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Where to begin on newcombe.dev, depending on why you are here.

I am an enterprise architect who still writes the PowerShell and reads the routing table. This site is the record of that work: long articles on programmes and patterns, and short TIL notes from the same estate.

There are two ways in. For the background, see About and the CV.

  1. If you are deciding whether to talk to me

    The programme work, at the scale it ran, and how I write about it.

    1. Lessons from Replacing a Legacy VPN with ZTNA
    2. Designing Zero Trust for Failure
    3. How I Standardised CI/CD Across 37 GitLab Repos
    4. Writing About Work You Cannot Describe

  2. If you arrived with a problem to solve

    Working fixes, each with the reasoning behind it.

    1. Building a Better Cloudflare Gateway Block Page
    2. Making Cloudflare Access Denials Actually Useful
    3. Troubleshoot AD Lockouts with PowerShell
    4. When Prompt Caching Costs More Than No Caching
    5. Auditing an Accessibility Claim I Had Not Earned

After that, Series collects the articles meant to be read in order, and Topics has everything else by subject.