<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-05-19T19:51:53+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Dean Bird - VK4DSB / QuirkyIT</title><subtitle>Amateur radio operator, IT security professional, and tinkerer based in Bellmere QLD.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Welcome — starting a blog</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/20/welcome.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Welcome — starting a blog" /><published>2026-05-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/20/welcome</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/20/welcome.html"><![CDATA[<p>Setting up a blog on this site so I can post short writeups as projects come together, rather than always promoting them to full topic pages.</p>

<p>Expect posts on:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Amateur radio builds and on-air experiments (VK4DSB)</li>
  <li>DFIR and threat-intel tooling — including ongoing work on <a href="https://github.com/birdman4512/talkIR">talkIR</a>, <a href="https://github.com/birdman4512/SignalSage">SignalSage</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/birdman4512/forensic-claw">forensic-claw</a></li>
  <li>Tinkering with local LLMs, RAG pipelines, and Meshtastic</li>
</ul>

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