Jordan Cooks

Jordan listens to too many podcasts, has too many streaming subscriptions, loves dogs, is the Integration Engineer Team Lead at Bitwarden, and makes a mean vegan baked mac and cheeze.

Caddy DNS challenge and Porkbun

Quite frankly it was ridiculous to try to make all my post photos thematically relevant, I give up

Oct 24, 2022 2 min read infrastructure homelab network selfhosting tech guide privacy

Stuck between a rock and an expired-certificate-place, I deployed the Porkbun plugin for Caddy's ACME DNS challenge

Frasier x Columbo 16-page comic: very good

Excerpt from "I HEAR THE BLUES A-KILLIN'"

Oct 19, 2022 1 min read microblerg entertainment media notmyphoto review

Joe Chouinard, webcomic artist, has made this beautiful 16-page full-color comic specifically for me, apparently. A pitch-perfect crossover episode between Frasier and Columbo. Published on Twitter, read it via Threadreader.

Upscayl: AI image resolution increase-er

Upscayl is not capable of adding detail especially in challenging lighting, so this photo is unmodified

Sep 29, 2022 5 min read tech media gallery photo personal

Upscayl is a FOSS project that runs as an Electron application and utilizes a dGPU and machine learning to increase the resolution of photos, adding geometry via AI. I tried it out this weekend on a few old Facebook photos, and the results were interesting.

VPN for a Roku TV using a NetworkManager hotspot

I don't have a lot of pictures of tunnels, so here's a bridge

Sep 5, 2022 3 min read guide homelab infrastructure media network selfhosting tech

Just because I'm in Canada now doesn't mean I want to give up on my US streaming services.

August Updates Round-Up (In September)

Sumas Mountain and the Queensborough Bridge at sunrise

Sep 1, 2022 2 min read

Hello again! My entire existence is moving boxes; all I can see and all that I am is corrugated paper and very cheap packing tape, but I am indeed still alive.