From Bus Stops to Endpoints: Lessons in Reliability

I’ve always hated standing at a bus stop without knowing when the next one was coming. Years ago, I solved that problem for myself by building an iPhone widget that displayed real-time SEPTA bus times right on my home screen (writeup here). It worked perfectly, but unfortunately the App Store fees weren’t worth keeping it alive. DIY IoT Solution ...

September 30, 2025

Deploying Custom Apps with Intune via Win32

Testing Win32 app deployment in Intune using 7-Zip as a custom installer. A hands-on homelab experiment in automation and detection logic.

September 23, 2025

Setting up a Homelab for Endpoint Engineering

I’ve wanted to really understand Microsoft’s cloud stack for a while, but reading docs and watching tutorials only gets you so far. Things are always shifting: product name changes, services getting folded into one another, best practices evolve. Before long, everything you just learned is out of date. So I decided to stop reading about it and start doing. I’m building this homelab as my sandbox where I can try, break, rebuild, and finally, understand what works (and why). ...

September 19, 2025