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Running Tailscale on the EdgeRouter X

Running Tailscale on the EdgeRouter X

Tailscale if you haven't come across it just yet is a fantastic service which allows you to set up an interlinking mesh between various nodes on the internet. Until just a moment ago, I had all my personal devices and servers set up with Tailscale except one. The

Using LYWSD03MMC with Home Assistant

Using LYWSD03MMC with Home Assistant

My current house in Melbourne despite being relatively new, is quite drafty and I was getting quite tired of either being cold or hot because doors and windows were just letting in outside air while the aircon was letting all the dollars out of my wallet. Electricity for antipodeans [https:

Forget what I said, ddclient is best for your EdgeRouter with Cloudflare DDNS

Forget what I said, ddclient is best for your EdgeRouter with Cloudflare DDNS

In a prior post I wrote how to use the in-built cron jobs of your edgerouter to send curl commands to update DNS records. This solution was rock solid for me, but does a lot of things that are actually unnecessary. But EdgeOS also supports ddclient and so does Cloudflare!

Running cron jobs from your EdgeRouter

I run some home infra and services including this blog. With just a standard internet connection, there's one major hurdle which is your assigned IP address. Most ISP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider]s assign your home modem an IP with an expiry time, i.

Easily download all your files from the Flickr Data export with wget and parallel

I paid for Flickr for years. By my email it looks like I started somehere in 2007 or 2008 and continued to pay all the way into 2015 or so. It was a great product and the first of its kind for unlimited storage. Time now is hazy, but I

EdgeRouter X setup for TPG FTTB PPPoE

I recently moved to Australia and while I wasn't fortunate enough to find a place with true NBN connectivity, my apartment does have TBG FTTB which isn't too shabby. However, TPG's support leaves a lot of room for improvement. Firstly, you are forced to

Ignoring .git and .svn when using `gsutil rsync`

I was recently deploying some static content to a Google Storage bucket and noticed that there wasn't an answer to excluding source control directories in the cloud storage hosting tutorial. Luckily, the gsutil rsync command has an -x option which allows you to exclude some files/directories from

Scale yourself with a SlackOverflow bot

Slack is definitely all the rage right now, despite a whole plethora of similar products. I attribute it nearly wholly to their secret sauce of design [https://medium.com/@awilkinson/slack-s-2-8-billion-dollar-secret-sauce-5c5ec7117908?utm_content=buffera7978&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer] and API-ability. Although,

A retrospective as a MISM from the Heinz College of CMU

A retrospective as a MISM from the Heinz College of CMU

Now over three months ago I finished my Master's Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School [http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/index.aspx] and I wanted to provide a perspective on the program as a whole. I do this for a few reasons: The first

Mounting LUKS encrypted external drive on Raspberry Pi

Mounting LUKS encrypted external drive on Raspberry Pi

Recently my external hard drive of a couple years finally bit the dust after having an actual spinning disk time of a couple years. I got a great deal from DataHoarder [https://www.reddit.com/r/datahoarder] for a new 3TB external from Seagate which is double what I had

A Decade of Ubuntu

A Decade of Ubuntu

It's crazy to think that Ubuntu has now been out for ten years. [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/ten-years-of-ubuntu-how-linuxs-beloved-newcomer-became-its-criticized-king/] I remember ordering my first set of free Ubuntu CD's which was something Canonical did until April, 2011 [http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/04/05/shipit-discontinued-long-live-loco-teams/

Everything is a tool, and you need a toolbox.

I find that I encounter a lot more things that I have time to digest at that current moment in my daily life. [Hacker News|Reddit|TechCrunch|ProductHunt|NYTimes|Twitter] all assault me with plenty of new products and tools that I know somewhere down the road I will need

Enabling Wifi on your Raspberry Pi

After having two Raspberry Pis after a year or two now, it gets annoying to try connecting both of them to ethernet ports on my router. You're also then limited to only doing cool things within range of your ethernet cable from the router then. So, I bought