Posts in category 'crazy-projects'
Category: Crazy Projects
Routing Android Device Through a Laptop Using Bluetooth PAN and Tailscale
A Practical Walkthrough of a Surprisingly Hard Problem
For a task that sounded trivial at first, this experiment turned into a surprisingly deep dive into Android networking limitations, routing constraints, VPN behavior, and how Bluetooth Personal Area Networking (PAN) actually works under the hood.
My goal sounded simple:
Connect an Android phone to my Linux laptop over Bluetooth PAN and route ALL traffic from the phone to the Internet through the laptop — without Wi-Fi, without mobile data, without USB tethering, and without root.
Easy peasy.
How to simulate Chrome is running in a TTY
I’ve always loved terminals and retro-computing. I find they were a technology that didn’t got fully their full potential due to graphical interfaces (it’s strange I say this since my first computer was a Macintosh LC II at a time where everybody else had at most a PC with Windows 3.11…). That’s the main reason I added support for Unicode BPM plain in Linux kernel for NodeOS, specially to have available the Braille patters used by blessed-contrib to draw graphical diagrams in the terminal. That’s the reason why when I discovered BOOTSTRA.386 project, a Bootstrap theme that mimics a text-mode interface in a website similar to old BBSs (fathers of web forums, and grandfathers of current online walls), I got enthusiastic about the idea of making it compatible with real terminal web browsers like Links, w3m or Lynx.