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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.

Hello World

First post!

Pfsense Https V2

Planted April 12, 2023

Pfsense Https V2

Well, well, well, exactly 90 days later (the expiration date of the previous HTTPS certificate…) I had to dig in and manually renew the cert. I believe I’m the only one using it, so the impact was quite small.

This time, I started from the PfSense web GUI and just clicked “renew”. It took a really long time and I didn’t notice any popups when it was done. I eventually logged into the unit via ssh and found the log file with cat /tmp/acme/us-pfsense/acme_issuecert.log. Sure enough, the same error as last time. Previously, I killed the acme.sh process, then edited resolv.conf and restarted the acme.sh process. Today, I just edited resolv.conf to Google’s DNS (from Tailscale DNS, 100.100.100.100), and acme.sh took over and renewed the certificate for me.

Hopefully, in 3 months, this doesn’t happen again!