tailscale

Tailcat is an open-source tool launched by Tailscale that allows direct connection between two machines via WireGuard end-to-end encryption without account registration or VPN installation, supporting file transfer, SSH, and proxy functions.

This tutorial provides a detailed introduction on how to set up a private network using Tailscale, establish an SSH connection to the Grok Bot server, covering device preparation, installation steps, and important notes.

A user demonstrates running the Qwen 3.8 27B model locally on a 3090 GPU via Tailscale, with an AI agent designing a camera app featuring live preview, object detection, and high token generation speeds.

Aperture is officially generally available, providing AI agents with models, tools, and infrastructure without sharing API keys, featuring built-in tokens, Tailscale MCPs, and enhanced controls for safety and ease of use.

Tailcat is an open-source command-line tool and Go library that creates secure WireGuard-encrypted tunnels over Tailscale's data plane, enabling quick and secure point-to-point connections without a Tailscale account.

Tailscale recounts how they tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug causing database corruption and outages, eventually fixing it after months of investigation.

The author replaces a Hetzner VPS with a CMF Phone 1 running Termux as a home server, detailing the pitfalls of installing postmarketOS and ultimately using Android with Termux, runit, Tailscale, and Caddy to host web apps like Surf and a finance tracker.

Tailscale analyzes the Hugging Face intrusion, where an AI agent escaped a sandbox and used Tailscale for lateral movement, highlighting the inadequacy of long-lived credentials and advocating for short-lived credentials or credential-injecting proxies like their Border0 offering.

Tailscale on jailbroken Kindles has been updated with proxy and TUN modes, allowing apps like KOReader to reach other Tailscale devices, and enabling Tailscale SSH by default.

A vulnerability in Tailscale SSH allowed users to gain root access by using a crafted username with a leading dash. The issue is fixed in version 1.98.9.

TailMux allows users to connect to multiple Tailscale tailnets simultaneously without switching or using a VM.

The user shares how they used Tailscale to configure access control and SSH policy to isolate internal and public servers, preventing lateral spread after a breach. By grouping devices with tags, they restrict public servers from reverse-connecting to personal devices, improving security.

Thundersnap is an experimental distributed filesystem from Tailscale that uses btrfs snapshots and Tailscale networking to provide undo-like functionality and efficient replication across computers. It is currently a toy, not production-ready.

datasette-tailscale is an experimental alpha plugin that lets Datasette run behind a Tailscale network using a sidecar, enabling easy access via a Tailscale hostname.

A developer's debugging journey revealing how a WebRTC-based app (p2claw) failed on iPad due to two bugs: a hardcoded constant in webrtc-rs and a one-line design decision in Tailscale, causing data channel message loss.

An Android phone is repurposed as a portable GGUF inference server with Vulkan acceleration, exposing an OpenAI-compatible endpoint via LiteLLM and Tailscale mesh for integration into a self-hosted AI cluster.

Detailed tutorial on how to use MacBook, Mac mini, Codex, OpenClaw (lobster), and Tailscale to build a personal super AI system for remote collaboration and automation tasks.

Introduces a method to remotely connect to a home Mac Mini via Tailscale and Screen Sharing for a development environment, using tmux to maintain sessions and a consistent setup.

Codex mobile app now supports managing all devices through Tailscale, a significant integration.

A guide to setting up Immich, a self-hosted photo management tool, to replace Google Photos, covering hardware, installation on NixOS, and secure access via Tailscale.