Touching the Stars - Becoming a Kubestronaut

I have, for the better part of two and a half years, been studying on and off to become fully certified in Kubernetes. As of this writing, I have completed all of the Kubernetes-related certificates that the Linux Foundation has to offer. I figured I’d take some time to talk about what each test covers briefly, why I decided to go for Kubestronaut, talk about my experience learning the material and applying it to my day job, things that I found great and not so great about the process, and what I want to focus on next in my own research around Kubernetes. ...

December 26, 2025 · 10 min · 1947 words · Modus

GrrCon 2025 Talk!

Your old pal Modus happened to be slotted in for a talk last-minute at GrrCon this year. I intend to write some articles to capture what the talk was about and why it all matters, but the tl;dr is that cost isn’t always a factor when looking to be secure- if you’re willing to put in the elbow grease you can be a lot better off from a risk mitigation perspective than you would have otherwise. ...

September 26, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Modus

PKCE and you!

I know I don’t write a whole lot here anymore; granted, I was never a huge blogger. Most of the writing “itch” I have has gone into writing articles elsewhere, and posting links to them here. Not that this is a bad thing! I appreciate that people appreciate the things I want to understand better and therefore research enough to write about. I hope that continues. Anyway, here’s the article: https://bok.idpro.org/article/id/123/

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 71 words · Modus

Old 2600 Article - Second Article on Passwords (41:3 Release)

Since the articles I had in 2600 have been out for some time, I figured I would post them here in the event that someone may want them in the future. I am presenting them as I wrote them, not as they had been edited in 2600 (Which admittedly was not a ton of editing). I have also done a tiny amount of additional editing to add headers and so on. Since I do this work mostly in Markdown, you’ll see there’s, well, Markdown-styled things in here. ...

June 14, 2025 · 10 min · 2114 words · Modus

Old 2600 Article - First Article on Passwords (41:1 Release)

Since the articles I had in 2600 have been out for some time, I figured I would post them here in the event that someone may want them in the future. I am presenting them as I wrote them, not as they had been edited in 2600 (Which admittedly was not a ton of editing). I have also done a tiny amount of additional editing to add headers and so on. Since I do this work mostly in Markdown, you’ll see there’s, well, Markdown-styled things in here. ...

June 14, 2025 · 12 min · 2508 words · Modus