Chat-tails, community meetups, and season's greetings
Your December newsletter from Tailscale
Chat-tails, community meetups, and season's greetings
Hi there,
As 2025 comes to a close, we want to wish you a happy holiday season, whatever that looks like for you. Whether you are taking time off, easing into a quieter week, or are business-as-usual, we've pulled together our recommendations for some light reading this holiday season. Thanks for being part of the Tailscale community. We're glad you're here!
– Natasha, Community @ Tailscale
Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale
To find a safe space for his kid to chat with friends while playing Minecraft, Brian Scott used Tailscale and tsnet to build chat-tails, an IRC-like interface, run through a terminal.
Chat-tails is the opposite of everything modern chat apps are offering. No one can get in without someone doing some work to invite them. All the chats are ephemeral, stored nowhere, easy to reach, and unsearchable. There are no voice chats, plug-ins, avatars, or images at all, really, unless you count ASCII art. Read more →
Mercury enacts a privacy-led approach to security with Tailscale
Discover how Mercury transformed its security posture and scaled its network with Tailscale’s easy-to-manage, zero-trust approach. It dramatically simplified VPN onboarding and infrastructure management as the company grew from 240 to over 1,000 employees. With granular access controls, seamless integration, and strong privacy protections, Tailscale helped Mercury enhance security without added complexity, freeing their team to focus on core objectives. Read the case study →
In the community
Tailscale is coming to Durham and San Francisco! Whether you’re a longtime Tailscale user or just curious about what we’re building, these meetups are a great chance to hang out with the community, swap stories, ask questions, and meet other like-minded people. We'd love to see you there!
We're always working to improve Tailscale, and your input is invaluable to us. To help make sure Tailscale stays valuable for you, we'd be grateful for your feedback. You can either fill out a ~2-minute product survey or sign up to be part of our user research panel and be invited to participate in ongoing studies. Give feedback →
Join the Tailscale community on Discord
Connect with other developers, homelab builders, and open-source enthusiasts in our Discord community. Share your setup, ask questions, or see what others are building with Tailscale.
