THT Systems

The Thinking Network

The Thinking Network (Installment 9): Reactive BGP Automation & SR Linux

Installment 9 of The Thinking Network. We build a reactive actuator that reads Prometheus telemetry and autonomously manipulates BGP Local Preference on SR Linux to mitigate SLA breaches.

The Light Between the Trees

There is a lesson hidden in the woods. Most people look for the open path, the clear answer, the unobstructed way forward. Yet the sun rarely reaches the forest floor directly. It passes through branches, leaves, shadows, and obstacles before we ever see it. Life seems to work the same

The Right Tool

Local LLM Writing and Prose Benchmark: The Right Tool (Part 4)

Part 4 of the local LLM network test. Evaluating six local AI models against Haiku on unstructured prose, session logs, and incident narratives.

The Thinking Network

The Thinking Network (Installment 8): The Sensing Layer & Streaming Telemetry

Installment 8 of The Thinking Network. We give the network eyes and ears by replacing legacy SNMP with high-frequency streaming telemetry, Prometheus, and gNMI on SR Linux.

The Silent Observer

The Cure Time Principle

Real skill cannot be pressured into existence. Whether working with wood at the lathe or mechanics on the mat, sustainable progress requires the willingness to step back and allow the layers to fully set before they are tested.

The Right Tool

Local LLM GPU Impact: The Right Tool (Part 3)

Part 3 of the local LLM network test. Turning on the NVIDIA T600 to measure actual VRAM utilization, thermal limits, and GPU impact on inference speed.

The Thinking Network

The Thinking Network (Installment 7): Automated Network Health Audits

Installment 7 of The Thinking Network. We run a programmatic health audit on the SR Linux fabric, validating IS-IS adjacencies and BGP sessions before initiating the AI intelligence layer.

The Workbench

The Straight Lead Punch: Lineage

The straight lead punch was not invented. It was recovered, independently, by every practitioner who committed to linear offensive mechanics under real pressure, across four centuries and three continents of Western fencing.

The Workbench

The Straight Lead Punch: Force, Structure, and Timing

The straight lead punch looks simple. One hand. One line. Direct. Simplicity without understanding is ignorance. What appears as a single motion is a chain of precise mechanical events, each one depending on the one before it.

Music

Warrior's Zen

She walked up and I didn't know if it had been minutes or hours.

The Right Tool

Corrected Local LLM Network Test: The Right Tool (Part 2)

Run 2 of the local LLM network test. Correcting token budgets and timeouts to see what six AI models can actually do when test design gets out of the way.

The Thinking Network

The Thinking Network (Installment 6): The BGP Overlay & EVPN Services

Installment 6 of The Thinking Network. We deploy the BGP overlay and EVPN address families to create the control plane lever our autonomous AI will use for traffic engineering.

The Silent Observer

Reverse Engineering My NTCA Pension

The NTCA pension lump sum uses IRS §417(e) segment rates - not treasury bonds. Here's how the calculation works and how I verified it to 0.004% accuracy.

The Signal

The Architecture of Resistance: Why Speed Destroys Unaligned Systems

Systems fail from the inside out. Jeet Kune Do princple: True structural integrity relies on mapping the dependencies before the impact hits.

The Right Tool

Evaluating Local LLMs on Network Tasks: The Right Tool (Part 1)

Six local LLMs tested against five real network lab tasks. A baseline cold start run exposing the gap between assumed hardware capability and actual execution.

The Thinking Network

The Thinking Network (Installment 5): IS-IS Routing & The Network Underlay

Installment 5 of The Thinking Network. We configure the network underlay using the IS-IS link-state routing protocol to build the foundational topology for autonomous SR Linux routers.

The Walker

Mythology Entry: The Geometry of the Walk

The Walker returns. Step into the steady pulse of the city with 'Yellow Streetlights,' a lo-fi exploration of discipline, movement, and the geometry of the urban grid.

Ósynilegr Handr

Conversation II: The Grain That Refused

Between what I bring and what's already there. I haven't always known which one leads. Setting: Ósynilegr's studio. Morning. A bowl blank is mounted on the lathe. The floor has shavings. Not long enough that anything has emerged.

The Thinking Network

The Thinking Network (Installment 4): Containerlab & The Fabric Deploy

Installment 4 of The Thinking Network. We execute the build script, using Containerlab to dynamically deploy a carrier-grade SR Linux network topology in thirty seconds.

VEIÐIMENN FÓKUSAR

The Disappearing Hagalaz

Hagalaz - Poem One - Veiðimenn Fókusar Hagalaz: The Disappearing The cold bites through my wool. I press my thumb to the frost on the bark. The elders stay by the hearth. They speak of the quiet woods. They do not hear the pounding in my chest. It is louder than the

The Thinking Network

The Thinking Network (Installment 3): Linux Infrastructure for Autonomous Networks

Installment 3 of The Thinking Network. We configure the physical floor of the workshop, utilizing Garuda Linux as the bare-metal foundation for our AI-driven network environment.

The Silent Observer

Grid and Grip

The Silent Observer Every engineer has a story about the night the plan failed. Not a small failure. The kind where the load climbs past what the architecture was built to hold and you watch it happen in real time with nothing left to do but read what the system

The Walker

TATAMI MORNING: The Walker Mythos

The inaugural track of The Walker mythos, exploring the foundational discipline of the mat and the birth of the warrior's path.

The Sentinel

DAWN VIGIL: THE WEIGHT OF TEN THOUSAND MORNINGS

Forged in the dark. Found his light. Now keeps vigil.

The Silent Observer

Stone Breath

The Silent Observer Some things arrive before you know you needed them. Stone Breath started as a poem. Not written toward anything. Not built for a purpose. It came the way the Silent Observer pieces always come – in the quiet before the day asks anything, when the only company is