Portable, headless Raspberry Pi development
The Problem Back when I was writing Cattrotar on a Raspberry Pi (or really, any other of the myriad times I was hacking on a small embedded device), I often […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Easy Pi-Hole and Stubby on Orange Pi Zero & Raspberry Pi 3
Skip to the install guide if you just want to know how to set up your Pi easily ;) Otherwise, read on for a little background. Introduction I’ve been deep […]
Bootstrap SSH on Ubuntu Core with out Ubuntu SSO credentials
I was playing around with Snaps and I wanted to try out Ubuntu Core as well. I still had some of those Orange Pi Zero boards laying around and when […]
Teaching Kids About Busy Signals with a PBX on LXD for $15
The other day the kids and I were at our local, awesome Goodwill store. I guess they’re all awesome, eh? I was looking over the pile of small electronics while […]
From zero to LXD: Installing a private compute cloud on a Cisco C220 M4SFF
Introduction Having some nice server grade hardware on hand, I knew I needed to put it to good use. I’m talking about the Cisco C220 M4SFF: This lil’ guy comes […]