Optimizing your HiFi Desktop Headphone Setup
Want to know the top audio plugins to optimize your desktop headphone experience? Check out this post, along with hardware recommendations.
How-To: Wireguard VPN on the Raspberry Pi 4
Do you want a wicked fast VPN back to to your home network that seamlessly roams between cellular/LTE and Wifi? Look no further than Wireguard. This blog post will show you how to install and configure Wireguard on a Raspberry Pi 4 and an endpoint such as your phone. I...
MacOS user? Check out these top apps and accessories (2020)
About 18 months ago I requested a MacBook Pro at work, instead of refreshing my Windows Lenovo laptop. I've always been a Windows user, so I was a bit unsure about the switch at first. However, already being in the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Apple...
Time to go Solar! My Guide to Solar System Selection
This post about Solar energy systems is going a little outside of my normal "IT" theme of this site, but it's very technical so I thought I would share. I've been doing a ton of research about going solar found all of the technical details fascinating, as well as confusing...
Redirect Hard-coded DNS To Pi-hole Using Ubiquiti EdgeRouter
​A little while ago I blogged about how to setup Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4 B with DNSCrypt. However, not all devices on your network may play nice with your DHCP server and respect the DNS servers that it provides. Google is infamous for hard coding DNS in products,...
How-to: Pi-Hole Plus DNSCrypt Setup on Raspberry Pi 4
Note: Updated 6/28/2020 to include Gravity-sync and MacOS/iOS Pi-hole control apps. Note: Updated 11/15/2019 to optionally use the ​NextDNS.io DNS filtering and analytics service.Note: Updated 11/1/2019 for Anonymized DNS configuration, added Raspberry Pi 4 firmware update procedure, and apt package removal ​to free up more space.Recently I've become more and more...
VMworld 2019: Managing vSphere Certificates
Notes: Although the notes from the session are not lengthy, the impact of this announcement cannot be understated. VMware has finally brought to the table slimplifed VCSA (and later ESXi) certificate management. I can't wait for the future betas to try out these new features. New APIs for Cert...
VMworld 2019: Project Pacific (vSphere of the Future)
​Session: HBI4937BU; Kit Colbert ​Session: HBI4937BU; Kit Colbert Unifying vSphere and Kubernetes Modern application deployments are accelerating More applications and solutions will be deployed in the next 5 years than in the previous 40. A modern application is complex: Kubernetes cluster, legacy apps, database, serverless. Challenges for developers and IT...
How-to: OpenVPN Server in a Synology Docker Container
​I recently purchased Synology NAS, and wanted to run an OpenVPN server in a container for remote access. Yes, the Synology has a built-in OpenVPN server, but I felt that running a containerized version was more prudent. There are resources such as the Reddit Synology forum covering the Kylemanna OpenVPN...