IT and infrastructure pro in Boise, Idaho, who builds with AI. I ship privacy-first software, dig into security, and write about what I learn.https://www.kennethlacroix.me/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/moonlander-enhanced/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/moonlander-enhanced/A browser remake of the 1979 Atari Lunar Lander that turned into real orbital physics, historic Apollo missions, and an AI Theater where you watch a neural net learn to land in real time. Built with AI, for fun.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalAIvibe codinggamesTypeScriptreinforcement learninghttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/using-ai-without-losing-yourself/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/using-ai-without-losing-yourself/I use AI every day and I'm genuinely optimistic about it. This is the honest version — what the research really says about AI and our brains, the environment, and the quiet ways it flatters us — and how I use it so it sharpens my thinking instead of replacing it.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalAIresearchcritical thinkingproductivityenvironmenthttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/generalists-edge/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/generalists-edge/I'm a generalist, not a specialist — and for the first time that feels like an advantage instead of an apology. How AI changed what one IT person can actually do in a day.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalAIITinfrastructurecareergeneralisthttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/lazy-sunday-site-rebuild/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/lazy-sunday-site-rebuild/How I went from a templated Wix site to an owned, fast, markdown-native stack — thought to design to a live cutover — in about a day, with AI as the pair programmer and me making the calls.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalAIvibe codingAstroCloudflareWixwebhttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/moodhaven-pentest/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/moodhaven-pentest/An authorized, ten-round penetration test of MoodHaven Journal — 65+ targets, 41 confirmed-and-fixed vulnerabilities, and the bespoke tooling it took to prove the encryption actually holds.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalsecuritypentestAIencryptionRustTauriMoodHavenhttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/android-pentest-rooted/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/android-pentest-rooted/The unrooted phone told us our encryption held. Root let us check whether we were telling ourselves the truth. We weren't, entirely — and that was the point.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalsecurityandroidreverse-engineeringTauripentesthttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/android-pentest-unrooted/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/android-pentest-unrooted/A weekend attacking my own encrypted journaling app. The only foothold I got was my own debug build, my standard MITM playbook failed completely, and figuring out why taught me the most.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalsecurityandroidpentestTaurimobilehttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/change-password-rotation/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/change-password-rotation/Crash-safe master-password rotation in a zero-knowledge journaling app: re-encrypting across two layers and two runtimes with a single atomic flip a kill -9 can't corrupt.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalsecurityencryptionRustTauriMoodHavenhttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/seven-months-of-vibe-coding/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/seven-months-of-vibe-coding/Building MoodHaven Journal from scratch as a non-developer — zero-knowledge encryption, a Wear OS companion, peer sync, and what it actually takes to learn while you ship.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalAIvibe codingprivacyTauriRustMoodHavenhttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/borahs-crucible/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/borahs-crucible/A predawn dream of falling, a feather caught on Chicken-Out Ridge, and what Mount Borah burned away over 13 hours and 5,062 feet.Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTRamblingsmountainsendurancereflectionhttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/borah-things-spoke/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/borah-things-spoke/An account of an early-morning, first-major-mountain ascent of Idaho's Borah Peak, and the people, fears, and lessons the mountain revealed along the way.Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTRamblingsmountainsreflectionhttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/borah-humble-beginnings/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/borah-humble-beginnings/It all starts with a Big Hairy Dream (BHD) and ends with a thriving sense of accomplishment and pride in oneself. A hiking love story about chasing Idaho's tallest peak.Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTRamblingsmountainsreflectionhttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/unifi-zabbix-grafana/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/unifi-zabbix-grafana/Integrate Unifi Access Point metrics into a Zabbix server and graph the data with Grafana, using the Unifi Proxy project on Ubuntu Linux 18.04.Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalinfrastructurehomelabmonitoringhttps://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/homelab-virtualize-domain-2/https://www.kennethlacroix.me/blog/homelab-virtualize-domain-2/Detailed instructions on installing and configuring pfSense as a router, optionally exposing its WebGUI on the WAN, and creating an IPSec tunnel between two offices on separate networks.Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalinfrastructurehomelab