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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Poon Hill Trek
Be sure to read my prior post about attending the APRICOT 2018 conference in Nepal before the trek! Intro & Highlights This was my first time trekking and my first […]