I'm Tom, welcome to my page!

This website is to serve as a blog for my personal IT related projects.

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Recent Posts

• Recovering a Forgotten HPE Power Protector Password

  Published:May 14, 2026 • 6 min read

  What started as a simple password reset turned into reverse engineering a native binary to discover HPE Power Protector stores passwords with AES encryption, not hashing.

• Upgrading a Year-Old Astro Blog in Under an Hour with Codex

  Published:Feb 11, 2026 • 1 min read

  How I used Codex to upgrade my older Astro blog to Astro 5, move to React 19, fix vulnerabilities, and resolve Cloudflare build issues quickly.

• Starlink Performance in the Austrlian Outback

  Published:Jan 10, 2025 • 2 min read

  My Starlink performance metrics and writeup

• Hello, world!

  Published:Jan 9, 2025 • 1 min read

  My first post