may 20, 2026
The git commands I actually run every day
Ten years of git, distilled. The daily eight, the weekly five, the archeology pack, and two AI shell helpers as a bonus.
Infrastructure notes
Production stories,
written in the calm after.
I do platform work at a startup. This is where I write down the things I had to figure out the hard way, so future-me at 3am doesn't have to.
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The lair
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The workbench, in detail.
SDR, a Flipper, a Pwnagotchi, a few antennas I tuned in bad lighting, and an hourglass for measuring how long a deploy actually takes.
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may 15, 2026
Seven visual tools, one diagram
Excalidraw is fast, but everything I make in it looks the same. Seven tools that promise visuals with attitude, one diagram, three I'd keep.
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.
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Harshit Luthra. Sénior SRE, infrequent essayist, occasional source of production incidents. More about me →
What I work in
kubernetes · terraform · aws · next.js · typescript · postgres
21 posts · 11 TILs · writing here since 2018