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Extract detailed cost information from network flow logs and present it in an interactive dashboard.

May 23, 2020 - 7 min read

contain your router

I hate home router hardware. I really do. So I set out on building a replacement – without spending any money.

Feb 20, 2020 - 6 min read

better remote desktop

I was looking for something that I could use to log in to my desktop over a not so good WAN link and ended up forking Chromium.

Feb 8, 2020 - 4 min read

slow your network down

Have you you ever wanted to deliberately slow down your network to test your web service over a flaky connection? You can do it with netem, the Network Emulator.

Jan 21, 2020 - 6 min read

raspberry pi security camera monitor

A remote Raspberry Pi-powered display for a video surveillance system.

Dec 28, 2019 - 5 min read

clean up your git

Have you ever found yourself frantically trying to un-commit some enormous binary file you’ve accidentally checked in to version control? Or perhaps you’ve made the mistake of committing your AWS root credentials?

Oct 27, 2019 - 4 min read

postgres <--> google cloud storage

Don’t run a database if you can get away with it.

Oct 13, 2019 - 1 min read

tweaking the gitlab kubernetes installer

GitLab has a lovely feature that can bring up a Kubernetes cluster and install build runners on it with a single click. But you can’t tweak it.

Oct 9, 2019 - 5 min read

using a private container registry with gitlab

In the process of migrating our CI from self-hosted Jenkins to GitLab, I’ve encountered a couple of hurdles.

Oct 4, 2019 - 3 min read

high performance kubernetes load balancing

What began as an investigation into a very stubborn intermittent error turned into a write-up on how to squeeze the most out of your Kubernetes deployment.

Oct 3, 2019 - 9 min read