Things I build, break, fix, and write about

16 September 2026
Monitoring radio, transport and core faults

Private 5G resilience does not come from a cheerful dashboard or a nice radio map. I want to see where the attach failed, which path dropped, and whether the core is quietly spoiling the whole thing; otherwise you are guessing, and guessing is a poor plan when the network is already sulking.

16 September 2026
Pre-boot authentication for BitLocker

TPM-only BitLocker is convenient, but convenience is not the same as a proper boundary. BitLocker PINs push that line back to pre-boot, which is where...

15 September 2026
Single-sided BPool joins drain mOCEAN via SideStaking

Ocean Protocol BPool single-sided join exit math is where this one falls apart, and I have a soft spot for bugs that look tidy until another contract...

15 September 2026
ecrecover checks for Lixir Vault permit signatures

Lixir Vault permit signatures looked ordinary until the final check was missing. If `ecrecover` only needs to return a nonzero address, you have not...

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16 April 2026
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15 April 2026
ACL permission models that break as infrastructure grows

I’ve lost enough evenings to home lab automation pitfalls to know the real trouble starts with small defaults, not big failures. ACL permission models that break as infrastructure grows are usually a...

14 April 2026
Moving keepsakes offsite without losing local Nextcloud

I keep Nextcloud for daily use, but the real safety net sits off the box. A digital keepsakes backup strategy only starts to make sense when restores are boring, not hopeful, and I have learned not to...

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13 April 2026
Tenant isolation failures expose financial metadata leakage

Multi-tenant data isolation failures happen when scope checks live at the presentation layer instead of the query layer. Lloyds learned this the hard way; I'll show you why it matters in your homelab...

13 April 2026
Amazon Fire TV Stick HD and 2 more Amazon tech bargains

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12 April 2026
Isolating n8n in Docker: network policies and backup

Running n8n in your homelab without proper isolation is a liability. CVE-2025-68613 lets authenticated users execute code with container privileges; if that container sits on your default Docker...