Tailscale

LAN Orangutan: Self-Hosted Network Scanner for Homelabs Anyone running a homelab knows the feeling. Half a dozen devices on the network, and you’re not sure which is which. MAC addresses blur together, IPs shuffle, and remembering “the little box in the closet is the PiHole” takes real detective work. LAN Orangutan is a self-hosted network scanner built for exactly that problem — it discovers devices on your LAN via nmap, labels them, and tracks them across scans. Network discovery is a solved problem in theory, but the usual tools live on a command line and forget everything between runs. That said, LAN Orangutan goes further: it ships as a single Go binary under MIT, sits at 494 stars on GitHub, and runs from a web UI or a JSON-output CLI. ...

Starting a Docker container should be enough to make it reachable over Tailscale. That’s the idea behind TSDProxy (almeidapaulopt/tsdproxy) — and it actually delivers. But traditional reverse proxies ask for config files, certificate resolvers, entrypoints, and network setup before you see a single service online. TSDProxy skips all that. Add one label to a container, and it gets https://<name>.<tailnet>.ts.net automatically. No sidecars, no reverse proxy config, no manual SSL work. ...

You’ve got a laptop, a desktop, a NAS in the closet, and a Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant. How do they all talk to each other securely — without opening ports, fighting with firewall rules, or renting a cloud server just to route traffic? Here’s the short answer: Tailscale makes this stupidly simple. It’s a zero-config mesh VPN built on WireGuard®, free for personal use (100 devices, 6 users), and it genuinely delivers on the “it just works” promise. ...