Guides

Standalone, hand-styled deep-dives — longer than the blog posts, each a self-contained walkthrough you can work straight through. Real commands, real gotchas, generic-enough details to paste into your own setup.

  • applytrack on the Tailnet — putting my self-hosted job-application tracker behind tailscale serve: real cert, no 0.0.0.0, identity-based access — while interviewing at Tailscale.
  • Tailscale on a UniFi Dream Machine Pro — turn your UDM Pro into a Tailscale subnet router so every device on your LAN is reachable from anywhere — no port forwarding, no public exposure.
  • Surviving the Power Cord (tmux × Claude) — keeping Claude Code sessions alive when your laptop keeps cutting out, and the one truth about tmux nobody tells you.

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