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Getting Started with Tailscale in 10 Minutes

Accessing your local services over your tailnet or the public internet is one command away, as Alex demonstrates in a new demo video.

Funnel and Serve: Tailscale Explained

Big updates to Serve and Funnel, Taildrop, and auto-updates in the latest Tailscale release.

Funnel-y enough: Release Recap November 2023

Create a segmented network zone with Proxmox, OPNsense, and Tailscale in a new how-to video.

A homelabber’s networking playground using VLANs

A lot like astral projection: Release Recap October 2023

tclip now has a new theme, org-mode rendering, and runs without CGo.

tclip just got clippier

Remote editing with our VS Code extension, smoother onramps to Serve and Funnel, and tailnet lock in beta in this month's Release Recap.

Remote control with Code: Release Recap September 2023

Circumventing sketchy hotel wifi using an exit node.

On the Node While on the Road with Tailscale

Sometimes you need to paste text between your machines or coworkers. tclip is a Tailscale-powered pastebin that lets you do just that.

tclip: A pastebin for your tailnet

The new HTTP headers in Tailscale Serve are great and they made a bunch of Xe's code irrelevant. Here's how.

Tailscale Serve obsoleted my code

Tailscale Serve over plain HTTP, identity headers, and an iOS redesign in this month's Release Recap.

Serving it plain: Release Recap August 2023

Skip all the overhead and get to using your Raspberry Pi ASAP with Tailscale.

Grafting Tailscale onto the Pi

When you use Tailscale serve to proxy requests, you can use its identity headers to change what content you serve.

Tapping into Tailscale’s identity headers with Serve

Xe's Tailscale Up talk about how to use tsnet in your services, complete with many personal examples.

The Subtle Magic of tsnet

Learn how to install vaultwarden on a machine in your tailnet to give all your devices access to a secure password manager backend.

Manage passwords over your tailnet with vaultwarden

Run Tailscale SSH on your Steam Deck to install mods like Strawberry Jam for Celeste.

Strawberry Jamming with Tailscale SSH

We’ve added instrumentation and taking a more systematic approach to investigating battery life issues in the Tailscale mobile clients.

Battery life instrumentation

Tailscale's new Free plan allows up to three users on a tailnet. Here's how you can use GitHub organizations to make that happen.

Creating a multi-user tailnet with GitHub organizations

We created a universal Docker mod for Tailscale, which lets you slap Tailscale on the side of existing Docker containers from linuxserver.io. In this article, Xe explains how you can use this and why it's funny.

Introducing the Tailscale Universal Docker Mod

Spelunking through the Darwin kernel and userland helps Tailscale work better on macOS and iOS.

Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source

In which I liberate a robot vacuum cleaner from the cloud, and run Tailscale on it.

Tailscale sucks

Telltail is a Go application that allows different machines on your tailnet to copy and paste text with a shared clipboard. We caught up with its developer Ajit Singh for a Tailscale Q&A about how it came together.

A clipboard for your tailnet with Telltail: Q&A with developer Ajit Singh

Tailscale is a great product, but it's not for everyone. Here's how to use it without using it.


Using Tailscale without using Tailscale

Tailscale Funnel lets you share a local service with the internet. Today Xe covers how you can use this productively by sharing the development copy of an application to the world.

Funnel 101: sharing your local developer preview with the world

Tailscale Funnel is now available as a Go library you can embed directly in your programs.

Embed Funnel in your App

libtailscale: a Tailscale C library. Using the Go toolchain to build a c-archive tsnet package that uses a userland network stack to implement TCP/IP inside a process.

libtailscale: embedded Tailscale. Go C for yourself.

tevents is a small tool to be deployed in your tailnet to collect events/hooks from other services. By using tsnet, it can be deployed as a virtual private service. This allows to centrally collect events in your network and display them on a web interface.

tevents: event logger and job monitor for tailnets

This blog uses a lot of modern technologies like MDX, Xe uses Emacs, which nobody has implemented MDX support for. In this article Xe gets MDX support working anyways through the use/abuse of directory-local variables in Emacs so you can do this too.

Configuring Emacs for MDX files

The story of how the DevRel team at Tailscale was formed, as told by Xe, our first developer advocate.

Weaponizing hyperfocus: Becoming the first DevRel at Tailscale

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