https://www.markrox.devGatsbyJSThu, 02 Apr 2026 23:01:11 GMThttps://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2026/04/01/governed-agent-orchestration-platform/https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2026/04/01/governed-agent-orchestration-platform/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy an Operational Agent Architecture? There is no shortage of impressive agent demos. There is a shortage of agent systems that can survive…https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2026/03/23/OWASP-hactu8-iac-workbench-proposal/https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2026/03/23/OWASP-hactu8-iac-workbench-proposal/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntroduction After building the IAC prototype extension system, the next obvious gap was extension authoring. The runtime can install…https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2026/03/02/OWASP-hactu8-iac-extensions/https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2026/03/02/OWASP-hactu8-iac-extensions/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntroduction Today we completed a significant architectural milestone: a pluggable extension system for the IAC (Intelligence Assurance…https://www.markrox.dev/2024/12/12/briefing-intro/https://www.markrox.dev/2024/12/12/briefing-intro/Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:00:00 GMTBriefing: An AI-Powered Tool to Stay Informed and Master Knowledge Introduction: The Need for Smarter Tools In an age of information…https://www.markrox.dev/conferences/security/hacking/2025/12/05/bsides-philly-2025/https://www.markrox.dev/conferences/security/hacking/2025/12/05/bsides-philly-2025/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTBsides Philly 2025 What is Bsides? Bsides Philly is a community-driven cybersecurity conference bringing together security professionals…https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2025/12/03/self-learning-generation/https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2025/12/03/self-learning-generation/Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTTL;DR TL;DR — Combine Cache‑Augmented Generation (CAG) with Azure Model Router to keep operational knowledge outside the model, route tasks…https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2025/11/25/enterprise-ai-agent-pattern/https://www.markrox.dev/AppliedAI/2025/11/25/enterprise-ai-agent-pattern/Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTProximity Over Specialization In my recent innovation projects, I’ve been designing, building, and validating agentic architectures…https://www.markrox.dev/AI Strategy/2025/11/14/deterministic-generation/https://www.markrox.dev/AI Strategy/2025/11/14/deterministic-generation/Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe Problem I Keep Seeing Having architected high-availability systems for defense, healthcare, finance, and large-scale gaming, I’ve…https://www.markrox.dev/AI/2025/11/07/ai-is-not-a-bubble/https://www.markrox.dev/AI/2025/11/07/ai-is-not-a-bubble/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTTL;DR Every major computing shift has removed friction between humans and information. The progression is clear: RDBMS: We learned to store…https://www.markrox.dev/Architecture/Prototypes/2025/09/30/voice-generation/https://www.markrox.dev/Architecture/Prototypes/2025/09/30/voice-generation/Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTPrototyping Voice Orchestration I’ve started an early prototype to explore AI-driven orchestration of live voice interactions. The vision is…https://www.markrox.dev/AI Strategy/2025/08/08/gpt5-and-deprecations/https://www.markrox.dev/AI Strategy/2025/08/08/gpt5-and-deprecations/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTOpenAI has retired GPT-4.1 and older models. If your systems rely on these—via OpenAI API, Azure AI Foundry, or local integration—you need…https://www.markrox.dev/AI Strategy/2025/07/24/ai-maturity-model/https://www.markrox.dev/AI Strategy/2025/07/24/ai-maturity-model/Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTNavigating Enterprise AI with Confidence As AI accelerates, so does organizational anxiety. Some race ahead; others retreat. Across this…https://www.markrox.dev/innovation/artificial intelligence/2025/06/12/wwdc25-foundation-models/https://www.markrox.dev/innovation/artificial