Field notes on infrastructure, security, homelabs, open source, and the occasional useful mistake.
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CloudPAM keeps planned address pools and discovered AWS and GCP resources in the same place, so overlaps and drift show up before deployment.
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.
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,…
(Or, yet another blog post on playing around with openclaw, just much less hype)
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.
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…
"Network enumeration shouldn't require a PhD in Visio. So I built something."
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