My first from-scratch 3D printed design (that is actually useful)
I’ve had a 3d printer for a about 8 months now. It’s been fun to download STLs from the internet and print them. We’ve done articulated snakes and planetary gear […]
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Easy way to play Boggle on a flight
I was taking a flight and wanted to play Boggle while onboard. I looked for a simple “show me a Boggle board” app for my phone, and only found ones […]
Keys-To-The-Tunnel
tl;dr – An open source bash script which provisions a server to terminate TLS traffic with a valid certificate and reverse proxies the traffic back to a web based development […]
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 […]
Deploying a PGP SKS server on Ubuntu 18.04
Intro While the venerable Matt Rude has a great write up on compiling the latest SKS server for Ubuntu 18.04, using the one that ships with Ubuntu 18.04 is considerably […]
Support the EFF and others in the face of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
I’ll keep this short and sweet: When I read the headline, “EFF sues to kill FOSTA, calling it ‘unconstitutional Internet censorship law’”, I realized how proud I am to support […]
SYN Shop Class: SSH Keys with free VMs for members
As part of putting some good hardware to use, I taught a class on how to use SSH Keys the other week. As this was the first time I taught […]
USB-C accessories I like (and some I don’t)
After buying USB-C power adapter that didn’t work out, I’d been on the hunt for a replacement. After getting a Chromebook for video chats and music (and curiosity :) which […]
Hardware disabling the mic on WyzeCam v2
I’m testing out using two of these cute, cheap security cameras: It’s the v2 of the WyzeCam and it’s only $25 shipped. While they’re easy to set up, there doesn’t […]
Stubby + Pi-Hole + Quad9 + LXD
Intro For some time now, really since last November, I’ve wanted to do two things: Encrypt all my DNS traffic leaving my house LAN and run an instance of Pi-Hole […]