An Ode to Tailscale

A bit of context A while back, the CEO of Tailscale, Avery Pennarun, gave a tech talk to the Mines ACM club. On top of being incredibly star struck, this talk was truly awe-inspiring. There was one point he especially stressed that continues to echo in my head. I am going to horrifically butcher a quote he gave, but it was something to the effect of: Back in the early days of technology, the easy…