intelligence/2025/06/12/wwdc25-foundation-models/Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTFoundation Models: Apple’s Silent Revolution in On-Device Intelligence While headlines have focused on delays in Siri's evolution, something…https://www.markrox.dev/innovation/2025/06/07/azure-generative-search-poc/https://www.markrox.dev/innovation/2025/06/07/azure-generative-search-poc/Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMTOver the past few months, I’ve led the design and development of a Proof of Concept (PoC) engagement co-sponsored by Microsoft and a trusted…https://www.markrox.dev/status/2025/05/02/this-week-at-markroxdotdev/https://www.markrox.dev/status/2025/05/02/this-week-at-markroxdotdev/Fri, 02 May 2025 16:00:00 GMTWeekly Progress Update This week was packed with meaningful progress across multiple fronts: GenSearch POC (Client A) Advanced Milestone…https://www.markrox.dev/writing/2025/04/14/introducing-muse-the-gpt-for-writers/https://www.markrox.dev/writing/2025/04/14/introducing-muse-the-gpt-for-writers/Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTIntroducing Muse: Your Fiction Writing Companion Writers don’t need another blank page. They need momentum. They need structure that fuels…https://www.markrox.dev/security/2025/02/26/tee/https://www.markrox.dev/security/2025/02/26/tee/Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:00:00 GMTIntroduction With partnership funding from Microsoft, I created a proof of concept for a major client to design, develop and implement an…https://www.markrox.dev/05134426bcd175050b08193c02f14ccdafcca088/2024/08/15/mfa-enablement-finsvc/https://www.markrox.dev/05134426bcd175050b08193c02f14ccdafcca088/2024/08/15/mfa-enablement-finsvc/Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:00:00 GMTIntroduction In today's digital landscape, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has become a critical requirement for ensuring the security of…https://www.markrox.dev/blog/2024/03/10/guardrails/https://www.markrox.dev/blog/2024/03/10/guardrails/Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:00:00 GMTGuardrails Presentation for DAMA Philadelphia at PennDNA, Penn Medicine Guardrails: “Secure Data Retrieval Augmentation for Generative…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2023/07/15/building-improvements/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2023/07/15/building-improvements/Sat, 15 Jul 2023 23:00:00 GMTBuilding Improvements This post describes recent work and planned work on this site, an update for 2023 of some basic features. Taking a…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2023/06/24/innovation-project-initiative/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2023/06/24/innovation-project-initiative/Sat, 24 Jun 2023 23:00:00 GMTInnovation Project Initiative Starting a project of projects, using the ACTU8.IO domain ACTU8.IO Applications and platform work AI…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2023/03/20/touchpoint-march-2023/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2023/03/20/touchpoint-march-2023/Sun, 19 Mar 2023 23:00:00 GMTTouchpoint for March 2023 Spring is right around the corner and I wanted to capture a few notes, ideas, memories and a snapshot to look back…https://www.markrox.dev/2022/09/29/catch-up-forward-plan/https://www.markrox.dev/2022/09/29/catch-up-forward-plan/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:00:00 GMTCatch Up, Planning Forward Facets I'm taking a snapshot now - work, volunteer, professional and personal facets of my life. Work I am always…https://www.markrox.dev/security/2022/07/12/p8-owasp-privacy-session/https://www.markrox.dev/security/2022/07/12/p8-owasp-privacy-session/Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:00:00 GMTP-8 Missing or Insufficient Session Expiration The OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks Project identifies the top 10 privacy risks in web…https://www.markrox.dev/soccer/2022/06/16/sjsl-information-officer/https://www.markrox.dev/soccer/2022/06/16/sjsl-information-officer/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:00:00 GMTMy Election Platform One of my cooler volunteer roles is with the South Jersey Soccer League (SJSL) as their Information Officer. From the… relational features. Linking…]]>https://www.markrox.dev/database/2022/03/07/edgedb/https://www.markrox.dev/database/2022/03/07/edgedb/Mon, 07 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMTEdgeDB