Cloudflare Zero Trust Gateway as an adblocker
I was recently looking for a solution to handle ad blocking at the DNS level. I wanted to use the DNS level specifically (rather than an app or browser extension or something like that) because …
Tech & Servers
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Your sign-in settings don’t meet your organization’s 2-Step Verification policy
Problem By default, new Google Workspace tenants now enforce required 2-Step Verification (2SV) for all users. Users are only given one week to enable and set up 2-Step Verification from the date of their account …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …