Things I build, break, fix, and write about

Kubernetes Mixed Version Proxy is one of those fixes you only notice when it is missing. During a 1.36 control plane upgrade, it stops an older API server from handing out tidy little lies, the sort...

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`route_controller_route_sync_total` is the sort of metric I trust only when I put it next to real node activity. By itself it tells you little; alongside churn, it shows whether the route controller...

A GitHub internal repositories breach rarely starts with the code itself, it starts with a weak boundary and ends in places people forgot to check. I care less about the headlines than the tokens,...

BitLocker zero-day mitigations are easy to half-apply and then forget, which is exactly how trouble lingers. I had to rebuild WinRE trust after CVE-2026-33825 changes, because removing autofstx.exe is...

Malicious VS Code extensions do not need to look suspicious to do damage. I care less about the marketplace listing and more about what the thing can reach once it is installed, because that is where...

PinTheft Arch Linux root escalation is only interesting if the kernel still exposes RDS, so I start there, not with exploit code. If the patched build really closes the hole, it should fail cleanly,...

Agentic AI is easiest to trust when it has very little to do, and even less power. I prefer to treat tool calling like any other risky admin path, with tight permissions, short-lived credentials, and...

website fraud toolchains are rarely clever at first glance, which is why I trust the ugly details, the redirects, duplicate card prompts, and any thank-you page that appears after a decline. Once you...

ISC Stormcast strips the noise out of vulnerability watching, and that matters when patch windows are tight. I use it to decide what jumps the queue, what stays logged, and what is simply not worth...