may 15, 2026
Seven visual tools, one diagram
Excalidraw is fast, but everything I make in it ends up looking the same. I tried seven tools that promise blog visuals with attitude — on a single…
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may 10, 2026
Lazy SRE's guide to secure systems, part 6: the network in front of everything
Ivanti made everyone re-read their VPN architecture in January 2024. Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel, and WireGuard in one afternoon.
may 8, 2026
How to bypass corporate MDM and AI gateways on Claude Code
Your company's MDM dropped managed-settings.json and the network team wedged Claude through an AI gateway. Here's how each leash works.
may 3, 2026
Lazy SRE's guide to secure systems, part 5: the dev laptop is the perimeter
Snowflake taught everyone what happens when an infostealer runs on a contractor's personal Mac. The laptop is the perimeter.
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Harshit Luthra. Sénior SRE, infrequent essayist, occasional source of production incidents. More about me →
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kubernetes · terraform · aws · next.js · typescript · postgres
20 posts · 10 TILs · writing here since 2018