Things I build, break, fix, and write about

29 July 2026
Headlamp in-cluster deployment and RBAC boundaries

Headlamp in-cluster deployment only makes sense when the UI belongs inside the cluster, and even then the service account should be painfully narrow. I trust the boundary, not the person using it on a quiet afternoon.

28 July 2026
Marketplace takedown pressure on vendor operations

Marketplace takedowns do more than pull a site offline, they cut through the vendor routines that keep sales moving. In dark web marketplaces, that...

28 July 2026
Brickstorm persistence in Microsoft 365

Brickstorm showed how Microsoft 365 persistence can survive a tidy password reset and a few blocked logins. I keep coming back to the same point, if...

27 July 2026
Restricting Serv-U access before patching

The SolarWinds Serv-U flaw is the sort of bug that turns a routine patch into an ugly afternoon, so I would block the obvious request pattern first...

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