Curtis LaMasters

40, father of 2 girls, geek, work in IT, love cooking food, working on cars, fixing things, building stuff and cycling.

Wildcard Self Signed Certificate for your Homelab or other internal projects...

25 Jan 2025 3 min read SSL

I've been on a homelab kick as of late and get annoyed by the constant barrage of browsers warning me that the site I'm going to isn't

Nginx Proxy Manager Load Balancing

23 Jan 2025 5 min read Nginx Proxy Manager

I 100% struggled with this for a bit now. It's been keeping me from deploying apps with HA or scale in mind. Today, I finally figured it out! Here's

Alpine Linux for beginners...

15 Jan 2025 4 min read Alpine Linux

Alpine linux, from their website, is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. I don't 100% know what that means, so here's their site 😄 about

a simple homelab

09 Jan 2025 8 min read Proxmox

I've tried writing this post a dozen times now and I think I'll go with the most simplistic route of just giving a high level overview. You can ask

Windows Hack - SSH from Command Line

16 Dec 2007 1 min read oldblog

This isn’t really a hack but rather a simple trick to keep your system management tasks as near to each other as possible. The trick I am referring to a the moment