Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

A few notes on how I finally got rid of my mouse. The why Like many people, I spend the majority of my day working on a computer. I have taken several steps over the years in order to minimize the risk of things like carpal tunnel and RSI. First I learned DVORAK to make typing more natural, I’m a huge fan of it, and being forced to use QWERTY again is never a fun experience. Continue reading

HomelabOS v0.7 - 50+ new services! Release notes and installation video

Today we released v0.7 of HomelabOS! HomelabOS is an effort to make it as easy as possible for anyone to host their own cloud-style services, either at home, or on a server they control in the cloud. The goal is to provide a few simple commands to the user, and handle setting everything up for them as easily as possible. Since the last release we have added over 50 more services, for over 100 services total! Continue reading

Connecting a Grandstream HT80X (HT801 or HT802) to Twilio

I recently had to connect a Grandstream HT802. It’s a small device that can give you an analog phone port when all you have available is ethernet ports which are connected to the internet. It is certainly not plug and play, and is clearly intended for use in a more enterprise setting. It’s what we had, and we needed it to work, so I got busy researching how to do it. Continue reading

Introducing tckr.html - A simple calculator strip. Like ticker tape, with variables.

I’ve been wanting a tool lately where it functions kind of like a blank text document, but when you type some math it actually evaluates the formula for you, letting you save the output for use in further equations. So, last night I built it over the course of maybe two hours. It’s simple. It does what it says on the box. It’s portable (just one .html file). It’s easy. Continue reading

HomelabOS v0.6 - Release Notes and Installation Video

Yesterday I released v0.6 of HomelabOS. HomelabOS is an effort to make it as easy as possible for anyone to host their own cloud-style services, either at home, or on a server they control in the cloud. The goal is to provide a few simple commands to the user, and handle setting everything up for them as easily as possible. It includes over 50 services that can be easily enabled, deployed, and backed up. Continue reading

Live on Twitch

I have recently begun streaming my open source work on Twitch.tv

It’s been fun so far getting to interact with the viewers via the chatroom, and nice to have scheduled, dedicated time to work on my various projects. It’s much harder to just open a new tab and start browsing HN when you have people watching you.

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tor_ssh.sh - One command to enable SSH access via Tor to any Ubuntu server.

At Grownetics we install onsite servers at our clients’ facilities so they can continue to use the system, even if their internet goes out. These servers have fail over connections, and may change connection at any time, and due to the onsite nature of things, we may not be able to have ports forwarded or expect there to be a static IP. In these cases a VPN is a nice thing to have, and we use Tinc for this. Continue reading