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Given the influx of LLM agent tooling, blog posts, guides, research, and explosion of takes, I wanted to capture my perspective of what I have been reading, seeing, and some experiments that I have been dabbling in or on.

Trading Learned Embeddings for Determinism and Speed in YAMS # YAMS started with a goal, experiment with a local memory system that was cli first, that reduced the amount of tokens it took models to find materials for a task.

It’s been about seven months since I last posted here (about YAMS), so I wanted to share a quick recap of what I’ve been up to.

My Resource Collection # A curated collection of technical resources, updated semi-regularly.

YAMS (Yet Another Memory System) started as a practical need: I wanted a dead-simple way to store and retrieve files, snippets, and research for LLM-driven workflows — without losing context between sessions.

So I wanted to post a follow-up to my previous introduction to the umbrix platform, where I was using DSPy for entity extraction in cyber threat intelligence.

Over the past month, I’ve been working on a project for the Google ADK agent hackathon.

Abbreviations Used # IMSI: International mobile subscriber identity RAN: Radio area network NGAP: Next-Generation Application Protocol GTP-U: GPRS tunneling protocol user plane I found it convenient to document and order 5G network attacks that I have come

I have used FreeBSD as a server on and off for a couple years.

Disclaimer: This post is being actively updated.

slides - video presentation Table of Contents # Introduction Mitigations and Trends Trends in Security Software In-Network Security Reflections Introduction # This presentation attempts to provide a quick and simple introduction to the next generation of…

Deconstructing Firewalls # Disclaimer: This post is being actively updated.

I spent the better part of my Friday night reinstalling my NAS server for homelab purposes.

At the conclusion of BSides Charlotte 2019, I realized that I would need to provide a bit more information in regards to the content that was covered in my slides especially for those who were unable to attend.

The beginning of a journey.