Ideas.Offby1

Articles by Chris Rose

How to remotely update the host certificates on a UDM

I combined a few tools -- lego and some helpers -- to get my UDM Pro's SSL certificate to renew automatically

Putting a dockerized service on your tailnet

Putting a single, secured webserver

Updating your NEXUS enrollment after naturalizing as a US citizen

I recently naturalized as a US citizen and I had a hell of a time identifying exactly which steps I needed to take to get my Nexus card updated to reflect my new citizenship status. Here, I list out the steps that were needed in practice to update my card to reflect my dual citizenship.

An External Web Proxy for my Tailnet

Exposing web APIs on my tailnet to the world

Mastodon Hosting, Again

How the wandering.shop is laid out as of today, and where it needs to go next.

Mastodon Hosting, Part 1

I inherited the system admin role for a Mastodon instance a couple of months ago, and recently I've needed to scale it. Here's a bit of how that went (and it's not done yet!)

Into The West

Being an account of the emotional side of leaving an employer that has defined one's career.

Using AWS IoT to provision an IAM role for home lab devices

Being a description of the steps I went through to turn my Raspberry Pi devices into IoT things so that I could eventually have them automatically use letsencrypt.

Snoqualmie Tunnel

I took my bike up into the mountains for the first time since moving to Seattle, which is honestly a tragedy. It's gorgeous up there!

Development Environment (2021)

Some of the things I use in my day to day computering