EdgeDB is an object / schema based database written in Python. I'm looking at it for the graph <> relational features. Linking…https://www.markrox.dev/blog/2022/02/22/evolving-thinking/https://www.markrox.dev/blog/2022/02/22/evolving-thinking/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:00:00 GMTWhat makes me tick? Reading this morning's "Pointer" newsletter, see Pointer.io, the first item is The 25 Micro-habits Of High-Impact…https://www.markrox.dev/documentation/2022/02/17/mermaid-support/https://www.markrox.dev/documentation/2022/02/17/mermaid-support/Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:00:00 GMTMermaid for Diagramming Always in search of good tooling - robust, compatible, extensible - for diagrams. Mermaid.js looks like something…https://www.markrox.dev/development/2021/12/21/react-conf-2021-recap/https://www.markrox.dev/development/2021/12/21/react-conf-2021-recap/Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:00:00 GMTReact Conference 2021 - State of their Art React Conf Website Feature Recap Concurrent Features implement Concurrent renderer in React 1…https://www.markrox.dev/security/2021/12/11/log4j-threat/https://www.markrox.dev/security/2021/12/11/log4j-threat/Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:00:00 GMTLog4Shell: A Log4J Vulnerability A major component used in Java, Apache servers, Log4J is vulnerable to parameter substitution - like SQL…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/12/01/monthly-focus-3/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/12/01/monthly-focus-3/Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:00:00 GMTDecember Theme - Clarity "Clarity" clar·i·ty /ˈklerədē/ (noun) The quality of being coherent and intelligible. 3 goals this month are set by…https://www.markrox.dev/architecture/2021/11/21/building-micro-frontends/https://www.markrox.dev/architecture/2021/11/21/building-micro-frontends/Sun, 21 Nov 2021 15:00:00 GMTBuilding Micro-Frontends Resources New client, thinking about architectures - I am helping out their platform team, learning about micro…https://www.markrox.dev/sjs1/2021/11/12/sjs1-inaugural-podcast/https://www.markrox.dev/sjs1/2021/11/12/sjs1-inaugural-podcast/Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:00:00 GMTInaugural The SJS1 Podcast SJS1 is a new media platform for South Jersey sports. I hosted the inaugural The SJS1 Podcast with Keith Rambo…https://www.markrox.dev/security/2021/10/27/dama-privacy-presentation/https://www.markrox.dev/security/2021/10/27/dama-privacy-presentation/Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:00:00 GMTCyber Security Month Presentation - DAMA Philadelphia I presented the OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks Project to the DAMA Philadelphia chapter…https://www.markrox.dev/security/2021/10/05/p10-owasp-privacy-risk/https://www.markrox.dev/security/2021/10/05/p10-owasp-privacy-risk/Wed, 20 Oct 2021 01:00:00 GMTP-10 Collection of data not required for the user-consented purpose The OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks Project identifies the top 10 privacy…https://www.markrox.dev/security/2021/10/21/p9-owasp-privacy-risk/https://www.markrox.dev/security/2021/10/21/p9-owasp-privacy-risk/Wed, 20 Oct 2021 01:00:00 GMTP-9 Inability of users to access and modify data The OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks Project identifies the top 10 privacy risks in web…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/10/01/monthly-focus-3/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/10/01/monthly-focus-3/Fri, 01 Oct 2021 01:00:00 GMTOctober Theme - Actualization "Actualization" To realize in action or make real from the Free Dictionary This month I'll be rolling off the…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/09/26/week-39/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/09/26/week-39/Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:00:00 GMTWeek 39 Retrospective Busy, busy, busy. I started the week with a plan. It was a week full of all kinds of interactions beyond the Slack…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/09/18/week-38/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/09/18/week-38/Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:00:00 GMTWeek 38 Retrospective Overall feel - last week was a grind. Despite that all my projects are green, SJSL went well on Sunday and not