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Building a Tech Support Business; My Journey and Lessons Learned

Building a Tech Support Business; My Journey and Lessons Learned

My journey of creating a personalized tech support business, from brainstorming the initial concept to building a website using AI tools like Bolt.new. I also share my experiences and lessons learned while working with technologies like React, Supabase, and edge functions.
A Custom LaunchAgent for Nudge

A Custom LaunchAgent for Nudge

Why we needed to deploy a custom LaunchAgent for our school
On Hugo, the static site generator

On Hugo, the static site generator

So, I published a little blog post about browser extensions to write down how we’re currently doing it, and I thought it went well, since I didn’t look at the site on mobile at all.
How to Enforce Browser Extensions Across your Org

How to Enforce Browser Extensions Across your Org

If you’re a sysadmin or sysengineer at an organization that supports multiple browsers and platforms, this is for you.
Dash Cameras

Dash Cameras

I’ve been using the Viofo A119 Plus Duo for about 3 years now, until…
Working with Jamf School

Working with Jamf School

I’ve been using Jamf School at work for 3 years now. This is the first year (2024) in which I believe ALL of our faculty and staff Macs are enrolled in JS. Previously to the 21-22 school year, the school paid for Jamf Pro to manage the iPads for the K-5th graders and used imaging to deploy the Macs. I arrived in 2021, and that summer we began to move our devices and configurations to Jamf School.
Pfsense Https V2

Pfsense Https V2

Yesterday, I learned how to get Let’s Encrypt working on our PfSense router.
Unifi Controller HTTPS

Unifi Controller HTTPS

Here’s another HTTPS certificate story. This time, a self-hosted Unifi Controller was the invalid certificate annoyance.
A Real pfsense HTTPS Certificate

A Real pfsense HTTPS Certificate

Yesterday, I learned how to get Let’s Encrypt working on our PfSense router.

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A Real pfsense HTTPS Certificate

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A Real pfsense HTTPS Certificate

Yesterday, I learned how to get Let’s Encrypt working on our PfSense router.

First I set ssh to only use public keys, then installed the sudo package and the acme.sh package in the GUI.

https://gaurangpatel.net/installing-nano-in-pfsense (this was very handy, as I am a nano user.)

https://jarrodstech.net/how-to-pfsense-haproxy-setup-with-acme-certificate-and-cloudflare-dns-api/

The kicker was getting /etc/resolv.conf to not use internal DNS routing. We use OpenDNS Umbrella’s free teir and we block the VPN category. acme.sh was trying to hit some DNS addresses like “cloudflare-dns.com” which was getting blocked by OpenDNS.

So, after getting acme.sh all set up with my Cloudflare API token inside of pfsense, it would just loop and loop until I killed the process manually. It would constantly output curl error 60, which turns out it means that the https certificate of the request was insecure.

I believe removing the dnscheck would fix the issue, too. https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/dnscheck

Now, visiting https://my.fqdn.net actually gives no certificate errors!

Since we have two campuses at work, now I get to do it again for the second pfsense box.

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