Ryan Schachte's Blog

Network tunneling seems to be a recurring theme for me, but every time I revisit it, there's something new worth sharing.

It's a new year and I've been messing around with some "new" tech, ClickHouse!

You can view all the demo code here on Github Wireguard is a highly efficient and secure VPN protocol that has been gaining popularity for its simplicity and performance.

I recently purchased 3 x Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q servers to use for my homelab cluster which runs Kubernetes and a bunch of containers for self-hosting open-source software.

The increasing presence of ARM CPUs in the consumer market, notably driven by Apple's introduction of its ARM-based M-line processors (M1, M2, etc.), has influenced the computing landscape for better or for worse.

In 2007 Steve Jobs announced the iPhone which created the forward trend of pushing more things into a single device.

Tunneling has become the hot new thing on the web for things like security, self-hosting and exposing private services to the outside world.

TCP tunneling is useful because you can forward connections that aren't just websites running HTTP(s).

View the Hacker News discussion Large cloud providers do indeed go down and without carefully architecting your systems to handle the scenario of when they go down, not if they go down, you need to have automated service failover integrated into your syst…

Working with Markdown is fantastic because it allows you to write content without worrying about introducing pithy markup and one-off styling rules, which promotes future content mobility.

I'm a big proponent of creating documentation because it not only helps me remember how to use things I've built months later, but it also reduces the friction often present for other members trying to learn how to use and maintain your code.

While developing software, I have been in many cases where I test my changes after a deployment only to be confused by the results.

Background Cloudflare Workers provide a wonderful alternative for deploying applications on the edge in a fast, cheap and reliable way.

Background Table of contents are nice to have on a site full of complex information.