Replacing two iPods with a Bash script
13 years ago we got an iPod to actually listen to music on the go. It was awesome! Some time later we had our first kid and some time after […]
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How to get the Dell Windows 10 OS Recovery to boot on XPS 13″ 9350
Remember that awesome Dell XPS 13 I got back in 2016? The one that came with Windows 10 but then I wiped clean with Ubuntu 16.04? Well, it’s still goin’ […]
Kids DNS in the Time of Covid
Like all of you parents lucky enough to still have a job during the COVID19 layoffs, I’ve been struggling to balance time at work, personal time, family time and being […]
Punk Rock Band Names April 2020
I’ve had a few of these queued up for a while now, so time to release them into the wild: Antagonizing the Soup – On the beach with friends, it […]
Asterisk, LXD, Wireguard VPN and Remote “Office”
You may remember that a while ago, I set up a fun little PBX for my kids. It was awesome! That setup allowed my partner and I to use our […]
The one page invoicing web app I didn’t write
This past week I had to invoice a customer for some consulting I did for them. Late last year I used some rando site I couldn’t find again to generate […]
Happy Hacker Halloween!
Last year I wanted to be a “Hacker” and code up a solution to show near by access points and nearby phones. I failed. However, I did a good job […]
Punk Rock Band Name: Crispus Attucks and the Saucy Boys
I’ve been working my way through the non-fiction book, “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong“. I just got to the mention of the early […]
NAT and Macvlan on production LXD (plus reverse proxy & SSH Config)
Intro and LXD install At work recently I was charged with rebuilding a bare metal host. Beyond needing to follow our security best practices and be well documented, it was […]
Installing VirtualBox on MacOS via VNC – just use a real mouse
At work the other day I was testing our Ansible instructions on how to get a development environment set up. Given that this was supposed to be platform agnostic and […]