Here’s an easy way to create a QR code image you can print out and display so people can quickly join your WiFi network. In Debian, install qrencode. apt install qrencode Once it’s installed you...

This was much easier than I thought. Using the following docker compose file, you can run SQL Server locally in docker. It is critical to use a volume for the mssql directory, otherwise you will lo...

This is a bit of an extention to this tailscale blog post. I would start there to get an idea of setting up tags and auth, as well as just information about exactly what this does in more detail. ...

This is a helpful way to keep your containers from running out of space. Create a auto-prune cron job and put it in etc/cron.daily. cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/cron.daily/docker-prune #!/bin/b...

This is a short little reminder for myself, when using curl to make requests to local things and spoofing SNI, use the following command. curl -vik --resolve google.com:443:127.0.0.1 https://googl...

I saw a very interesting video by Alex Kretzschmar about how to add a nice colorful login banner using Figurine that displays the hostname. I thought this would be helpful when working with several...

Recently I was troubleshooting slow bootup times with an LXC container I’d created. The container previously was running well, but after an update seemed to be running slowly. I restored it from a ...

Often times when using a tool like rsync to make backups you end up with lots of archives, and no way to keep them managed over time without a manual process. Prune is a simple tool that lets you r...

Introduction The purpose of this backup process arose from a moment when I broke my phone. My phone was my lone source of MFA/2FA codes via the authenticator app, and I genuinely felt terror tha...

Email is often a critical component notification for jobs and other things in linux. This is how I set up Postfix on most of my instances. This guide is geared towards Debian based distros but can ...