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Engineering write-ups, infrastructure experiments, and the occasional debugging war story.
June 25, 2026
Self-Hosting My Own Private Network with Headscale and Tailscale
How I built a private mesh between a home server and a VPS using Headscale, a custom DERP relay, and Nginx Proxy Manager — and the kernel-networking gotcha that cost me an afternoon.
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