Tech & Servers
My hobby - technology, servers, and systems administration. Mostly content about Linux and website/web application hosting.
2023
Moving Google Drive files between Workspace tenants I recently had a challenge to tackle: Migrating account data from one Google Workspace tenant to another. I thought this would be an easy task, but unfortunately Google provides no easy method to transfer accounts…
On SoCal Linux Expo (SCaLE) 20x As the conclusion to my 3 weekend conference marathon, including the IISE Western Conference and ITE Student Leadership Summit, I attended the 20th Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 20x) in Pasadena, CA. It's a huge…
Hosting a GlobalPing Probe I recently found out about GlobalPing from a post on a web development forum that I frequent. It's a service created by the same people that made jsDelivr, the super popular CDN for NPM packages. It allows users to…
2022
Offline-first PWA with Svelte & Vite I've always been a big fan of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). They offer app-like functionality without the development / labor overhead that comes with building a traditional app. Plus, I don't need to learn new toolsets…
Google Workspace/MXroute split delivery I'm a happy Google Workspace (G Suite) user - I love the convenience of being able to use Google Drive, Gmail, and other Google services on my own domain. I'm also a happy MXroute user, which allows me to host a ton of…
App iframes not loading in Jira Cloud? I'm continuing my migration from Jira Server to Jira Cloud to conform with Atlassian's server end-of-life in 2024. One issue that has held me back for the last few weeks was the fact that apps didn't really load…
Authentik/Atlassian Access destination URL error If you don't already know, I'm an avid Atlassian Confluence/Jira user and Atlassian has issued an ultimatum stating that support for all Server applications will end in February 2024. So, I've been working on moving…
2021
Replacing AD with Authentik LDAP outpost in Jira For a long time, I've maintained an internal Microsoft Active Directory deployment with 2 domain controllers. However, now that I have some free time, I've decided to shut it down and replace it with Authentik's LDAP…
Easier editing for repetitive data in WordPress Background I've been the leader for my school's robotics team's website sub-team for the last two years. On our website, every student and alumnus gets their own webpage with some information about them, their name…
How to set up or migrate Headscale Update 05/31/2022: Updated the permissions on the chmod to be 600 instead of 077 (which would be very dangerous!) Recently, I discovered an interesting project called Headscale. It promises to be an open-source…
