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View all tags— Homelab — 3 min read
Cloudflare has introducted a fairly novel solution to this problem by combining their Cloudflare for Access offering protecting SaaS services with their Tunnels (formerly Argo) product to tunnel on-prem services to the Cloudflare Network. Read more...
— Blog — 1 min read
Well, it's been about two years and I wrote on this even less than I expected I would, but I decided to give it a little tech swap under the covers. Read more...
— Microsoft — 3 min read
In the last few weeks, I've noticed some key differences from my internship experiences but also some similarities. I've also refelcted a little on how my education prepared me for this job and what I'd do differently if I were still in school. Read more...
— Code — 1 min read
Like many others, my old apartment building in Montreal had a phone based intercom system to buzz guests into the building. The intercom could be given entries with the names, unit numbers and a local phone number for each resident. This seems like a pretty sound system on the surface, but living in a student-dense area a few problems arose. Read more...
— Talks, Hackathons — 2 min read
A few weeks ago, I have the pleasure of attending and speaking at MLH's Hackcon VII. This was my second time attending the conference and this time, having semi-retired out of the McHacks organizing team, I was much more focused on making connections and appreciating the people there than frantically attending every talk I could. The hallway track turned more into the campfire track and before I knew it we were already packing our bags to head home. Read more...
— Homelab, Networking — 2 min read
A frequent conversation that happens when people come into my apartment shortly after they walk in: 'What is THAT!?' as they point at my server rack in the corner of my living room. I intent to cover what the rest of my homelab does and why I adore tinkering with it in a later post but I wanted to start with the piece of enterprise hardware that I got started with first: the networking. Read more...
— Tools — 4 min read
The things I carry every day in my backpack and pockets represents a carefully selected and curative collection of (mostly electronic) items that help me get stuff done on a daily basis. I’ve broken this down into what’s in my backpack which is almost always with my while the contents of my pocket represent the bare minimum of things that I carry at all times. Read more...
— Homelab, FreeNAS — 3 min read
I'm a data hoarder and I have a problem. My local storage infrastructure built on FreeNAS has been rock solid but unfortunately as my local capacity has grown, I had issues scaling an appropriate offsite backup. Today, I'm solving this. Read more...
— Blog — 2 min read
For a while, I've had building a simple personal blog in mind. Finally, after bookmarking numerous comments, tweets and reddit threads from others on how they've set their own blogs up, I've done it myself. I think it's only appropriate that the few post on my new blog be slightly meta and about the blog itself, so... here it is! Read more...
— Hackathons, Productivity, Tools — 4 min read
Having the right tools for the job can make or break any effort. Community building and Hackathon planning are no different. When our leadership team (affectionately referred to as Hackboard) transitioned in April 2018, we decided to take a top down look at the tools we use to get the job done and make a conscious effort to re-evaluate every single one. This this is a summary of the first few tools we settled on. I might follow up with a second post going over some of our other choice such as Hubspot, Zoho Mail, Missive, and more! Read more...