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...
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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...
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/...
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...
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,...
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...
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&...
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...
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...