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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

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

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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...