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Forget what I said, ddclient is best for your EdgeRouter

In a prior post I wrote that one can use the in-built cron jobs of your edgerouter in order to send curl commands to update DNS records to point at your router. This solution was rock solid for me, but does a lot of things that are actually unnecessary. What

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 ISPs assign your home modem an IP with an expiry time, i.e. you have a given IP address with a deadline and

photo saving

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 pay $10 and use a TP

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 your copy.

slack

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 and API-ability. Although, I find when I want to actually want to get something done, I shut down Slack completely. Even with all notifications

reflection

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 and I wanted to provide a perspective on the program as a whole. I do this for a few reasons: The first is that I want to provide a single perspective of a

photos

Saving pictures on the Internet in 2015 is still broken

I've been saving pictures on the Internet for nearly a decade. And I remember when it first become feasible with Facebook and then even better with Flickr to do so. I remember the early days, I used to carry around a CD-RW at my high school with all my photos

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 for a new 3TB external from Seagate which is double what I had before. Wanting to keep all my

A Decade of Ubuntu

It's crazy to think that Ubuntu has now been out for ten years. I remember ordering my first set of free Ubuntu CD's which was something Canonical did until April, 2011 allowing people to try Ubuntu for free. Without this service, I probably would've not tried out Ubuntu until much

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 got two