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Introduction I had some fun migrating my NixOS servers to root on ZFS a while ago but did not take the time to write about it.

Introduction Not many Virtual Private Server (VPS) providers consider FreeBSD a first-class citizen, and few encourage you to encrypt your hard drive from inside the VPS.

Introduction I have blogged about my pf firewall configurations a few times, but never my Linux ones.

Introduction For almost a decade, I have been operating my own mesh overlay network using a combination of point to point OpenVPN tunnels with OSPF on top.

Introduction I recently had my phone die on me and had to get a new one.

Introduction Though it is less common nowadays, SSL certificate provisioning can still be full of surprises when dealing with old school setups in client environments.

Introduction I find most of the popular dependency update automation tools like Dependabot or Renovate cumbersome to integrate, first and foremost because they cannot be run locally easily.

Introduction I have been using Forgejo Actions to run CI tasks for about a year.

Introduction I participated in Advent of Code 2025 in Haskell.

Introduction One of my readers contacted me with an interesting question regarding Wireguard on FreeBSD: how to run Wireguard inside a jail instead of on the host.

Introduction Last week I needed to script the download of a specific asset from a release of a private GitHub repository.

Introduction Today’s AWS outage is a good time to remind sysadmins that AWS DynamoDB is no longer required to handle state file locking when storing state files on AWS S3.

Introduction I have been using a Forgejo action (compatible with GitHub actions) for testing my OpenTofu/Terraform modules on AWS.

Introduction I last blogged about how to run simple QEMU virtual machines in 2021 in this article.

Introduction I gave Raku several tries over the last 15 years.

Introduction I participated in advent of code 2024 in Haskell: it was a fun experience as always!