Posts
All the articles I've posted.

knockd
Updated:Close your ssh service until you really need it, using knockd to manipulate your iptables firewall.

Cloudflare - Restrict Tunnel Access by IP Address
Updated:This wasn't as obvious as I expected. Under Zero Trust, I created an application matching my hostname, but it always wanted to send me a one time password

Audio Transcribing
Updated:I found myself in a position of recording an audio conference and then wanting to get a transcription of the discussion. On my Android phone, there seems to be a plethora of apps in the store you can use, but my content was an hour and a half long. The best I could get was 5 minutes of transcript for free, or buy minutes.

Clerk Authentication
Simple and secure user authentication, complete with everything you need out-of-the-box to provide a secure experience for your users.

Network Diagrams and Shapes
Updated:In the world of Office 365 I find myself using a crippled version of Visio. Any shapes I want are part of an upgrade package, so that's not going to happen

10 Years of Blogging
I've managed to ramble on for 10 years!

WD My Passport and LUKS
I found a 4TB WD My Passport drive, and thought I'd see if I could put it to use on Linux. I'm not going to even try using the built-in AES256 encryption,

Zombie Laptop
Updated:Some years ago my brother bought an Asus K53E laptop, 4GB RAM, Intel Core i7-2670QM. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium. It was a slow and tedious thing,

Nginx and LDAP Authentication
Updated:We want a little more control over some of our reverse proxies and wanted to place a little extra burden on the users as possible. To do this we chose to u

Database Backups to B2 Using Restic
You can always back up the databases to a file and then back up those files to Backblaze B2 or AWS S3 using restic, but how about streaming a backup direct