Ian's Digital Garden

I've been daily driving Emacs again for a few months as my sole editor. Most things have improved to the point that I'm actually really happy, but I've spent much of my free time over the past few wee...

This weekend, I finally got around to putting that little FreeBSD box to work providing DNS for all machines on the LAN. While nearly all of my web traffic goes through a browser with built-in filters...

This will be a short and sweet post. I'm working on something a bit longer about why Emacs is the perfect system for remote development, and why I think that's important, but I spent part of my Sunday...

I'm working on figuring out what's next for my homelab setup, and since I had vacation this past week, I decided to go for the first piece: a router PC. Not a router as in a sealed piece of hardware, ...

My work at $DAYJOB that involves a lot of work with data pipeline these days. Particularly the design of new and better ones, which help us serve users with better data (more advanced processing, bett...

I run several applications in my homelab using FreeBSD jails. This provides an extra measure of isolation, since the services are connected to the internet. I use AppJail to keep the setup declarative...

Last week I noticed a pattern in some of my shell workloads: run something in a shell, go change some code, run it again. And often I'm looking for some sort of change between runs. One of the most co...

In my last post, one of the things I glossed over was the TLS termination setup. While there are many ways of doing this, and half a dozen tutorials on most of them, you may remember that my setup on ...

For various reasons, I recently decided to start running a homelab again. In this post I'll give a broad overview of the architecture I settled on, and why I made specific choices. I'll try to keep th...

It's not like the world needs yet another WireGuard tutorial, but I thought I'd write one since one of the top SEO-ranked ones I stumbled upon was pretty low quality, with several obvious errors and o...