Noah Bailey

In my career in technology, I’ve heard one specific term so many times that it’s lost all meaning.

Over the past couple of years it’s been difficult to ignore stagnation of the world around us.

I don’t like to cover “current events” very much, but the American government just revealed a truly bewildering policy effectively banning import of new consumer router models.

The following are emails I sent to my member of parliament.

A common usage of CI/CD tools today is to build and deploy a static website to a CDN.

I can’t count the number of times over the last decade I have heard the phrase, “Data is the new oil!”

A key part of operating any safe and reliable system is ensuring that there is a way to recover deleted or lost data in a prompt and consistent way.

Like anybody, I’ve made my fair share of spelling mistakes in my life.

In an absolutely perfect world, we’d never have to restart our server software ever, because it would be flawless.

You’ve got a new idea for a product, or a store, or maybe just a neat pun.

I recently had the pleasure of attending a community meeting.

It was a cold, rainy November night in 2013, and I was hunched up over my desk trying to get my sound card working.

I finally caved and bought one of the no-name 8" mini laptops from Aliexpress.

Database recovery is tricky at the best of times, and it never seems to happen when and how you expect.

A neat feature of almost every modern digital camera is that every single photo you take includes detailed metadata, including all of the photo’s settings including shutter speed, aperture, sensitivity, and focal length.

Taking photos is fun and easy.

This is my phone.

I’ve realized recently that I have to very carefully create boundaries around my hobbies to protect them.

While there are plenty of IOT security cameras that promise privacy, none of them really do.

With Mastodon quickly becoming a refuge for former bird-site users fleeing the new regime, many are considering self-hosting their Fediverse instance.

Anybody who runs an internet-facing webserver has seen their fair share of spammy scanners in the logs.

Several admins and developers like automatically updating their servers with new builds as they become available.

This guide is for an advanced Debian GNU/Linux installation using the ZFS storage system with an encrypted root volume for security and privacy.

If you’ve put Redis on the internet you’ve probably had your box hacked one way or another.

Since late 2018, I had been a full-time Arch Linux user.

I have an odd fascination with radiation… Not to the point that I’m buying “Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials” (or NORMs for short) on eBay, but certainly to the point that I own a digital geiger counter and regularly measure… things… Recently, I…

Log aggregation systems are fantastic.

I recently installed Debian Bullseye on an old Intel NUCCAY6H mini PC I had lying around.

There are lots of “very correct” ways to make your server “very secure.”

The latest announcements for Windows 11 have revealed that the next version of the Windows operating system will have very stringent hardware requirements.

Your brand new cars is loaded to the gills with neat new tech.

One day you’re asked to fortify your home in the name of ‘safety and security’.

There’s a little hotdog stand outside every shopping center, supermarket, mall, and street corner in the world.

I have wanted to run Kubernetes at home for some time, but the main obstacle has been a reliable solution for providing load balancing for ingress or services, and the lack of a reasonable way to manage NAT transparently.

This is the story of the most awful SSL certificate I have ever made.

Across the street from my apartment is a house which has been in a perpetual state of renovation for nearly six months.

There’s always been a kind of temptation from the proverbial ‘other side of the fence’ when it comes to Unix-like operating systems.

One of the worst parts of modern life is how unsatisfying it is to hang up on somebody.

Similar to another post about WAN latency, this is a simple system to automate periodic internet speed tests.

This is a simple, ‘quick and dirty’ way to measure network latency over long periods of time.

Back in August, I discovered novel cyberattacks targeting network infrastructure.

I installed Gentoo Linux on my vintage Thinkpad.

Today I got yet another malware email.

I recently started using a TP-Link C7 router to host a guest network at my house.

About two weeks ago, I upgraded my single node ElasticSearch cluster from 6.8.6 to the latest 7.9 version.

Starting a little less than two weeks ago, my IDS sensors have been detecting the spread of a new botnet.

In my endless quest to essentially create a Cisco Firepower firewall for poor people, I found a bit of a gap in the open source security ecosystem.

The idea of this setup is to protect the Small Systems as well as we protect the Big Systems.

This is a basic procedure for setting up a linux system my preferred way.

Create a systemd user-level config directory: mdkir -p .config/systemd/user/ Create the service unit file: .config/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service [Unit] Description=SSH key agent [Service] Type=simple Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/ssh-agent.socket ExecStar…