AI
Exploring artificial intelligence, models, agents and practical applications.
Innovation lab / digital playground
THE LAB
EXPERIMENT/BUILD/BREAK/LEARN/IMPROVE
The Lab is where curiosity gets a terminal. It is where I document experiments, break things safely and turn technical questions into working answers.
Domains
Where the experiments happen
Automation
Connecting systems and building smarter workflows.
Infrastructure
Experimenting with Linux, Docker, VPS environments and self-hosted applications.
Networking
Understanding how systems communicate and connect.
Security
Ethical cybersecurity learning, authorised penetration-testing labs and security research.
Data
Building dashboards, databases, integrations and intelligence systems.
Log
Current experiments
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AIExperiment
Agentic Reporting Assistant
Testing whether an agent can draft a campaign performance narrative from structured data without inventing conclusions.
NetworkingBuilding
Home Lab Segmentation
VLANs, firewall rules and isolated subnets for lab traffic — learning network design by living with it.
SecurityResearch
Authorised Pen-Test Range
A closed, self-owned range for vulnerability research and defensive learning. Nothing outside the lab, ever.
InfrastructureIn Progress
Containerised Analytics Stack
Database, scheduler and BI layer running as containers with reproducible configuration.
AutomationLab Note
What API Rate Limits Teach You
Notes on retries, backoff and designing workflows that fail politely instead of silently.
DataCompleted
Unified Campaign Warehouse
A small warehouse pattern for combining platform exports into one queryable model.
Authorised, ethical and controlled
All cybersecurity and penetration-testing activity is performed in authorised, ethical and controlled lab environments, on systems I own or have explicit written permission to test.
Curious about an experiment?
If something in the log overlaps with what you're building, I'm happy to share what I've learned.