Boostrapping Chronicles - Chapter 1
Preface: Why Bootstrap? I’ve written a few short articles about my experience bootstrapping businesses. I’ve both bootstrapped and raised money (both sides of the pond). These are …
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Launching 'Nerding Out with Viktor' - A New Tech Podcast (and the Innovative Podcast RSS Generator)
Hello folks, Viktor here! I’m thrilled to bring two exciting updates to you all today. First, let’s talk about my new project, “Nerding Out with Viktor,” a …
Enough is Enough - Killing the Annoying macOS Word Definition Pop-Up Once and For All
Ever been deep in your workflow on your Mac, meticulously selecting text in Apple Mail or iTerm, only to be ambushed by some random word definition pop-up? Yeah, me too. And …
Securing and exposing local services with Tailscale and Nginx
Securing and encrypting communication on local network devices is a hard problem. Plenty of people tried, including myself in our now sunsetted company WoTT. The root of the …
Wordpress, 'The response is not a valid JSON response' and Cloudflare
In the last 24 hours, I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to debug a simple WordPress installation. When saving any changes, I received The response is not a …
How to grant SSH access to a 'regular' user on OPNsense
I was working on trying to grant a ‘regular’ user SSH access in OPNsense last night. After banging my head against the wall for some time (partially because the …
Solving 'dpkg-divert error unable to change ownership of target file' on Raspberry Pi
I’ve run into the following error myself a number of time in recent time, and just wanted to document the solution for this in case other people run into it too: Here’s …
Solving NUC USB boot issue with PXE boot
I recently wanted to reinstall my trusty old Linux workstation with Debian 10. I imagined this would be a straight-forward thing to do. Just download the ISO and flash it out to a …
Databat is back!
A few years ago, I created a people tracker called Sonar and open sourced it. The goal of the project was to monitor foot traffic in retail environments. After deploying it and …
Achieving success with Home Assistant, Flux and sensors
My philosophy for home automation from the start has been that the best UI is no UI, meaning that I just want things to work automagically. I don’t want to fiddle buttons or …
Restoring access to PosgreSQL after Helm upgrade
If you’ve used PostgreSQL in Kubernetes with Helm, chance are you’ve locked yourself out after performing an upgrade. The reason for this is that if you do not specify …
VMWare Fusion error - cannot open /dev/vmmon
This weekend I needed to use Fusion for the first time since I upgraded to macOS Mojave. Having run Fusion 8 for many years and being happy with it, I was somewhat annoyed with …