Adam Conway

1 week ago | xda-developers.com | Adam Conway

A reverse proxy is one of the best ways to access your self-hosted services, as tools such as Caddy and Nginx Proxy Manager will enable you to host services on various subdomains of a domain that you own, complete with their own SSL certificates. The downside of this is that, if hosted on a public IP address, your connections will be routed out of your home and then back in, or they may require you to keep a VPN like Tailscale always connected. There's a way around that, though; a Pi-hole.

1 week ago | xda-developers.com | Adam Conway

I have a lot of storage accumulated over the years. From old HDDs and SSDs, I've got terabytes of storage just lying around. With some of them, they're simply just older storage drives I used myself, but with others, they're drives that were given to me by friends or family, often removed from machines that were used in their respective companies.

1 week ago | xda-developers.com | Benjamin Zeman |Adam Conway

I’d been thinking about switching browsers for a while. The idea popped up every so often — usually after some small frustration — but it never made it to the top of my to-do list. Chrome has been my primary browser, and it mostly worked fine. Firefox and Safari were there on my MacBook when I needed them. On my Windows machines, it was just Chrome and Firefox. I can’t stand Microsoft Edge, so I’ve never seriously considered it. Then, one day, I opened Chrome and was hit with a wall of ads.

1 week ago | xda-developers.com | Adam Conway

For those who like to host their own home lab, it can be difficult to choose the most convenient way to access all of your services when you're travelling. Some people opt to expose their services to the wider internet and use a tool like Authelia or Authentik to gain access, while others rely on the built-in protections individual applications have.

1 week ago | xda-developers.com | Adam Conway

I was considering upgrading the backbone of my home LAN for a while. While I "only" have gigabit broadband, both my PC and server have 2.5 GbE ports, and I figured it was about time I actually made use of them, especially given that my ISP is rolling out 2 Gbps broadband (though at a significant premium). I didn't want to invest a whole lot of money, so I scoured the internet for a small and cheap 2.5 GbE managed switch to upgrade from my 1GbE unmanaged switch.