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Alex Kretzschmar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
808 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

He's an amazing writer, by the way.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

You should totally go and look at the Tailscale blog.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

He wrote a piece about how to jailbreak your Kindle.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

and put Tailscale on it.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And it was on Hacker News yesterday, and we saw a huge spike on the back end.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

But putting something about jailbreaking a device and breaking a EULA on a corporate blog, there are just certain topics you can't

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

really touch and that one it falls under sort of fair use and it's it's fine you know we think um legally speaking but there are huge tranches of self-hosting that i just cannot talk about even you know wink wink nudge nudge the stuff behind you is what i'm talking about for sure and you know we can't talk about circumventing

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

geo-political, geo-blocked content, right, restrictions and circumventing copyright, obviously, and everything that goes with it.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And for me, the reality was some of that stuff was the reason I even got into self-hosting in the first place.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So I have to find a whole other seam of stuff to talk about, which can be challenging, admittedly, sometimes.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

But then we have product release weeks and you sort of think to yourself, right, well, now I'm going to actually put together an advert effectively for the products.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

But how am I going to do this in a way that doesn't feel like an advert?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And so it can be tricky, but also very, yeah, it's very creatively challenging and rewarding at the same time.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Yeah, Unify fanboy over here.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

It's hard not to like them, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

It really is, apart from the price.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

There's definitely a Unify tax.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

The price definitely does get you.