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The Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells · Series · 7 books

I loved Murderbot! Everything from the world that it was set in to the cynical internal dialogue of Murderbot. I ripped right through these in the Spring while I was in Florida. Recommend them to anyone who enjoys sci-fi mixed with quirky cynical commentary.

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · Series · 4 books

Didn’t really get hooked on the first book but they really pick up. The audiobooks are top-notch, and I had to double check that they were in fact voiced by only Jeff Hays and not an ensemble cast.

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How I Use Tailscale

What is it?

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

It has a very generous free tier that includes most of the features included in the higher paid tiers while limiting you to 100 devices–more than enough for my use cases.

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Setting Up Hugo on Cloudflare

I wanted to start off by sharing how I set up this my original homepage. I was impressed by how easy it was to do, especially since I’m new to both Hugo and Cloudflare Pages.

I followed the excellent documentation that Cloudflare provides. If you’re not married to the idea of using Hugo, they also provide great documentation on other frameworks.

One thing I missed the first time I pushed updates to my repo was setting the version of Hugo. The version that Hugo provides is older and didn’t work with my chosen theme.

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Hello World

Console.Write("hello world");

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