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Liberating DomKirby.com From WordPress

Mar 7, 2026

> I’ve been using WordPress since before it had a sidebar. I can’t exactly piece together when I started, but I think it was in 2008 or so. Three different defa...

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My 2026 Cyber and Other Predictions

Dec 23, 2025

It’s hard to believe 2025 is already wrapping. As is pseudo-tradition, I wanted to share a couple of thoughts on how I think 2026 will go and review my original...

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My AI Assisted Blog Writing Workflow

Dec 10, 2025

I figured we would take a little bit of a side quest for a moment on AI. I’ve written a couple of “you’re not AI ready” posts, and I stand by that. However, tha...

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About That Tech Debt

Dec 9, 2025

In my last post, I talked about the “agent hype” we’re all dealing with. The pressure to leverage AI when AI might not be the right solution for the presented p...

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AI is Slowing you Down

Dec 8, 2025

Click bait title is click bait, but I have a point here. AI is our new obsession, and the current demand is for “agents.” Agents are going to change the world t...

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Entra Synced Passkeys and Passkey Profiles

Dec 6, 2025

At Ignite, Microsoft announced that Synced Passkeys would become available in Entra. My initial reaction to this was that it was a terrible idea. However, I've ...

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Yes – You Should Consider BitLocker PINs

Oct 2, 2025

In case you don’t know, BitLocker is the disk encryption feature within Windows (including Windows Client and Server). Its job, in a nutshell, is to manage key ...

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Windows Hello IS MFA

Sep 23, 2025

There’s a long-standing debate sort of storming the security community that seems to refuse to die: is Windows Hello, Apple Touch ID, or Android’s credentialing...

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Nobody Cares About Your Tech Stack

Aug 26, 2025

The almighty tech stack. The best EDR, rock solid email security. “Enterprise technology for the SMB.” I could go on for a while with all the clichés, and I use...

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Windows is a Mess

Jul 19, 2025

I've been a Windows user for as long as I've been a computer user for the most part. I've dabbled in Mac, used plenty of Linux distros. But, day-to-day, I still...

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Communicating Outages Out of Band

Mar 4, 2025

Over the weekend (on 3/1 to be exact), there was a significant outage at Microsoft impacting primarily Exchange Online but also some other services. Even though...

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Let's Stop Device Code Phishing!

Feb 17, 2025

Device code phishing is a real threat that often goes unmitigated. Microsoft's recent warning that threat actor Storm-2372 is actively executing a device-code p...