Blake Carpenter

Observability overlaps between my profession and my hobbies.

Ah, EL10 time, time to migrate all my servers.

I recently migrated my website from Ghost to a static one using Jekyll.

Akamai does not officially support FreeBSD on Linodes at this time.

For years now, I’ve kept all my passwords in a private Vault instance on my home server that I need VPN access to get into.

As the nature of monitoring/observability has changed over the years, the exercise I’ve given engineers in training has been the same: monitor the weather in Boston, fire an alert when it gets hot.

Ghost is was my preferred blogging application.

This site runs on Ghost, and one of my more popular posts over the years has been about how to install it on FreeBSD (which I will update for 14.0 soon).

If you’re reading something like this, you probably have at least one service connected to the internet.

Red Hat’s Anaconda installer is a wonderful and intuitive thing, but it’s bare bones if you do not have a graphics card in your machine.