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2024

# All the code is wrapped in a main function that gets called at the bottom of the file, so that a truncated partial download doesn't end up executing half a script.

tailscale.com/install.sh

# 29th April 2024, 9 pm / tailscale, bash

2021

How to secure an Ubuntu server using Tailscale and UFW. This is the Tailscale tutorial I’ve always wanted: it explains in detail how you can run an Ubuntu server (from any cloud provider) such that only devices on your personal Tailscale network can access it.

# 26th February 2021, 8:31 pm / tailscale, ubuntu, security, dogsheep

2020

Restricting SSH connections to devices within a Tailscale network. TIL how to run SSH on a VPS instance (in this case Amazon Lightsail) such that it can only be SSHd to by devices connected to a private Tailscale VPN.

# 23rd April 2020, 6:28 pm / tailscale, til, security, ssh

Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale. Really useful in-depth reviews of the tools Tailscale are using to build their remote company. “We decided early on—about the time we realized all three cofounders live in different cities—that we were going to go all-in on remote work, at least for engineering, which for now is almost all our work. As several people have pointed out before, fully remote is generally more stable than partly remote.”

# 2nd April 2020, 2:48 pm / remote, tailscale

Weeknotes: Covid-19, First Python Notebook, more Dogsheep, Tailscale

My covid-19.datasettes.com project publishes information on COVID-19 cases around the world. The project started out using data from Johns Hopkins CSSE, but last week the New York Times started publishing high quality USA county- and state-level daily numbers to their own repository. Here’s the change that added the NY Times data.

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