Development 1 min read

Pausing Packer's PowerShell Processes

When using Packer to build virtual machines, sometimes I just want to pause it and poke around. Here's how I achieve that.
Networking 3 min read

Making Sense of WireGuard

I recently decided to try out the hot new VPN protocol on the block, WireGuard. It took me about 2 hours of debugging and diagnostics to make sense of things, so I'm logging my notes here for future reference.
Development 4 min read

Using and Extending GitHub Actions

I got into the GitHub Actions beta! Here's what I've learned so far.
Development 2 min read

Automatically generating assembly binding redirects

If you're sick of System.IO.FileLoadExceptions, you've come to the right place!
Containers 1 min read

Building Docker containers behind a proxy

How do you configure Docker to use a proxy when building a container, but not when running it?
Networking 8 min read

A Ubiquiti Home Network

For a while, I've been eyeing an upgrade of my home network. I recently did that by introducing Ubiquiti gear, and (spoiler alert) it's been great.
Development 1 min read

Setting a Default InputFormatter in ASP.NET Core

In ASP.NET Core, you can write custom formatters to serialize or deserialize objects from/into request bodies. But how do you pick one without a Content-Type?
Cloud 1 min read

Controlling a Kubernetes cluster remotely

I didn't set up Kubernetes exactly as I intended to use it, so here's how I recreated the SSL certificates.
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