ShanKyTech

Writing

Original essays.
Nothing borrowed.

Three essays, one per domain: the network I attacked to learn to defend it, the protein I spent two years with, and the model that runs on a Mac mini and never leaves the house. Every word here will be mine.

Cybersecurity & networkingdraft in progress

Assume the LAN is hostile: what attacking my own network taught me about defending it

Kali on an isolated VLAN, OPNsense in the middle, Wireshark on the wire and Splunk on the domain controller — RDP, VPN, ARP spoofing, password sprays, and the controls that actually held.

Publishes here when it is done — not before.

Molecular biologydraft in progress

Two years with one protein: what AfrLEA6 taught me about keeping a record

Bench work on AfrLEA6 protein expression, written for people who have never held a pipette — what the question was, what the gel said, and why a failed run is still data.

Publishes here when it is done — not before.

AIdraft in progress

A private model on a Mac mini: why and how I run Ollama in the homelab

Why I wanted a model that never leaves the house, how it is set up on a Mac mini, and what it does for me day to day — drafting, summarising, reading runbooks — with nothing sent anywhere.

Publishes here when it is done — not before.