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Blog on Tailscale
Company blog · tailscale.dev/blogsystemsprogramming
Blog on Tailscale is the company blog at tailscale.dev, writing about systems and programming. Since 2023, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Using Tailscale without using Tailscale”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Tailscale blog for practical posts on running Tailscale, such as Funnel, Headscale over Funnel, Docker mods and battery life. One commenter names the headscale-funnel post a favourite.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Tailscale without using Tailscale4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-04-01
- The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-14
- Embed a Tailscale Funnel in your Go app2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-12
- Funnel 101: sharing your local developer preview with the world2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-30
- Battery Life Instrumentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-07
- The Subtle Magic of Tsnet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-08
- Tclip: A Pastebin for Your Tailnet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-17
- Libtailscale: Embedded Tailscale. Go C for yourself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-03
What Hacker News says?
See https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel
Comment linking /blog/headscale-funnel
on “A new generation of Tailscale access controls”Submitted Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source as a story · 72 points
HN discussionNow that I think about it, there's also some other things I use it for. I embedded the Tailscale API into my VM manager waifud ( https://github.com/Xe/waifud ) so that I can pass a `--join-tailnet` flag to `waifuctl create` and plunk new virtual machines onto my tailnet with Tailscale SSH enabled. It makes testing things on arbitrary versions of Ubuntu so easy that it feels like I'm cheating. My hypervisors are also…
Comment linking /blog/funnel-101
on “Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans”Submitted Tailscale Sucks as a story · 19 points
HN discussionTailscalar here. One of the main things I use Tailscale for is accessing my development box from anywhere in the world. I can't really develop on Windows so I'm used to ssh-ing into a NixOS machine that runs all my compilers. Tailscale makes accessing it so easy that I can just leave hundreds of emacs buffers open in various tmux panes and reconnect back when I want to do development again. I also run some internal…
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on “Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans”Submitted The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTurns out you can! https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel
Comment linking /blog/headscale-funnel
on “Tailscale Funnel now available in beta”Submitted Libtailscale: Embedded Tailscale. Go C for yourself as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's likely just `tailscale serve https / <upstream>`. https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/main/ipn/serve.g... And they also support direct embedding: https://tailscale.dev/blog/embedded-funnel I think this is built on the wireguard-go + gvisor mashup, that allows you to do this with just Wireguard: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-go/tree/master/tun/ne... One of my favorite applications of this is thi…
Comment linking /blog/embedded-funnel
on “The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod”Submitted Weaponizing hyperfocus: Becoming the first DevRel at Tailscale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm using the linuxserver.io brand docker container, which now supports Docker Mod, which has a Tailscale plug in. https://tailscale.dev/blog/docker-mod-tailscale
Comment linking /blog/docker-mod-tailscale
on “The Home Assistant Green is here”Submitted Tailscale Serve obsoleted my code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey've been, over the past year, putting a significant amount of work into fixing the battery life issues. It is largely resolved for me, and it seems according to a recent article the vast majority of their users. https://tailscale.dev/blog/battery-life * 2% still affected according to https://tailscale.com/blog/reimagining-tailscale-for-ios/
Comment linking /blog/battery-life
on “Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad”Submitted The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnother long time reader chiming in to appreciate your great work. https://xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-aws-2021-08-11 is one of my personal favorites, as well as https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel
Comment linking /blog/headscale-funnel
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Using Tailscale without using Tailscale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's hoping! I have also been bringing that energy to the work blog (eg: https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel ), and it's been working really well. I'm working on turning the user personas that we're tracking in DevRel into Socratic characters. It's a slow process, but writing is never fast consistently.
Comment linking /blog/headscale-funnel
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted On the Node While on the Road with Tailscale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can even host Headscale over Tailscale, amusingly: https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel
Comment linking /blog/headscale-funnel
on “Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale”Submitted Battery Life Instrumentation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tclip: A Pastebin for Your Tailnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted tclip: A pastebin for your tailnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grafting Tailscale onto the Pi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tapping into Tailscale’s identity headers with Serve as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Subtle Magic of Tsnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Subtle Magic of Tsnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manage passwords over your tailnet with vaultwarden as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funnel 101: sharing your local developer preview with the world as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Libtailscale: Embedded Tailscale. Go C for yourself as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embed a Tailscale Funnel in your Go app as a story · 1 points
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