Carson's Random Ramblings

HomeLab v2: The Network Upgrade

At the end of last year, I got my hands on a few VLAN-capable Cisco APs. It was then that I decided to start going down the rabbit hole of VLANifying my HomeLab and home network, with everything finally coming together almost 5 months later.

Brain Dumps

Homelabbing with Cisco Aironet APs

Possible to have enterprise-grade Wi-Fi in your home? Absolutely! Is it easy..? That's to be determined.

Brain Dumps

Hardware Security Keys... The Future of Computer Security

I am a huge supporter of MFA or Multi-factor Authentication. Nearly all of my accounts have MFA enabled...

Misc

Subscribe Button

After some investigation, I found that in the current state of the Ghost CMS, the subscribe button does nothing but collect email addresses....

Brain Dumps

Roadmap

What happened to the static site that was live at carsonseese.com? So, where exactly am I going with this blog? Where am I headed with my Homelab? Hopefully this post addresses all those questions.

Homelab Projects

Self-Hosted GitLab

It's getting to the point where I have more server resources than I know what to do with. Because of this, I have been looking for more and more services I can self-host. My recent project has involved setting up a GitLab instance...

Project Guides

Solving the College Subnet problem with ZeroTier

School Wifi is bad enough, and with the way modern networks are sub-netted, I thought doing things like streaming games with Nvidia GameStream, using applications like Synergy, or accessing a local Plex server was near impossible... before I found ZeroTier.

Project Guides

What to do with a GL-AR150?

Recently, I stumbled upon the GL-AR150, a small "travel router" by GL.iNet marketed towards those traveling who wanted a VPN endpoint or pocket router that was small, had Wireless and Ethernet capabilities, and was reasonably priced.

Tutorials

Nginx Reverse Proxy Setup Ubuntu 18.04

So, you say you want to host websites and web applications on Linux? That's awesome, but hang on a sec... It's only possible to port forward to a single server, so how is this possible?.. Nginx to the rescue!

Homelab Projects

HomeLab v1.0.0

I have been tinkering with and tearing apart all kinds of computers, electronics, and my toys (much to my parents dismay) for most of my life. Around that same time, my grandfather introduced