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If you don’t already know, I run a web hosting business. In the fall last year, I moved into a full colo rack. In the colo, I run a mix of my own stuff plus my business (after all, I have the space, I might as well use it!). But one thing kept cropping up […]

It’s been nearly a month since I was diagnosed with ADHD-PI. To say it’s been interesting is an understatement. On one hand, I am happy I finally have answers for everything that I felt was wrong with me. On the other, I have answers for everything that is wrong with me. The meds My doctor

This is a deviation from my normal technical babble. Instead, I’m going to dive into mental health for a little bit. Specifically, mine. I don’t think we talk about or care enough about mental health in the United States. And when we do talk about it, there’s a lot of negative stigma around it. So

Or, the laptop Apple should have given us in 2016. I’m not much of a tech “reviewer”. In fact, I gave my own little review of the MacBook Pro M1 earlier this summer. At the end of that review, I said: Ultimately, I am going to be returning this laptop back to Apple. As much

There are valid reasons for wanting to override DNS on your network. Maybe you’re in a corporate environment and you want to prevent people from using outside DNS which would render AD useless. Maybe you’re in a school and you want to make sure students are filtered appropriately. Or maybe at home, you just want

This is something I never thought I’d actually need until the other weekend I went out of town for a wedding. Everything was going smoothly with my remote access until 7:41 AM on Saturday and suddenly I couldn’t reach anything. I try to pull up my doorbell camera – no connection. I try to reach

This post is inspired by a popular tech YouTuber teaching what is essentially a reverse proxy. While there is a time and a place for such technologies, your home network is not one of them. He starts off by saying you have a lot of stuff at home and you might want to give access

So in a first for me, I correctly predicted macOS Monterey. Called it. https://t.co/CjFIoHqIlT — TechTrav (@TechTrav) June 7, 2021 After getting the developer beta installed on my test Mac, I started poking around. iCloud+ Since I pay for iCloud storage, I got iCloud+. Some of these features are really awesome! The major features here

This is going to seem like old news… “Oh you’re reviewing a MacBook Pro with a M1?” Well, not really. I’m sharing my experience with using a MacBook Pro M1 as a power user and real world performance. I’m not going to sit here and regurgitate Cinebench scores. These scores mean nothing. They’re just benchmarks

I wanted to have a “road warrior” VPN that would give me access to my entire network. I used to have an OpenVPN server running on a pfSense virtual firewall at my colo. I recently switched that over to OPNSense so I no longer had a working VPN solution. This was also over complicated. Here’s