The Coe Lab

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The Coe Lab

A digital workshop where AI meets automation, experiments take shape, and curiosity drives discovery.

Built by Collin Coe — technology leader, self-hosting advocate, and lifelong tinkerer. Here you will find writing on cybersecurity and infrastructure, interactive games built for curiosity, and a lab full of services running on real hardware.

What is The Coe Lab?

The Coe Lab is the personal platform of Collin Coe, a technology leader who works at the intersection of cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and AI integration. This site is part blog, part playground, part public lab notebook — a place to share what I build, write about what I learn, and experiment with web technology along the way. Explore the links below to dive in.

Featured

When Hackers Defrost the Food Supply: The Hidden Risk in Smart Refrigeration

A cyberattack on European supermarket refrigeration shows how connected operational technology can turn a routine IT breach into food loss and physical disruption.

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Playground

Games & Experiments

Interactive typing games for toddlers, reaction time tests, memory challenges, and cognitive science experiments — all built in the browser.

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Lab

Self-Hosted Services

AI tools, media management, and remote desktop — all running on a home Unraid server in Docker containers.

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Writing

Recent Posts

Thoughts on technology, automation, AI, and building smarter systems.

The Zod 4.6.6 Scare: A Practical npm Supply-Chain Response

A suspicious Zod commit triggered malware fears without proof of a poisoned npm release. Here is how teams should investigate, contain, and improve dependency security.

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Talorys Turns Cloudflare’s Free Tier Into a Personal AI Agent

Talorys runs a private personal AI assistant on Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and Workers AI. Here is what its architecture gets right—and its limits.

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Cloudflare Acquires Deno: The Edge Runtime Consolidation Begins

Cloudflare’s Deno acquisition ends Deno Deploy and the standalone runtime roadmap, reshaping JavaScript infrastructure, open source, and AI agents.

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Whistle’s 16.9 MB Speech Model Makes Private Voice AI Practical

Whistle compresses multilingual speech recognition into 16.9 MB. Here’s what its architecture, tradeoffs, and edge deployment economics mean in practice.

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Claude Haiku 5.5: Why Cheap AI Changes Agent Architecture

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts small-model costs dramatically while adding serious agent skills. Here is why routing, caching, and architecture now matter more than model size.

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When the Registry Fell: How Hijacked Country Domains Became the New Attack Vector for Counterfeit TLS Certificates

Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domain registries to mint fraudulent HTTPS certificates for Google and other major services. The incident exposes a structural weakness in the web's trust infrastructure that no browser alone can fix.

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