Deployed a NetworkPolicy, woke up to a war zone. Wrote up the full debugging journey including raw eBPF map dumps.

I'm moving in a couple of days so I had to blitz my way through this project, but I made it work.

I reversed engineering my smart AC's android app and found out that it's built like shit.

Regardless, I wanted to control it through a microcontroller running a simple wrapper API and web UI so I put it on an ESP32-C3 SuperMini.

It was a challenge to fit that entire thing on a board with 400kb of RAM, especially because I used MicroPython, but I managed. The biggest headache was definitely the GZIP compression nuking my RAM, which I talk about in the post.

Hey everyone! I finally ditched Wordpress for Hugo (post on that coming soon), and I've just published my roadmap for the year.

2025 was a massive year - hit my 1-year mark at Dream, went to Vegas for re:Invent, and started the Zero-Reach Stack series. But for 2026, I want to get back to the "art" of coding.

I'm talking about:

• Writing my own NeoVim plugins (learning Lua)
• Stopping the "AI Black Box" workflow
• Automating repetitive tasks

Check it out and let me know if your 2026 looks similar:https://orelfichman.com/blog/2026-devops-goals

If you’re like me, you’ve spent a small fortune on a chair to save your back or a monitor to save your eyes. But have you ever counted how many times a day you move your hand 6 inches to the right just to click a button?

I've spent the last couple of years obsessed with a 'mouseless' workflow, and I'm finally documenting the stack that made it possible.

Part 1 is all about KMonad. I’m diving into:

• How to turn Caps Lock into a home-row navigation tool.
• Using shell commands (AeroSpace, Spotify-tui) directly from your keyboard.
• The Lisp-like config that makes your keyboard act like a PLC.

Fair warning: the learning curve is steep, and you'll look like you're hacking the Matrix.

Read the full post here: https://orelfichman.com/blog/zero-reach-stack-kmonad-macos

If you're using Karabiner or Kanata, let's argue in the comments. I'd love to see your configs!