About

About Hack Your World

I’m a self-taught engineer who has spent about twenty-five years building and running systems. I now lead an engineering department and still write code, manage infrastructure, and troubleshoot the things that connect them.

What I bring to the articles

I’m interested in what a change does to the rest of a system: permissions, deployments, data, recovery, and the people maintaining it. That is how I approach software news as well as the Home Assistant equipment in my house.

You can inspect my public code on GitHub, including GitLab MCP. The projects page connects the repositories to articles about their design and failures.

The name

I registered Hack Your World in 2003. It started with the same interest that keeps me writing: understanding technology well enough to make it work for me.

Sources and funding

Articles distinguish hands-on results from source analysis and vendor claims. Examples adapted from private systems are identified and sanitized. Advertising or affiliate relationships are disclosed where applicable; they do not turn an announcement into a tested recommendation.

Contact

Corrections and questions: ttpears@gmail.com. If something is wrong, please include the article link and the detail I should check.