9 min
People Are Actually Using This Thing
The UniFi provider went from 153 downloads in May to about 23,600. Here is what broke once people started running it against controllers I do not own.
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Experiments, walkthroughs, and postmortems from the systems that made it out of the homelab.
15 min
Training a Small Model on My Own Home Network
I have been using LLMs for years without ever training one. So I spent a few weeks teaching a 0.6B model to answer questions about my own UniFi network, and learned that my measuring stick was broken, my control group was a lucky pair,…
13 min
Treating OpenClaw Like a Junior Sysadmin
(Or, yet another blog post on playing around with openclaw, just much less hype)
8 min
Why I Wrote a New Terraform Provider for UniFi
I wanted a UniFi Terraform workflow I could trust, so I wrote a new provider built around the current OpenAPI snapshot. It is published now, active, and already past its first hundred downloads.
15 min
Building an In-App Auto-Updater for a Containerized NixOS Deployment
What started as a straightforward trigger-file mechanism has evolved through a dozen iterations into something with pre-upgrade backups, separate backend/frontend version tracking, step-by-step progress reporting, and post-upgrade…
4 min
Introducing Graphēon
"Network enumeration shouldn't require a PhD in Visio. So I built something."
2 min
Decoding Kubernetes Secrets with jq
It's been a while since I've posted, and I generally post about things I've learned / have helped me in my day to day role. This is a quick blog post about easily decoding base64 encoded secrets in kubernetes, using Kubectl and jq.…
2 min
CVE's
CVE's. Gamified? Maybe. Useful? Maybe. Fast-becoming-too-complex to manage? I think so. But. This is currently one of the best ways of unified reporting & alerting of vulnerabilities to a wide audience. There's certainly room for…
2 min
Dachau
Last weekend, we traveled to the Alpine town of Garmisch, explored the beautiful Neuschwanstein Castle, and on our return trip to Stuttgart, visited the Dachau memorial. Words cannot express what we experienced while walking through the…