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Tag: network

  • Dy.lan: turn your local network into a workflow engine

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    Have you ever wished you could turn your local network into a smart routing system? Instead of remembering IP addresses and ports, what if you could use simple, memorable URLs that trigger workflows, redirect to services, or even search your notes? That’s exactly what dy.lan does. It’s a self-hosted URL router with a plugin architecture…

  • My “remote” web development setup

    Recent changes in my health have made it such that some days I’m couch-bound upstairs, while my office (and primary work computer) is in the basement. This has led to some interesting solutions for my daily work. My day job at Oracle I can mostly do from my couch and my work laptop. The only…

  • Checking for a VPN connection part 2

    Ok, so I wrote yesterday about a solution for checking your VPN connection via a network interface change, but it turns out there’s a better way to do it. I discovered it shortly after posting (StackExchange thread), and received a few comments mentioning it. So here’s part two. The command is scutil, used for managing…

  • Checking for a VPN connection from the command line

    I got a question from a reader about how to test if a VPN connection is active and terminate an app if it isn’t. There’s probably a way to do this with Keyboard Maestro or BetterTouchTool or something, but to keep things interesting, I wanted to find a way to do it with just shell…