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Tailscale devices with a custom domain - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2023/tailscale-custom-domain/
2023-11-01T00:00:00.0000000
What I found was coredns-tailscale, a plugin for coredns that effectively maps Tailscale device names onto a custom
domain
. The coredns-tailscale project has been around for about a year, and I later discovered that it had been mentioned in the Tailscale newsletter from October 2022 . I guess I either missed seeing it or just wasn't looking ...
Google Domains - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2014/google-domains/
So in hijacking your
domain
, an attacker can in turn take over your email, and from there can attack many of your other accounts. So if you use an email address at your personal
domain
, it's even more important that you choose a
domain
registrar with very strong security. I don't know when Google
Domains
will be out of limited beta.
willnorris.com
willnorris.com
Tailscale devices with a custom
domain
Nov 1, 2023. One of the things that kinda blew my mind my first week at Tailscale was MagicDNS. I had been using Tailscale at home for a while, but just hadn't actually used MagicDNS at that point. Caddy snippets for static
sites
Oct 27, 2023
Consolidating domains
willnorris.com/2008/consolidating-domains/
It is what most people will type, especially into teh Google, and Google likes it when a search term is in the
domain
name. Will Norris November 14, 2008 if people search for "will norris", either
domain
will work equally well. Stephen Paul Weber November 14, 2008 I prefer will.norris.name I'm a firm believer that personal websites should ...
No one cares about your URLs (so buy a domain)
willnorris.com/2013/no-one-cares-about-your-urls/
In response to Posterous shutting down, Tantek made the comparison to Pownce having been acquired and subsequently shuttered by Six Apart back in 2008. There's actually something very interesting about the blog post announcing Pownce shutting down.At the end of the post, Pownce co-founder and lead engineer Leah Culver notes,
Caddy snippets for static sites
willnorris.com/2023/caddy-snippets/
2023-10-27T00:00:00.0000000
Fetching go packages. In February 2015, I wrote Fetching Go Sub-Packages on Static
Sites
.Unsurprisingly, I still use my own
domain
in the import path of all of my go packages. I currently use Hugo to generate my
site
, so I have a custom layout for my go package files which reads relevant metadata from the page front matter and populates the necessary meta tags.
Free Your ID - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2007/free-your-id/
This top level
domain
was originally setup for use by individuals in this fashion, but it never really seemed to catch on (at least from my perspective). This new service allows you to register your name (typically first.last.name), and they provide email forwarding, web forwarding, and best of all OpenID.
Hum - A Personal URL shortener for WordPress - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2011/hum-personal-url-shortener-wordpress/
It's designed to be run on a personal
domain
. It use NewBase60 encodings to keep the URLs both short and human readable. And it uses the same content-type partitioning of the URL space. The key difference is in the use of database keys. One of the design principles of Whistle is to have algorithmically reversible URLs.
Setting up a web development environment
willnorris.com/2005/dev_environment/
(An important thing to note here is that you can't use a real
domain
name to access the development
site
. You could however create your own top level
domain
to use such as "example.dev", but it's certainly not necessary.) Once you've decided on a host name, you need to tell your computer that this name should resolve to the local machine.
Archive - Will Norris
willnorris.com/archives/
No one cares about your URLs (so buy a
domain
) Feb 19, 2013; WordPress OAuth Screen; Upcoming WordPress 3.6 features; 2012. Rebuilding the Web We Lost; All https, all the time Dec 16, 2012; The Links We Lost Dec 14, 2012; indie two-factor auth Jun 13, 2012; Google+ Profile Link Chrome Extension Feb 4, 2012; 2011. Outsourcing comments to Google+ ...
Identity and Identifiers
willnorris.com/2010/identity-and-identifiers/
For $11 a year, you could get a third-level .name
domain
of the form firstname.lastname.name. They would also forward email sent to firstname@lastname.name, and later added a few other identity related services like XFN links and redirects to your social network profiles.
