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Direct Tailscale connections with a HP ProCurve switch

July 3, 2022

A single setting on a HP ProCurve switch prevents direct connections on a Tailscale network.


Sync date and time on an offline Fronius Datalogger

April 9, 2021

What happens when one does not use open standards for common tasks.


Feeds 2020.5.16

May 16, 2020

Feeds 2020.5.16 is now available.


Temporarily disable journalctl output coloring

January 27, 2020

Temporarily disable journalctl output coloring.


Assert in OpenLDAP with password policy overlay

January 27, 2020

Fixing an assert OpenLDAP's password policy overlay


Tryton GTK client inside a virtualenv

September 27, 2018

Setting up Tryton's GTK client inside a virtualenv.


SQLAlchemy automap and custom types

April 3, 2018

Using SQLAlchemy's Automap along with custom types for convenient data access.


GnuPG key transition statement

February 17, 2018

GnuPG key transition statement


Automatically recover a failing USB LTE modem

September 19, 2017

Automatically recover a failing LTE ZTE MF831 USB modem on OpenWRT/LEDE


Export multiple SVG layers

May 7, 2017

How to export multiple layers of an SVG file using xmlstarlet and Inkscape.