Along with a few updates to my 2023 dream home office setup (see post here), I also felt it was the time to do a whole house network upgrade. This post covers my network "refresh" that is built to support multi-gig, 10Gbps, PoE and enterprise WiFi. Nothing was broken with...
Introduction I've been working at home for over 8 years, so the pandemic didn't really change a lot for me in terms of where I work. In late 2021 and early 2022 I did a major redecoration of my home office and shared a blog post about that experience. Now...
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Do you own a Synology NAS with DSM 7.0 or 7.1 and run Docker containers? Would you like those containers to use a Wireguard VPN provider for increased privacy and security? If the answer is yes, then keep reading. In order to get Wireguard working for Docker containers on your Synology...
We've all been victims of spam, and the problem seems to only be getting worse. With all the data breaches happening, or companies that sell your contact information to make money, it's no wonder our inboxes are flooded with crap. But there is at least one solution that can help...
As 2023 is soon upon us, I wanted to give a shout out to what I think are the top macOS apps going into the new year. One of the reasons why I'm a fairly recent Windows to Mac convert (about 3 years ago) is the quality of the ecosystem...
I just migrated my home firewall to a Firewalla Gold Plus (4x 2.5GbE ports) and configured it to use NextDNS. For quite some time I've been running NextDNS with my old OPNsense firewall. NextDNS is a cloud based DNS service that is very security and privacy oriented. It lets you configure...
Introduction I've been a remote worker for the last 7 years, and during that time my office setup has evolved. So when COVID hit, nothing changed for me in terms of my work environment. However, what has changed for me is my at-home desk setup. Over the past few months...
For a couple of years now I've been using the Hubitat Elevation C7 home automation hub. I was doing some tweaking this weekend, and I wanted to setup SMTP and SMS notification channels. I had been using Twilio for SMS, but it wasn't a free service. And I also wanted...
A few months ago I saw several people I follow on Twitter exclaiming about their Stream Deck. I'm not a "streamer" nor do I do Twitch, but the concept of physical buttons to run commands on my Mac was very interesting. My button configuration is ever evolving, but I thought...
I'm a fan of the Microsoft Edge browser for the Mac, and I use it as my daily driver. Sometimes you want to open an InPrivate session directly from the Mac dock. While not difficult to do, it took some research to do it exactly how I wanted. Other tutorials...
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the app OpenIn, the developer, nor did anyone ask me to review the app. I just liked it so much, I wanted to spread the word.The other day I was on Reddit and saw a list of top Mac apps for 2021, and someone...