Field notes on infrastructure, security, homelabs, open source, and the occasional useful mistake.
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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."
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.…
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