Short story Featured See the sea? The unceasing rain has created tiny puddles across all sands. I lower myself next to one and look down upon it. At its edge, I see myself.
Tinkering Featured Simple head tracking setup A budget head tracking setup for all your flight sim needs!
Short story Featured An Interval of Time I finally attempt to wring out the weariness from my eyes. I will have been here, sitting in this desk chair, for at least twelve hours, having spent all that time reviewing reports. The cup near my computer is empty, save for some dregs that I will always be averse
Homelab Exploring CheckPoint My first impressions, experiences and notes on the Check Point appliances and tools - the little issues I had and some recommendations going forward.
Homelab Proxmox with mailgun I go through changing the mail relay settings on a linux server (Proxmox) and the issues I encountered along the way.
Homelab Featured The joys of setting up Pterodactyl How I set up my pterodactyl panel and the issues I discovered (and solved) along the way.
Homelab Updating ghost A reminder that Docker isn't just "set it and forget it" In a previous post, I discussed setting up this blog, around a year and a half ago. In that time, much has changed in my life and much has changed on the Ghost github repository. GitHub - TryGhost/Ghost:
Video games The eternal Race after the Real You're sitting in a massive auditorium, densely packed with people. All of you are here for the same reason - your favorite publisher is having an expo. They're about to show you their newest, shiniest game. The director steps on stage and tells everyone: it'll have 16 times the detail,
Networking Setting up a MikroTik AP For some time now, I've been renovating my home network, and this past weekend, I decided to upgrade the quite janky WiFi infrastructure that had become very unreliable. I was using an ISP-provided router/modem/AP and a WiFi repeater, both only on 2,4 GHz. The Access Points For
Video games Pathologic 2, or how I learned to stop caring and live in the moment The infiltration was almost successful. Getting in, or rather on, the building was simple once I took into account the nearby crane. A bit of creative construction work later and I was standing on ZenPRO's helipad. Problems arose when I took the elevator down to the 40th floor, where security
Video games (Should) Choices Matter The player is playing their game. You stand before the accused. Two men, each with evidence pointing at them but nothing definitive that you've found. The first is Gerard, a man of principle, soldier at heart. He'd given his life in service to his country. Once he came home, his
Homelab Deploying Ghost Given that this will be a blog mainly focused on the technical side of things, I find it fitting that one of the first posts is how this blog even came to be – from a technical standpoint. Why Ghost? While deciding for a blogging platform, the three main choices I
Random About this... thing? So, this will be a blog. I am hoping it will be at least a semi-active blog, but that's besides the first post here. Currently, it will be available on skret.net, but I may just move it to Straylight at some point in the future. Expect mostly techy blogs,
