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Aaron Ogle
Principal Software Engineer & perpetual tinkerer. Homelab · Open source · AI/agents · System design · Family.
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A Decade at Rocket.Chat: Looking Back on 10 Years
After 10 years at Rocket.Chat… I’m saying goodbye. I started contributing to Rocket.Chat after it appeared on Hacker News in 2015. Some of my first pull requests were fixing image stretching bugs, hubot …
Year In Review: 2024
2024 is now in the books! In previous years, I wrote internal posts at work to reflect on the year and highlight accomplishments. This exercise was revealing. It was often a great way to see how much we’d achieved that …
Fedora Iot, Greenboot, Systemd and of course DNS
This post is mostly as a resource for future me. But maybe it’ll come in useful to someone else. This weekend I was working on provisioning a new NAS/Media box setup after having to do a bit of hardware shuffling. …
How to Set Up Client SSL Certificate Authentication for Rocket.Chat
Are you looking to add an extra layer of security to access Rocket.Chat? One way to do this is by implementing client SSL certificate authentication. This authentication method requires clients to present a valid SSL …
Adventures of the Geek: Remote Password Reset
Our adventure begins on a Monday evening. I received a call from a family member that lives a bit over 8 hours away. I powered on my laptop today and it won’t take my password Unfortunately the laptop runs Windows …