Vintage Porsche, Modern Safety

...the slippery slope...

I wrote an article titled Vintage Porsche, Modern Safety for the July 2020 issue of The NOR'EASTER, a magazine written, edited, and published by the Northeast Region of the Porsche Club of America. You can read this article in the digital edition of the July 2020 issue …

Weber Carburetor - Repairing a Leaking Accelerator Pump

Early Porsche 911 were equipped with Weber triple throat carburetors, specifically 40IDA3C. Many owners choose to remove the electronic fuel injection systems found on cars manufactured after 1973 in favor of installing carburetors.

The accelerator pump covers on these carbs are cast zinc and over time warp, often due to …

Attending Your First HPDE

And so it begins...

I wrote an article titled Attending Your First HPDE (And so it begins...) for the June 2020 issue of The NOR'EASTER, a magazine written, edited, and published by the Northeast Region of the Porsche Club of America. You can read this article in the digital edition …

User Training: A Low-Tech Solution to Phishing

This article was originally posted to the Strongarm blog in 2017 and has been reposted here on my personal site. Many of the links and resources are broken, but the content is still valid.

Early in my career, I was an active naysayer against “security awareness training.” The idea that …

Password Best Practices from the Security Professionals

This article was originally posted to the Strongarm blog in 2017 and has been reposted here on my personal site. Many of the links and resources are broken, but the content is still valid.

As we’ve explained before, attackers generally want one of two things when they attack you …

Learning to Weld

I've always had an interest in welding and metal fabrication, especially as tools used to restore and customize cars. I took a 10 week introductory welding class last fall. Below are my unedited notes and pictures from each week.

I'm taking a beginner welding class at the local vocational school …

Onboarding Engineers

Percipient Networks sponsored DjangoCon 2015. While there, I proposed a lightning talk on onboarding engineers. Due to time I was not able to actually present. However, the content is available on GitHub including a rendered PDF of the slides.

Boston Python - Twisted Concepts & Patterns

Patrick Cloke and I recently gave a talk at Boston Python meetup about the Twisted Networking Framework. It was an introductory to intermediate level talk based on our experiences using Twisted at Percipient Networks.

The slides and example code are available on GitHub. There is a rendered PDF for convenience …