A Jog, a Homelab, and the Cost of ‘Doing It Yourself’
Another day, another jog, another chance to talk out loud to myself. It’s Monday, December 8th, 2025. I haven’t listened to my audiobooks or the SANS podcast yet,…
3 min readTHE NOTEBOOK / QUENTIN MAYO
Field notes.
Thoughts on security, building things, and everything in between.
The Value of Sharing What You Know
You know, something I think about a lot—especially now that I’m doing more development and security work—is the value of sharing information. Back in the day, I used…
3 min readSunday Jog Reflections – December 7th, 2025
Another day, another jog. It’s Sunday, December 7th, 2025, and I’ve been thinking a lot about where I’m at—especially with my fitness and my projects. I ate way…
2 min readDeployments, Gen-AI, and How They Shape My Development Process
Hey, my name is Quentin Mayo, and in today’s blog I want to talk about deployments, Gen-AI, and how both shape the way I think about development. I’ll…
4 min readHome Automation Journey
A while back, one of my colleagues mentioned Home Assistant. I didn’t pay much attention at first because I was using a tool called DRAC Board. Fun name—and…
4 min readUnraid VM – Fixing Requires guest agent installed – Ubuntu
TL;DR Run : sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent -y sudo reboot If you’re running an Ubuntu virtual machine (VM) on Unraid and see the message: “Requires guest agent installed” …you’re not alone. This…
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