Hi, I'm Charles.

I'm a London-based technology person with a background in cloud architecture, security, and operations. This blog is where I document the things I find interesting or the rabbit holes I end up falling down in my personal life.Expect to find posts about technology, distributed systems, home automation, and occasionally cars.

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My Overkill Home Network

My home network is probably more than it needs to be. Multiple VLANs, 802.1x authentication, encrypted DNS, segmented IoT, Cloudflare tunnels in front of anything exposed externally. I do it because I find it interesting — but there's a reasonable philosophy underneath it: things I trust and things I don't shouldn't share the same network, and if something does go wrong, I want the blast radius to be limited. This post covers the hardware, the segmentation, the wireless setup, and some of the rougher edges.