CirriusTech
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Projects
  • Personal
  • Fiction
  • About
  • Certifications
☕ Enjoying the content? Consider supporting me on Ko-fi

Technical Writing

Tech Blog

Cloud security, identity, infrastructure, and research. Deep dives, tools, and practical guidance.

4 Jan 2019 · 5 min read · aboutme · unisys

Cirrius Tech - An Introduction

My Background I am a lifelong technology enthusiast, having worked in Financial Services IT for more than 20 years, across multiple disciplines including: Unisys MCP-based mainframe platforms (A17/A19/HMP NX 6800/Libra …

  • ««
  • «
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • »
  • »»
Recent Posts
Self-Hosting Umami on Netlify + Azure: What I’d Do Differently (and Why Your Database Probably Isn’t the Problem)
Self-Hosting Umami on …

Self-Hosting Umami on Netlify + Azure

Prisma fights, pgcrypto drama, CSP facepalms, cold starts… and assumptions with teeth


TL;DR

I set out to self-host Umami analytics for this website using:

  • Netlify (Next.js runtime - I already host my site here so it made sense to me!)
  • Azure PostgreSQL Flexible …

March 25, 2026 Read
Synthetic Authority and Constrained Probabilism: What Overloaded Minds Teach Us About AI
Synthetic Authority and …

Hero image generated by ChatGPT

This is a personal blog. All opinions are my own and not those of my employer.


We Are Not Exploring New Territory

After publishing Capability ≠ Obligation, I had a conversation that lingered far longer than I expected.

It wasn’t with a policymaker, a …

February 15, 2026 Read
MCP, Latency, and Constrained Probabilism
MCP, Latency, and …

The Wrong Latency Question

When people talk about latency in AI systems, they usually mean network latency …

February 7, 2026 Read
Capability ≠ Obligation: When Agentic Systems Start Hiring Humans
Capability ≠ Obligation: …

Hero image generated by ChatGPT

This is a personal blog. All opinions are my own and not those of my employer.


Capability ≠ Obligation

There is a phrase I keep coming back to as I watch the current wave of agentic systems spill out of demo videos and into the real world:

Capability ≠ …

February 5, 2026 Read
From Clawdbot to GAINet: When Agent Experiments Outrun Accountability
From Clawdbot to GAINet: …

Hero image generated by ChatGPT

This is a personal blog. All opinions are my own and not those of my employer.


From Clawdbot to GAINet: When Agent Experiments Outrun Accountability

This post didn’t start as a philosophical musing about AI.

It started with a very practical, very familiar …

January 31, 2026 Read
Allowing ARM for Dev Box: When Portals Impersonate Users (and How to Avoid It)
Allowing ARM for Dev Box: …

Hero image generated by ChatGPT This is a personal blog and all content herein is my own opinion and not that of my employer.


What The Entra Fudge?!

There’s a particular flavour of frustration that only appears when:

  • you follow the documentation,
  • you apply least privilege,
  • you design sensible …

January 20, 2026 Read
Footer logo
© 2026 All Rights Reserved