Notes

Read Dexter Brylle's notes on software engineering, system reliability, security, and technical documentation, including architecture diagrams with Mermaid.

The TV That Talked Too Much

A working note on reducing ads and telemetry on a Xiaomi Mi TV P1 with ADB, including the mistakes I made along the way.

Building with Intent

On the value of small, focused tools built for specific problems.

Visualizing System Architecture with Mermaid

A demonstration of Mermaid diagrams for technical documentation—flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and entity relationships rendered at build time.

First Note

A short marker for the beginning of this notebook.

Security as Craft

A working note on treating security as part of engineering practice.