybersecurity. Allegedly.

Jul 14 • Day Johnson

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April 2026

Are Humans Really the Weakest Link?

My attempt at dispelling this notorious rhetoric, and an introduction to human-centered security.

Apr 24 • Day Johnson

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November 2025

Cybersecurity Engineering Career Lessons You Won’t Get in Certification Courses

Lessons in Security Engineering from Jason Chan’s High-Velocity Framework (and My Own Battles in the Field).

Nov 21, 2025 • Day Johnson

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The 5 Cybersecurity Engineer Archetypes (and Why You Should Know Yours)

whoami?

Nov 15, 2025 • Day Johnson

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The Operational Cost of Cybersecurity

The Hidden Cost of optimizing for “More” instead of “Better”.

Nov 6, 2025 • Day Johnson

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