When away from home, it's always nice to be able to access devices, servers, services, on my home network.

In addition to accessing my home network's resources, if I route all of my traffic through my home network, I get the added benifit of avoiding insecure wireless networks.

There have been more than a few …

I was using Webvirtcloud install on my KVM device, but decided to switch to a Docker container, as I've been trying to move as much as possible to Docker, for the sake of simplicity, and easier recovery if/when something goes wrong.

The install was easy, but there were a few commands that had to be run as a different …

Trying to get a NFS mount mounted under /Volumes/ in OSX is more difficult than it sounds.

You basically have to trick OSX into allowing you to mount the NFS share in /Volumes/ by using ../ in the directory listing.

Example:

cd /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes

pwd
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes

Using the ../ trick, which …

As I'd moved from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I was moving most everything to a Docker container, and Transmission (using OpenVPN) was no different.

Under TrueNAS, I'd used a jail (https://www.nodinrogers.com/posts/2020-11-07-freenas-transmission-jail-with-openvpn/), but jails don't exist in Ubuntu, so Docker is the way to go. …

When I first started using/testing Hugo, I was using a Linux virtual machine to run it.

After I decided to use it, I wanted to move it from needing a full virtual machine to a Docker container.

This was especially important, given the nature of Hugo, as a minimal application that doesn't require a lot of resources. …