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Mar 6

I Moved From OpenAI ChatGPT to Anthropic Claude

And Refused to Leave Two Years of Thinking Behind

Flashy digital illustration of an AI data pipeline. On the left, a ChatGPT interface feeds a colorful stream of ‘Two Years of Chats’ through a ‘Parsing’ engine. On the right, the data is organized into a ‘Personal Data Lake’ stored in Couchbase and connected to the Claude AI interface.”

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Feb 27

Quantifying Control and Governance

A MEDDPICC Lens on HashiCorp Terraform

Quantifying Control and Governance

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Feb 27

Quantifying Trust and Control

A MEDDPICC Lens on HashiCorp Vault

Quantifying Trust and Control

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Nov 21, 2025

🧭 Turning Trust Into Zero Trust

What Happens When Terraform, Vault, Boundary, Verify, and OpenShift Work as One

A wide cinematic 8K image of a calm, non-human cyborg standing alone on a cliff at dawn. The sky shifts from deep cobalt blue to warm golden amber, symbolizing the movement from uncertainty to clarity. The cyborg’s smooth metallic armor reflects both colors, with a faint internal glow in its chest and joints. Mist rolls across distant hills, and soft light breaks through the horizon, creating an atmosphere of balance, restoration, and quiet confidence.

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Dec 10, 2025

Resisting the Easy Path: A Personal Note on Resilience in Tech

Why I keep building, breaking, and rebuilding systems long after the demo is “good enough.”

Resisting the Easy Path: A Personal Note on Resilience in Tech

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2d ago

I Took Terraform Out of My Vault Lab.

Then It Grew to Eight VMs.

I Took Terraform Out of My Vault Lab.

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2d ago

I Built the Same Vault Lab Twice.

The Answer Was Both.

I Built the Same Vault Lab Twice.

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5d ago

My HashiCorp Vault PKI Lab Serves Its Own Certificate

and Replaces It Every Ten Minutes…

My HashiCorp Vault PKI Lab Serves Its Own Certificate

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6d ago

AirLock: The Hard Part of Vault Secret Migration

How I designed a controlled plaintext boundary for static secrets that genuinely have to move

Graphite-pencil illustration of a narrow isolated AirLock chamber transferring non-regenerable static state between two independent Vault trust domains, with separate reader, writer, verifier and attestor authorities, transient protected material inside a disposable worker boundary, and an immutable value-free proof awaiting a final freshness check.

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Oct 3

Ten Everyday Problems Where Vault Belongs in the Answer

I built one Vault platform on a laptop to answer every question at once.

At dusk, an operator with a mug in hand looks out from a calm operations room over a server hall where every rack carries a small amber token light, with the glass-walled issuing room glowing amber at the centre and an empty key board with dust outlines in the foreground.

Raymon Epping

Raymon Epping

I write about AI, infrastructure automation, and the boundaries that make autonomy trustworthy. Ideas tested through hands-on work.

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