David Crawshaw, co-founder of Tailscale, has fond memories of working with this old-school network architecture in the 90s. He used Netware when he was a kid growing up in Northern Australia. So, he ...

Since Apple sunsetted macOS’s remote network connector, Back to My Mac, I have looked for a system that would provide full access to devices on my home LAN when I was outside the network (see “Apple ...

Simply put, Tailscale provides secure VPN access to people who hate VPN tools. I’ve said previously that their team looked at everything that was wrong, complex to configure, and challenging to use ...

Dipping my feet in the self-hosting trend is great. But when a browser pops the "not secure" error, I worry about running my humble stack over HTTP, even though it's on my local network. Since I share ...

Throughout my career as a software developer and a freelance tech blogger, remote access has been essential. For years, I relied on TeamViewer, but as my work evolved, I needed something faster, more ...