Joshua McDill

Hello! As you can probably tell I haven't written in a while. There are many reasons for this, ranging from competing obligations to faith, family, and community, to being involved in technical work I really can't talk much about in detail. Honestly this makes me sad.

As a systems engineer with a hacker brain, I'm always excited to find and share creative ways to use/misuse tools at hand when the ideal isn't available. What follows is a product of that propensity. When testing network connectivity between systems, most of the audience

The internet is full of sites dedicated to educating the public. This is especially true in the technology sector where bloggers and researchers spend hours crafting clean and clever projects to share with the community in hopes others can learn from their accomplishments. I've written (or tried to

I've spent the past few weeks crafting this post because I want it to serve several purposes: 1. Giving God the glory. He's known me since before I was born and has been with me through every stumbling step. 2. Encourage anyone struggling towards a career

Using SSH tunnels to mitigate the risk posed by a device that can only talk over insecure channels.