Category Archives: Technology
Phoning Home with CGNAT and a UniFi Gateway
I’ve been running some sort of VPN to access my home network remotely for years. It probably started around the time I bought my first laptop. Back then, the only other computer I had was a Windows desktop. I wanted to access the desktop when I wasn’t home, but opening port 3389 to the world […]
icanhazmyownicanhazip.com
Last night I was playing around with routing in my homelab. I wanted a quick way to verify that traffic was reaching a given machine over a given route, and the easiest way to do that, I figured, was to create an icanhazip.com-esque site to display my client machine’s IP address and verify that it […]
Moving a Multi-Volume btrfs File System to a New Machine
A few years ago, I set up a “franken-NAS” using an Atomic Pi (a single-board computer running an Intel Atom processor that was originally intended to be used in some type of robot), a USB3 hard drive “toaster,” and a couple of WD Red hard drives. When I set it up, I decided to use […]
Expanding the File System on a Le Potato with Raspberry Pi OS
I have a Libre Computer Le Potato single board computer that I bought during the pandemic when Raspberry Pi boards were pretty much impossible to get. It has turned out to be a great little machine that’s been so reliable that a year or so ago I decided to move some of my most important […]
Simple Image Galleries With Eleventy
As I continue converting my largest non-work site from Jekyll to Eleventy, I keep coming across things that I did in Jekyll that no longer work in Eleventy. One of these is image galleries. Jekyll and Eleventy have a fundamentally different approach to how they handle files. Jekyll splits all of the files in the […]