DIY Website Font: A Calligraphr Success Story

2025-09-06
DIY Website Font: A Calligraphr Success Story

To personalize his website, the author embarked on a quest to create a custom handwritten font. Initial attempts using open-source tools like Inkscape and FontForge proved frustrating due to their clunky UIs. He switched to the paid service Calligraphr, which uses a print-write-scan workflow. Calligraphr's intuitive interface and powerful features enabled efficient font creation. The author praises Calligraphr's fair pricing and user-friendly data handling, contrasting it favorably with other services.

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Four Years with Tailscale: Advanced Tips and Tricks

2025-08-10
Four Years with Tailscale: Advanced Tips and Tricks

This post details four years of experience using Tailscale, a WireGuard orchestration service, for connecting disparate devices, servers, and apps. The author covers basic connectivity, SSH support, MagicDNS, service exposure (funnel and serve commands), custom authentication with KeyCloak, and ACLs and tags. The post also recounts troubleshooting experiences, such as incorrectly using tags and losing SSH access. Best practices are outlined, and the free personal plan is highly recommended.

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