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Mar. 12, 2026

Linkwarden with docker compose and nginx proxy manager

[Linkwarden(https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden) is a tool for better managing bookmarks. If you’re nything like me, you keep 1000 browser tabs open across a series of profiles, with full intention of revisiting them later, and then never do. A colleague shpoed me linkwarden and I was interested straight away. I did have a few hangups, however: I don’t want to rely on a cloud service if I don’t have to I prefer to control my own content I am not a big fan of docker, which is required for self hosting I god over the docker hangup since it wasn’t really an option to do any other way and got straight to it.

Feb. 17, 2026

Mikrotik wireguard optimization

Most modern mikrotik can handle reasonable wireguard performance, but it is a CPU based encryption model, so there are some tweaks that can be made to improve performance. The following can be used to optimize for better wireguard behavior. However, it should be noted that unlike the IPSec capabilities that are measured and reported on the Mikrotik product pages for each platform, wireguard limits are not published for any mikrotik platform.

Feb. 6, 2026

IPv6 address formatting

IPv6 has a monumental amount of flexibility. That flexibility flow over into the address format, which can be - in some cases - a bit frustrating. Since IPv6 address can be presented in several ways, and this can be frustrating for those writing code to suport IPv6 or engineers trying to create templates. It can also be painful during troubleshooting. In an effort to craft something that is similar to my mac address shell tool , I wanted something similar for IPv6 addresses.