The World in Miniature

Like many kids of my generation, I spent countless hours in the world of analog model railroading. But for me, it wasn’t just about watching a locomotive circle a loop of track. The real magic was in the creation: assembling plastic house kits, meticulously crafting terrain, and the complex “under-the-table” work of wiring up lights and electromagnetic turnouts. It was my first introduction to engineering and project management, though I didn’t know it then.

For years, OpenBSD was stuck in a technical time-warp. While the rest of the world moved to Kismet “Newcore” - with its powerful web-based UI, distributed capture, and multi-protocol support—the OpenBSD port remained anchored to the legacy ncurses version.

The core software, with some small patches, compiled fine, but there was a massive void: no Wifi capture driver for OpenBSD. To move forward and finally retire the ancient version, I had to build the engine: capture_openbsd_wifi.