Build log

The Devbox Build, Part 3: Containers and a Front Door

Docker goes on, then Caddy goes in front of it, and the tailnet starts to push back.

By Brian Mars · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min

The Log

Recent, briefly

OCT 19The Devbox Build, Part 2: Reachable From Anywhere, Visible to No One. Tailscale finds the box, mosh keeps the connection, tmux keeps the session, and the firewall only answers on the tailnet.¹
OCT 18The Devbox Build, Part 1: Metal and OS. Two drives, one of them in the wrong slot, and a Debian install that only touches one disk.²
OCT 18Resurrection Sunday 2026.10.18.
OCT 17A Boring Box on Purpose. A small server for git and CI that nobody on the internet can see, built from boring parts and written up one card at a time.³
OCT 11Resurrection Sunday 2026.10.11.
OCT 06Aspie Supremacy Has a Grain of Truth and a Mountain of Ego.
OCT 04Resurrection Sunday 2026.10.04. kicking off a weekly series in which I look back at a track that will make me stop and listen to it
OCT 03Mixtapes Rehomed.

Build log

Tailscale finds the box, mosh keeps the connection, tmux keeps the session, and the firewall only answers on the tailnet.

Oct 19, 20263 min

Build log

Two drives, one of them in the wrong slot, and a Debian install that only touches one disk.

Oct 18, 20263 min

Music

Oct 18, 20261 min

Paid for by the day job, more or less.

Fine print

1If a network blocks UDP, mosh can't connect at all. Plain ssh with tmux still works, and Eternal Terminal gives a TCP connection that survives a network change.
2Values in the commands are placeholders. The list is at /reference.
3The names and addresses in this series are placeholders. The full list is at the bottom of the reference index.