A place to call home - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2013/a-place-to-call-home/
I have hosted my primary identity online on a
domain
that I control for 11+ years (8 years on
willnorris.com
, and three years on a previous
domain
). In that decade, I have used at least four different content management systems (homegrown, blosxom, Movable Type, and WordPress), and have hosted it on close to a dozen different servers.
Supporting WebFinger with Static Files and Nginx - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2014/webfinger-with-static-files-nginx/
Because this is my personal
domain
, I can easily hardcode the identifiers I want to support, and rewrite these requests to a single webfinger.json resource. If I needed to support multiple users or identities, I would likely rewrite the request based on the resource value similar to what Aaron Parecki does with his Apache config.
WordPress MU in a development environment - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2008/wordpress-mu-in-a-development-environment/
Set-Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; path=/; domain=.wpmu The difference of course is the domain=.wpmu there on the end. In a production environment, this wouldn't make a bit of difference. But because I'm using fake hostnames in a development environment, this makes all the difference in the world.
Accessing go links across tailnets
willnorris.com/2023/golinks-across-tailnets/
2023-11-02T00:00:00.0000000
One of the more fun projects I've worked on at Tailscale is golink, which provide simple, private shortcuts that you can share with others on your tailnet.We have hundreds of go links at Tailscale that we use on a daily basis. But I also run a personal golink server in my homelab with some links that don't really make sense to add to our corporate golink instance.
wp-xrds
willnorris.com/2007/wp-xrds/
Unless a user is ridiculously devoted to your
site
and community, they don't want an ID under your
domain
. If you're someone like Technorati, then all of your users likely have their own blog anyway, and thus their own URL to use for OpenID! It seems that very few of the larger Identity Providers out in the wild today are really making an ...
WordPress OpenID v3.0 - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2008/wordpress-openid-v3/
If you use an email address at the
domain
of your WordPress blog, you can now use use that email address to login wherever EAUT is supported. Extensibility - the plugin now has a number of public functions and hooks that other plugins can use to integrate with or extend the OpenID plugin. These are all documented here.
About - Will Norris
willnorris.com/about/
About. Hi, I'm Will Norris. I'm a follower of Jesus, a husband to Elisabeth, a father to Gabriel and Judah , a citizen of the indie web, and a software engineer at Tailscale. Prior to Tailscale, I was the Open Source Lead at Twitter. Before that, I was at Google for 10 years, with most of that time spent in their Open Source Programs Office ...
Cached Commons
willnorris.com/2010/cached-commons/
Another important principal when trying to optimize speed is to serve static content from a cookie-less
domain
. Cached Commons is not cookie-less because Lance uses Google Analytics on the
site
. Of course, the only way that a user would have a cookie set for Cached Commons is if they had visited the
site
directly, which for most users will be ...
wp-openid 2.2.0 released - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2008/wp-openid-220-released/
The transform options outlined in this document are designed to be flexible enough such that every DNS
domain
-owner can specify unlimited email address to URL transformations that services can easily discover and utilize in their URL-based transactions. Das Prinzip ist einfach: Zuerst wird die EAUT Discovery Endpoint URL ermittelt.
WordPress OpenID v3.3 - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2009/wordpress-openid-v3-3/
Tom: why don't they work? Because email addresses are not OpenIDs. Google defined their own custom discovery protocol for Google Apps. RPX, which the demo
site
you linked to is using, implements Google's discovery protocol so it works on any RPX
sites
.Because this is not a standard discovery protocol, but is instead a vendor-specific option, I will not be adding support for it to the OpenID ...
Accountability Software
willnorris.com/2005/accountability-software/
Last Fall, I started working with the developers of x3watch on creating a Mac version of the software. I had a pretty decent working solution, but they've since contracted the work out to some firm.
DiSo - One Year Later
willnorris.com/2008/diso-one-year-later/
I'm not sure that anyone mentioned it really, but a couple of weeks ago was the one year anniversary of the DiSo Project.In that time, Chris and I were both hired by Vidoop to work on DiSo full-time, and Steve was picked up by Six Apart.We've also seen the entire discussion about these technologies, now dubbed the "Open Stack", move forward tremendously.
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