Wild to see a spin off I helped work on be skeeted about by the governor.

2026 CCDC Aftermath The 2026 season was my most involved season yet. Here's some thoughts from behind the curtain explaining some changes we made and documenting how the competition continues to evolve.

There we go. Got the last one done for now, can finally move onto another project while I have some questions out to some teams.

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How to Win CCDC: Scoring Most teams want to win, very few teams properly prioritize their activities to win. This article is meant to change that.

Hey look I can get one of these guys out before 1:30!

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A bittersweet announcement: I was impacted by the layoffs at Consumer Reports, alongside a number of extremely talented colleagues.

I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity and so proud of the work we did fighting for consumers and helping people stay safer online.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all my gender-spicy homies. I wish for your health and safety in these trying times.

Next up is scoring, incident response reports, then to cap the year, the retro. All coming soon™️

I broke out scoring and incident response reports into their own articles, and those are coming down the pipe. Next year though, I think I’ll probably end up breaking this out farther into a series of posts in and of itself so it’s a little more digestible.

How to Win CCDC: Dealing With Red Team Red Team is the Big Spooky Bad Guy who's here to mess up your weekend. How do you deal with them?

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You know, you’d think I’d learn to eventually send these out not at 1:30 in the morning, but that’s not the lesson for today me. Fortunately, this is done.

Real talk tho probably running shell whoami on a red team 😭

Sleep would be ideal but that just don’t happen around these parts.

Wedding planning is stressful af.

Man, I can tell I didn’t sleep well last night because I am having A Day with my brain firing on 2 cylinders.

Dude I was outside for 2 hours and I got a mild burn. What?

Turns out that a hand grenade doesn’t care what it’s attached to. One the pin is pulled, the results are the same. Who knew?

My theory is when hell freezes over

Awooooo

First red flag warning of the year.

1 update to CCDC blog to go, then I have a few to split out into their own independent posts. And the debrief for the year. Because *man* it has been a season.

But the Dow!

This will in no way Cause Problems

State colleges and university system is trying really really hard to get me to go back to school. NO! My debt is almost paid off. BACK. BACK I SAY.

Speaking of I have a copy of Terraforming Mars: Ares Expeditions to sell and Expeditions to sell. I like their respective cousins more.

TI4 is my league of legends.

I sold my copy of twilight imperium a few years ago and I just bought another copy because I age a love hate relationship with that game and apparently we’re on love.

Hello bun fren

Bbq beer time.

LinkedIn has figured out that I’m out of corporate land and in a startup now finally and the ads I’ve gotten over there have gotten *weird*

Landing page for CCDC content is done, but not live yet. And the competition overview page is currently WIP. Halfway done ish.

Now that CCDC is over it’s time for the yearly overhaul of that particular series of blogs.

We’re so cooked anyways we may as well enjoy it