I am an avid Tailscale user. I have a homelab running on my 12 year old PC with Proxmox, and I have several containers all hooked up together. It’s great. I can backup my photos, use my NAS, and run whatever linux container I want. And I can access them from all of my devices.
But if I want to share these services with my friends and family, I need them to download Tailscale and access the nodes that I share with them. Friction.
Worse yet, Tailscale isn’t on some devices like the Nintendo Switch or the Playstation. Friction.
I want to be able to play Minecraft with my friends while hosting on my homelab, but I don’t want to portforward 25565 and share my home network IP address like it’s 2011 anymore. Surely, if we have Tailscale magic we’re past that?
Nearly! With a bit of help from our friend iptables and a free vm from Oracle Cloud, we can do some networking magic to get my friends on my homelab minecraft server, and they don’t even know it!
This summer I got a chance to hike the Tour du Mont Blanc over the span of 7 days with my family. We started in Chamonix, hiked between towns, saw beautiful landscapes, and ate the most cheese I think I’ve ever had in the span of a week.
I got a chance to take my friend Carmen’s film camera with me as well as my very own Fujifilm X100VI. I took so many photos. Tag along to see how I fared with minimal training!
It’s been a few years since I’ve been back to India. I was here last in 2021, and before that, in 2020 (yes, traveling during COVID was really rough).
India hasn’t changed fundamentally in the last 4ish years. Where it has changed, though, is incredibly palpable. I’m not sure how much of this is me noticing more and how much of it is genuine change. I’m sure there’s a good mix of both.
I think everyone makes the realization at some point that they aren’t the main character. That often what we want isn’t what is possible because it requires others to believe the same thing. We’re often waiting for others, and that’s hard.
Hello everyone! I decided that, on New Year’s Eve at that, my website needed a makeover and went ahead and used Tucker Siemens’ beautiful Zola based website in order to create my own. I anticipate I’ll want to change this over time to suit my own needs, but I figured I’d start with this for now. I’ve started my journey into Rust and came across his article on writing a TFTP parser in Rust which was beautifully written, well described, and well formatted. That’s the start of my inspiration into writing my own potential series of blog posts like it’s 2005 again.