a…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/09/01/monthly-focus-3/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/09/01/monthly-focus-3/Wed, 01 Sep 2021 01:00:00 GMTPlanning for September 2021 September 2021 Theme “Habitualization” - building from last month, I will create a daily process to build a…https://www.markrox.dev/data science/2021/08/29/soccer-data-tasks/https://www.markrox.dev/data science/2021/08/29/soccer-data-tasks/Sun, 29 Aug 2021 01:00:00 GMTNew Platforms, New Features, Missing Cheese As the Information Officer for the South Jersey Soccer League, I'm tasked with making sure our…https://www.markrox.dev/site/2021/08/03/unsplashed/https://www.markrox.dev/site/2021/08/03/unsplashed/Tue, 03 Aug 2021 01:00:00 GMTWhat is Unsplash.com? Found several excellent photos and images on Unsplash.com, looks like a modern Flickr. Happy to add to my site…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/08/01/monthly-focus-3/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2021/08/01/monthly-focus-3/Sun, 01 Aug 2021 01:00:00 GMTPlanning for August 2021 Working through a planning guide, in the Getting Results the Agile Way book, following the method laid out here…https://www.markrox.dev/site/2021/07/29/gtmetrix-score/https://www.markrox.dev/site/2021/07/29/gtmetrix-score/Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:00:00 GMTScores from GTmetrix 100% on site performance, 99% on site structure. Of course, now I'm wondering how to fix that 1%. GTMetrix markrox.dev…https://www.markrox.dev/books/2021/07/29/what-am-i-reading/https://www.markrox.dev/books/2021/07/29/what-am-i-reading/Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:00:00 GMTSharpening the Saw A good writer is a good reader, keeping myself up to date and some leisure reading (and listening): The Invention of…https://www.markrox.dev/development/salesforce/sfcc/sfra/2021/07/27/sfcc-sfra-httpclient/https://www.markrox.dev/development/salesforce/sfcc/sfra/2021/07/27/sfcc-sfra-httpclient/Tue, 27 Jul 2021 01:00:00 GMTUsing HttpClient in Salesforce Commerce Cloud I needed a quick way to get a model for a view. For our API calls, I created services…https://www.markrox.dev/development/2021/07/25/github-action-gatsby/https://www.markrox.dev/development/2021/07/25/github-action-gatsby/Sun, 25 Jul 2021 01:00:00 GMTWhy? The gatsby template includes scripting to deploy from whereever you cloned your code. It works just fine and is reliable when…https://www.markrox.dev/development/2021/07/07/gatsby-custom-pager/https://www.markrox.dev/development/2021/07/07/gatsby-custom-pager/Wed, 07 Jul 2021 01:00:00 GMTInfinity scroll or pager I opted to implement a pager on markrox.dev Pager.js Followed the guidance on the Gatsby site to query and set…https://www.markrox.dev/development/2021/07/06/swift-tricks/https://www.markrox.dev/development/2021/07/06/swift-tricks/Tue, 06 Jul 2021 01:00:00 GMTSwift tips Probably basic stuff, but wanted to keep a reference of useful tricks Simulator not updating the Launch Image I added a…https://www.markrox.dev/technology/2021/07/04/building-an-app/https://www.markrox.dev/technology/2021/07/04/building-an-app/Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:00:00 GMTBuilding an App Design, Plan, Code and Ship a SwiftUI app and blog about it Define the App Pick the Technologies Give the App a home Design…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/website/2021/07/04/site-update/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/website/2021/07/04/site-update/Sun, 04 Jul 2021 01:00:00 GMTImprovements and Future Plan The Move (Jekyll to Gatsby, Azure to Github Pages) The Site Feature Roadmap The Site Content Roadmaphttps://www.markrox.dev/projects/2021/07/03/mini-sabbatical/https://www.markrox.dev/projects/2021/07/03/mini-sabbatical/Sat, 03 Jul 2021 01:00:00 GMTFinding or making the time This summer, I decided to burn a few vacation days for personal and professional improvements, a small scale…https://www.markrox.dev/website/markdown/2005/10/29/markdown-reference/https://www.markrox.dev/website/markdown/2005/10/29/markdown-reference/Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMTMarkdown Cheat Sheet Thanks you for providing this cheatsheet, The Markdown Guide! This Markdown cheat sheet provides a quick overview of…https://www.markrox.dev/technology/2021/05/02/web-tools-and-tips/https://www.markrox.dev/technology/2021/05/02/web-tools-and-tips/Sun, 02 May 2021 