An average guy's IT (mis)adventures

The past 2 weeks I spent some time configuring tailscale: think of it as your own personal, invisible, and very secure "home-lab" on the internet where only your trusted devices can connect and share information.

But, since it uses wireguard under the hood, and I had already set it up on my VPS - see post1 and post2 - I thought! “Why can't I just do this myself, without relying on a third-party service?”

So, first of all I did a quick test, by sending some text to a “termbin” service (it's like a pastebin but for shells) I run on my VPS. I set it to listen only on the wireguard interface, then activate the wireguard tunnel on my desktop PC at home, opened a shell and sent the following:

echo “termbin test” | nc 172.16.100.1 9999

It worked like a charm, so I immediately started thinking about the whole home-lab thing. And here I am, connected and happy.

Mostly a personal reminder about this cool way to share files on an XBackBone instance, like sharer

• github issue
• App

Download the .txt attachment.
Edit the example TXT, add your token to
"TOKEN HERE" and your domain to "DOMAIN.HERE".
Rename it to .json extension.
Download the app.
Open it and click the dots on the upper right.
Select "Import / Export".
Select import from file, and select the JSON file.