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Recently, I’ve been using a GL.iNet Beryl travel router for my home network. I purchased it for a road trip, then liked it well enough to continue using it as my primary home router. I use its guest network feature for my IoT devices, to keep them segregated from my main LAN (I also use it as my only 2.4 GHz network, since I don’t really trust band steering). This works well enough,…
Update 3/28 : The devs have announced that the auth system is to be deprecated. See details below . About a month ago, I went looking for a dashboard for my homelab —something to help visualize the services I run. I found Dashy , a popular (14.6k GitHub stars) dashboard designed for self-hosters. I deployed it and started configuring it, but noticed that something about its authentication felt off…
tl;dr: Don’t put yourself in a position where you ignore alerts. Don’t update your software without reading release notes. And especially don’t make assumptions about error handling in bash scripts! I recently discovered a failing backup that, upon deeper investigation, turned out to be a chain of three failures. I’ll explore how it happened, why it went on for far longer…