23:00:00 GMTTools and Tips Blog post to capture useful web tool and tip stuff Html Select Options to Plain text On the page with the dropdown box (in…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/website/2020/12/17/site-roadmap/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/website/2020/12/17/site-roadmap/Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:00:00 GMTPast, Present, Future The site is looking good and it's pretty fast. I've spent some time on features and formatting, making it easy to…https://www.markrox.dev/performance/2020/12/14/stick-the-landing/https://www.markrox.dev/performance/2020/12/14/stick-the-landing/Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:00:00 GMT"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." ― William Gibson Timeline Writing some things down for posterity, to…https://www.markrox.dev/dama/data-science/2020/09/12/dama-social-media-data-quality/https://www.markrox.dev/dama/data-science/2020/09/12/dama-social-media-data-quality/Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:30:00 GMTVirtual Meeting September 17, 2020 Social Media Data Quality Register Here Speaker: Jennifer Radke DAMA Philadelphia hosts five full day…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2020/03/01/delta/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2020/03/01/delta/Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:30:00 GMT"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." -- Kurt Vonnegut Post from my iPad I had been…https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2019/06/01/summer-time/https://www.markrox.dev/planning/2019/06/01/summer-time/Wed, 01 May 2019 15:30:00 GMT"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar…https://www.markrox.dev/domains/hsts/security/2019/03/01/dev-domain/https://www.markrox.dev/domains/hsts/security/2019/03/01/dev-domain/Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:30:00 GMT.DEV sites are available as of 2/28/2019 The .DEV TLD was made available for domain name registrars yesterday 2/28 and today I registered…https://www.markrox.dev/ai/robotics/fll/2018/10/12/future-engineers-into-orbit-challenge/https://www.markrox.dev/ai/robotics/fll/2018/10/12/future-engineers-into-orbit-challenge/Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:30:00 GMTFuture Engineers - Into Orbit Project Challenge The Future Engineers Team is developing a modular, deployable, autonomous defense system to…https://www.markrox.dev/tools/ide/2018/10/03/my-development-environment/https://www.markrox.dev/tools/ide/2018/10/03/my-development-environment/Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:00:00 GMTTool set as of 2018-10-03 Tracking the tools, extensions and configurations I use for software/hardware development, development/operations…https://www.markrox.dev/robotics/2018/10/05/robotics-workshop-roadmap/https://www.markrox.dev/robotics/2018/10/05/robotics-workshop-roadmap/Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:00:00 GMTRoadmap Goals Full Participation Foundations Exploration Preparation Batteries Laptop checks Kit checks Environment Building Materials…https://www.markrox.dev/briefing/2018/10/01/technology-briefing/https://www.markrox.dev/briefing/2018/10/01/technology-briefing/Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:00:00 GMTArtificial Intelligence Security: Sphere OS, IoT Robotics: Lego FLL Distilled Skills Inventory Ansible OpenShift Kafkahttps://www.markrox.dev/linux/docker/sqlserver/2017/08/25/sql-server-linux-notes/https://www.markrox.dev/linux/docker/sqlserver/2017/08/25/sql-server-linux-notes/Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:00:00 GMTGet Docker (if it is not already running) Get the SQL Server on Linux for Docker Engine image I'm running Docker on MacOS, I will use the…https://www.markrox.dev/performance/2017/04/05/perf-engineering-post-mortem/https://www.markrox.dev/performance/2017/04/05/perf-engineering-post-mortem/Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:00:00 GMTPerformance Engineering Post Mortem I have been working for 2 months in a performance engineering role for a client. The project had…https://www.markrox.dev/technology/2017/02/12/technology-briefing/https://www.markrox.dev/technology/2017/02/12/technology-briefing/Sun, 12 Feb 2017 22:00:00 GMTFarmland I started last week at a new client out in the farm lands of Pennsylvania. Out of my comfort zone, this involved a hotel stay at…