https://cjs-cloud.com/Collen Saunders' Personal Website. 2026-08-01T15:51:51-04:00 Collen Saunders https://cjs-cloud.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Collen Saunders /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-07-30T05:20:00-04:00 2026-07-30T14:19:11-04:00 https://cjs-cloud.com/posts/deploying-unifi-mcp-on-unraid-with-open-webui/ Collen Saunders

My network has a new administrator I manage a UniFi stack at home — a self-hosted controller running on network-services, a handful of switches, and a couple of access points. It’s not a massive deployment, but it’s enough that I don’t want to click through the UniFi web UI every time I need to check which client is hogging bandwidth or audit a firewall rule. I wanted something smarter. That’...

2026-07-28T11:05:18-04:00 2026-07-28T11:05:18-04:00 https://cjs-cloud.com/posts/deploy-open-terminal-on-proxmox-with-tailscale-and-restricted-qm-access/ Collen Saunders

Overview This guide deploys Open WebUI’s Open Terminal directly on a Proxmox VE host, publishes it privately through Tailscale Serve, and gives its dedicated Linux account limited access to selected Proxmox troubleshooting and VM-management commands. The final design is: Open WebUI | | HTTPS over the Tailscale tailnet v Tailscale Serve on the Proxmox host | | Local HTTP ...

2026-07-28T09:48:03-04:00 2026-07-28T09:48:03-04:00 https://cjs-cloud.com/posts/deploy-open-terminal-on-macos-with-tailscale-https/ Collen Saunders

Overview This guide explains how to run Open WebUI’s Open Terminal on a MacBook, publish it privately over HTTPS with Tailscale Serve, and configure it to start automatically with macOS. Open Terminal provides AI agents with a dedicated environment for executing commands, managing files, and running code through an API. It is designed to be controlled by an AI assistant rather than used as a ...

2026-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 2026-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 https://cjs-cloud.com/posts/deploy-open-terminal-on-windows-with-tailscale-and-open-webui/ Collen Saunders

Overview This article documents a Windows installer for Open Terminal that runs under a dedicated unprivileged local account, listens only on 127.0.0.1:8000, and is published privately through Tailscale Serve for use with Open WebUI. The installer was written to avoid several Windows-specific failure modes discovered during troubleshooting: Microsoft Store / per-user Python installations ...

2026-07-13T14:48:00-04:00 2026-07-13T19:13:03-04:00 https://cjs-cloud.com/posts/setting-up-a-garage-s3-compatible-object-store-on-unraid/ Collen Saunders

Frustrations… In the year of 2026, storage has become an expensive commodity among price increases that keep… well, increasing. I found myself hit with $30 a month in expenses with my Backblaze bucket which, while cheaper than competitors, is a lot more than I’m willing to spend for Minecraft server backups. Luckily, I had two Unraid servers sitting around and plenty of storage. I asked myself...