Hiya, Pal!

Having just wrapped a post on keeping FreeIPA DNS records correctly reflecting a GCP instance’s dynamic IP address, I figured I would do the same for Cloudflare DNS since I use both. This will be very to-the-point, so post a comment or send an email if any clarification is needed.... [Read More]

The other day I spun up a free-tier e2-micro instance in GCP to play around with something and wanted the ability to access it by a common domain name internally and externally: gcloud.cthudson.com. To address the external access, I created a script on the instance itself to hit the Cloudflare... [Read More]

I love Traefik. So much so that if I can run one of my services through it, I do. Why? Mainly to gain the ability of easy certificate management (via Let’s Encrypt in my case) and not having to remember and forward obscure ports. But not every service I run... [Read More]

Intro Over the years, I’ve run a variety of self-hosted services on a variety of random and not-so-random ports. While you could look at this in some ways as a form of security by obscurity, the reality was that these services needed a unique port on the host that could... [Read More]

Do you find yourself getting tired of referring folks to LinkedIn whenever you need to showcase your professional skillset and accomplishments? Are you bored and looking for a new self-hosted, open source software-based challenge just because? Or maybe you just want something a little more visually appealing without the social... [Read More]