VTXtruder

• Tronxy X5SA-500 Pro Bed Leveling Oct 25, 2023 - 6 min read

  A while ago, I purchased a Tronxy X5SA-500 Pro large format printer. My intent was to print really large objects, like replacement panels for motorcycles, think Goldwing battery covers. What I could not have known is that this printer would become an engineering challenge and the bane of my existence… When I first got the printer, I had the usual new toy excitement. I quickly assembled, leveled, and tested the printer. Read more

• Securing Self-Hosted Resources With Cloudflare - Part 2 Apr 7, 2023 - 11 min read

  Welcome to Part 2, Electric Boogaloo! Part 2 of anything must be called Electric Boogaloo. I don’t make the rules, that’s just the way it is. In Part 1, we covered the following. Setting up a reverse proxy. Setting up your CloudFlare DNS and SSL/TLS certificates. Setting up your virtual hosts and enabling SSL/TLS on each virtual host. In this part, we will cover the following. Enabling SSH. Setting up dynamic DNS (DDNS). Read more

• Securing Self-Hosted Resources with CloudFlare - Part 1 Nov 21, 2022 - 10 min read

  I know, I know. There are other guides out there on this topic already. The problem is none of them covered my specific use case and I like my way a little better. As you may or may not know, CloudFlare only forwards http and https requests on specific ports. The standard guides all have you mapping one app per port. What I don’t want is a bunch of services all on different ports, and then having to remember each app’s associated port. Read more

• Welcome! Nov 21, 2022 - 2 min read

  Hello! Welcome to my little site on the internet. This site is an attempt to restart something I had done years ago; documenting things I find useful, interesting, or fun. Quite some time ago, I started blogging about my experiences and experiments in amateur radio. Over time, I put the hobby aside as life got in the way. I had wrongly assumed that no one else found the information interesting, so I killed the site. Read more