Development

Understanding Ansible Semaphore by Building a Hardening Audit Pipeline with Lynis, and Prometheus

1030 words·5 mins

Development Infrastructure Linux Sysadmin

Building an automated Linux hardening audit pipeline using Ansible Semaphore, Lynis, and Prometheus

An Agentic Workflow for YARA-L: Automatic Rule Generation with Gemini CLI and Chronicle

2147 words·11 mins

Projects AI Development Infrastructure LLM

This is a small framework I put together to generate YARA-L detection rules with an LLM in a self-correcting feedback loop. It aims at automating Detection Engineering for Google SecOps (Chronicle)

Architecture overview: Designing a Self-Managing Linux Fleet

1499 words·8 mins

Projects Development Infrastructure Network Architecture

I needed an All-Terrain Linux fleet that could take care of itself: configure, monitor, patch, and protect itself across any environment. This post covers the architecture I designed to make that happen.

Agentic Sysadmin. No Playbooks, No YAML

1343 words·7 mins

Projects AI Development Infrastructure LLM

This post shows the minimal proof of concept SSH tool I built for Opencode AI, and how it could be used to “talk to” remote machines.

Firewall Inception: My pfSense Lab with Proxmox, Cloudflared, and Tailscale

2653 words·13 mins

Projects AI Development Infrastructure Cloud Programming

A simple pfSense ACL project turned into a homelab adventure: Proxmox networking, Cloudflared proxying, and Tailscale inception for remote access.

Coding with AI: faster than ever, but a bit dumber. MIT explains why

1009 words·5 mins

AI LLM Programming Golang Development

I used AI to learn Golang in 2025. I was faster than ever, but couldn’t remember what I’d written. A recent MIT study explains why.

Who's monitoring my monitoring Infrastructure? Desigining for observability with Grafana stack

1922 words·10 mins

Projects Network Development Cloud Infrastructure Cybersecurity

In this post, I go through the design process of setting up a monitoring stack with Grafana and Prometheus, along with a couple of Prometheus custom node exportes, inside a Tailscale network, to monitor a SIEM collection infrastructure stack. Link to Github repository: Argandov/Engineering-Patterns Monorepo for a collection of infrastructure & automation patterns for different purposes. Python 1 0

My Current Workflow

663 words·4 mins

Development HomeLab Workflow

My current workflow and overall setup in Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Red Team Phishing infrastructure + payload setup

2577 words·13 mins

AWS Projects Blue Development HomeLab Infrastructure Pentesting Red Team Cybersecurity

Buildout of an OSPEC prepared Phishing infrastructure as well as FUD decoys and payloads.

Termbot Use Cases

595 words·3 mins

AI LLM Development Projects Reference

Useful ways to leverage Termbot as a Linux CLI LLM tool. From piping/redirecting stdout to reading text from local files, it allows for several combinations of “data chaining”

About Weaver

339 words·2 mins

Projects Development AI LLM

Weaver is a tool I made for extracting saved acticles from pocket , with a specific tag, and summarize them with OpenAI GPT-4. This way I can save blog posts, documentation, etc. And periodically use Weaver to extract summaries of all of them at once.

Termbot

360 words·2 mins

Projects AI Development LLM

Termbot is a command-line interface tool for conveniently interacting with OpenAI’s GPT-X or Groq’s natural language processing system, directly from your terminal. It allows the user to use standard ChatGPT-like question/answer functionality, with added flexibility such as interacting with local file contents, sending large data from STDIN, using custom local instructions, and more.

PNG to Favicon.ico with ffmpeg

134 words·1 min

Web Website Development Linux Tools Reference

Quick how-to: Create favicon.ico from PNG by using FFMPEG

A proposed new way of reading books

252 words·2 mins

Personal Development

Of all the reading techniques and tips I’ve seen and tried over the years like Speed reading techniques, Feynman Technique, Flash Cards / Notecards, etc. Nothing has actually sticked with me. Here, I proposed a new way, that has helped me develop a deeper comprehension and higher engagement while reading.

YAVG: Yet Another Vim Guide

1539 words·8 mins

Vim Linux Shell Bash Development Setup Programming Reference

Spending some time learning Vim to save time

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