Serving a Localhost-Only Port Through Tailscale via an SSH Tunnel
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How to expose a service bound to localhost on a remote server by chaining a persistent SSH tunnel into Tailscale Serve, plus the systemd unit to keep it alive.
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I write here roughly once a week (or not) not on a content calendar, but organically, based on problems I actually run into.
Browsing all posts, across every topic: research, workflow debugging, homelab infrastructure, reflections, and quick reference notes.
Research & Science. Spatial AI, climate data, and the models behind flash drought early warning. This is where research findings, methods, and technical rigor live. The posts most relevant to postdoc committees, collaborators, and fellow researchers.
Workflows & Code. Debugging logs, data pipeline fixes, and the developer workflow decisions that support the research dev environment setup, tooling for research code, and technical problem-solving directly tied to getting real work done.
Thoughts & Process. Reflections on academic life, research process, and the occasional opinion. The authentic voice behind the CV.
Homelab & Systems. Self-hosted infrastructure, containers, and networking. The systems and architecture work behind my homelab, including Tailscale setups, OS-level configuration on immutable/atomic Linux distros, and self-hosted service deployments.
Notes & Snippets. The small stuff I look up again later so I don't have to re-ask an AI or re-search the same problem twice. Not curated for a specific audience; mostly here for me.
2026
Fixing Invalid Format SSH Key Errors in ChromeOS Secure Shell
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Fixed an invalid format error when importing SSH keys into ChromeOS Secure Shell by addressing missing newline characters and cipher issues.
Running code-server on a remote workstation, bound to my VPN
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I bought a cheap Chromebook on a whim and quickly realized VS Code’s desktop app isn’t something you want to run on a dual-core Celeron with 4GB of RAM.
Exposing an SSH Server on a Non-Tailscale Machine via Tailscale Serve
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I needed to SSH into a shared office server that can’t run Tailscale, so I bridged it through a nearby workstation using Tailscale Services and a TCP forwarder.
Getting Tailscale’s ethtool offload tweak to persist on Fedora uCore
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Tailscale’s UDP GRO forwarding docs assume networkd-dispatcher, but ostree-based systems like Fedora uCore run NetworkManager instead. Here’s what works.
KDE Plasma: Manual Screen Off Button
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I needed to power off my laptop screen on demand without pausing background tasks. Here’s a quick guide to a menu item that puts the display straight to standby.
A small Glance setup with Podman, feeds, and Tailscale. A personal feed!
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I wanted a lightweight, self-hosted dashboard for news, research, and YouTube feeds without the bloat. Glance fits the bill, deployed on a spare Raspberry Pi.
Disable Wifi powersave mode in my laptop (old, seems to be fixed)
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Wi-Fi power-save mode on my Fedora ThinkPad causes latency, jitter, and packet loss on Tailscale and VoIP, plus connection drops after suspend. Here’s the fix.
Trivia Dataset & Tooling Links
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The other day I was interested on creating a big list of trivia questions to play with my friends. I surfed the internet and found these!
The Ultimate List of Free Browser Party Games (No Download Needed)
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A running collection of browser-based, mostly-free party games for group game night: no installs, just send a link in Discord or Zoom and go.
VSCodium Flatpak: Trash + KWallet fixes
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Flatpak sandboxing breaks VSCodium on Fedora Kinoite: trashbin doesn’t work, and it can’t reach KWallet, leaving GitHub tokens stored in plain text.
GitHub multi-account in VSCode
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VS Code doesn’t handle multiple GitHub accounts well. Here’s how to set up separate profiles for work vs. personal accounts using --user-data-dir and KDE launchers.
uCore Bare-Metal install (Butane, Podman, Tailscale)
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uCore is Fedora CoreOS with homelab defaults baked in by Universal Blue: declared upfront in Butane, transpiled to Ignition, consumed once at boot.
Reorder firefox/librewolf profiles in the profile manaer window
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Firefox and LibreWolf let you create separate profiles for work, personal, and gaming logins, but there’s no built-in GUI way to reorder them once created.
Local AI: Ollama + Open WebUI (old)
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A local, private AI setup: Ollama plus Open WebUI, running rootless via Podman Quadlets/systemd. Works well on atomic desktops like Fedora and Bluefin.
Installing Microsoft fonts on a linux desktop distro (no root)
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Time ago I left behind Windows and replaced it with a Linux distro. Of course, they don’t come with the Windows fonts. Easiest fix: drop the fonts into your user directory.
Firefox/librewolf profile manager at start
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Firefox/LibreWolf offers two ways to manage profiles. The classic selector GUI lets me choose which profile opens a link, or reject it on a misclick.
M575 Trackball: Scroll with the trackball instead of the wheel in KDE
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I prefer thumb trackballs with scroll-via-ball, which worked on Windows via AutoHotkey but not Linux, until I found KDE’s built-in implementation.
KDE Plasma: Manual Screen Off Button
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I needed to power off my laptop screen on demand without pausing background tasks. Here’s a quick guide to a menu item that puts the display straight to standby.
Enabling Firefox’s containers
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For some reason, in my Firefox’s installations of my Linux machines the containers function is just not enabled and can’t find it in the settings. This includes Librewolf browser as well. It its very simple to activate.
Filtering clipboard data before pasting into LLMs
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A way to “filter” your clipboard before pasting into an LLM chatbot, using KDE’s clipboard actions to strip names, IPs, emails, and other details.