Scripting the Aruba Instant On API
Pulling MAC address to friendly-name pairings from the unofficial Aruba Instant On cloud API in 2026, with a working Python script.
puddle.town
The puddle.town blog. Mostly about Linux and technology.
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Upgrading Mastodon to PostgreSQL 17
Using pg_upgradecluster makes it a seamless process.
Thoughts on Meshtastic
There's lots of bugs.
What is spvsr.wtng.io?
The domain spvsr.wtng.io is used by the Ting power monitoring device.
Mastodon Mac Clients
A roundup of macOS Mastodon clients.
Security Onion on Proxmox
I'm trying out Proxmox VE on the spare workstation in the garage. The idea is to use this as the bottom-layer hypervisor, and then to install VMs on top as needed. I like it a lot so far, and had no trouble setting up storage and the first three VMs for testing -- Ubuntu, PopOS and Elementary. For the real challenge, I decided to install Security Onion . The challenge here is getting the second…
Tuning Tor on Linux
I used to spend quite a bit of time as a volunteer Tor relay operator. At one point I ran one of the larger relay families. I've moved onto other things, mostly because the bandwidth costs were too expensive, but thought I'd share some of my notes on how I tuned Tor and Linux for performance and kept out certain types of malicious traffic. Configuring /etc/tor/torrc torrc is the main config file…
Disabling Tailscale Logs
I really like Tailscale for easily connecting disparate systems together via encrypted Wireguard tunnels, but one of the few complaints I have is that it logs a lot of information by default. I would classify the logs as debug-level info. It's not something I really feel I need to share with Tailscale Inc or its employees. Furthermore they appear to be shipped off to AWS. I have no idea if they're…
Void Linux
I've been testing Void Linux recently, and thought I'd take a few minutes to write about my experience. Void is an independent, open source Linux distribution with a unique package manager and an init system written from scratch. The Github repos are here . Void uses a "rolling release" strategy; there are no specific releases or versions. You can update packages daily or whenever you chose, and…
Hello World
Hi. I live in rainy Portland, Oregon. I play guitar and keys and enjoy live music, video games and pixelart, among other things. I tend to migrate from place to place and try to stay pseudo-anonymous online as much as possible. For the day job I work in tech as a software engineer and linux admin. My Mastodon instance is at the root of this domain at puddle.town . This blog will mainly be for…