#linux

• 19 Jun 20260000

  Running a Tailscale exit node in a local VM

  I run Tailscale on my laptops, phone and NAS, and wanted to add an exit node so I could route traffic through my own connection when I’m out and about....

• 09 Apr 20261000

  Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS

  I’ve been having a bit of a think about data I’ve left entirely in someone else’s hands. Specifically Google Photos, which has photos going back to 2011 and no local...

• 23 Feb 20261010

  Building a Home NAS from Mostly Spare Parts

  I’ve had a SNUNMU GK3 mini-PC kicking about since early-2023, barely used. An impulse buy that ended up on a shelf, alongside a drawer full of old drives from various...

• 26 May 20224011

  Using a Raspberry Pi to Host a local Visual Studio Code Server

  I tend to work on this blog from multiple machines in my home. These include a desktop PC running Windows, a MacBook Pro running macOS, and a Chromebook with the...

• 28 Mar 20223020

  DevTerm Stuff

  I helped crowdfund the DevTerm from ClockworkPi back in November 2020 and it arrived in January 2022. It’s a nice device, but it’s not perfect. Here’s some of the mods...

• 29 Sep 20211030

  Adding Global Volume Control to the Pocket CHIP

  I’ve been gradually adding internal speakers to each of my Pocket CHIPs lately and found it cumbersome to have to either open alsamixer or use the volume control page in...

• 03 Feb 20210000

  CHIP Stuff

  This page is a changing document. I’ll probably add more notes to it in the future. These are just some notes that I’ve put together in the past about flashing...

• 26 Jan 20210000

  Using ORCA with FluidSynth on the Pocket CHIP

  This post is about using the ORCA livecoding playground on the Pocket CHIP From the ORCA wiki: Orca is a two-dimensional esoteric programming language in which every letter of the...

• 02 Apr 20190000

  Installing Ubuntu on MacBookPro 8,2

• 28 Apr 20143000

  Making suspend on lid-close work with Arch Linux on the HP Chromebook 11

• 28 Mar 20141000

  Compressing PDF files from your Mac or Linux terminal with Ghostscript

  I arrived at this solution recently when looking to compress a massive print-quality PDF for the web. If you search for “compressing pdf files on mac” you’ll get lots of...

• 25 Feb 20143000

  Video: Installing Arch Linux ARM on the HP Chromebook 11

• 09 Feb 201495000

  Installing Arch Linux ARM on the HP Chromebook 11

• 29 Oct 20120000

  Ubuntu (native) on the Nexus 7

• 25 Oct 20040000

  no, no! dont do that!

• 04 Apr 20040000

  and it begins