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AirPlay to Google Home Speakers or any Chromecast enabled speaker ... yes really!

I know what you’re thinking, it’s not possible. There are bunches of posts all over of different ways to try and use AirPlay with convoluted methodologies. I pr...

Nov 2, 2018

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Using acme.sh for individual LetsEncrypt certificates

So you wanted to make your site a bit more secure and start to leverage SSL certificates using the popular LetsEncrypt method. Great...

Oct 1, 2018

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Collecting, storing, and presenting Unifi metrics with the TIG stack (part 2)

Welcome to Part 2 of this article. I hope in the first part you understood a bit more about how we will organize our collected data ...

Sep 25, 2018

docker grafana influxdb snmp telegraf unifi

Collecting, storing, and presenting Unifi metrics with the TIG stack (part 1)

So this article is going to be part 1 of 3 (hopefully). The goal is to walk through how I’m collecting and storing my Unifi metrics ...

Aug 27, 2018

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So I "won" a drone ...

So I was recently on my annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas - I head out every year for BlackHat and DEFCON. Working in the InfoSec field...

Jul 31, 2018

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Increase Max Upload Size in Wordpress

This quick tip is focused around adjusting the max upload limit on a Wordpress site. While I was working on setting this site up, I ...

Jul 21, 2018

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The Homelab Tour Part 1: Hardware

So we’ll start things off here with a first post I’ve been meaning to put together for quite awhile … just haven’t had a blog to pos...