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How an Infrastructure Engineer Approaches FIRE: Building fire-sim, an Open-Source Withdrawal Rate Simulator

The 4% rule is a single number from a black box. Here's what happened when we applied normal infrastructure-engineering instincts — validate against known benchmarks, make the methodology inspectable, self-host the thing — to the math behind safe withdrawal rates, and the open-source tool that came out of it.

Jun 2026 · 12 min
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Building a Data-Sovereign Mail Server, Part 1: Classical Hardening

How we built a production mail server from scratch — Postfix, Dovecot, dual DKIM, DANE, DNSSEC, MTA-STS, WKD, and an SNI multiplexer — with Part 2 covering post-quantum OpenPGP on the horizon.

Apr 2026 · 10 min