About Me on Tyil

A sweet dish, commonly served with gamey-meat or stewed meat.

A small, hearty salad.

A simple sauce to go well with everything, though most popular with french fries.

A little while ago, I got a new work laptop.

A halal version of a famous Dutch winter meal, pea soup.

A savory sauce to be served warm with your dish.

A hearthy and veggie-heavy stew, best served when the weather outside is cold and wet.

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been spending some time here and there to work on my own application for configuring my machines.

This is the initial release of Bashtard.

Last week, I’ve decided to add a cookbook to my website.

A very spicy variant of the world’s most popular hot sauce.

Thin, Dutch pancakes with bacon.

A Dutch snack for Sinterklaas, but very tasty at any time of the year.

A slowly stewed meatball.

A rich snack from the glorious Netherlands.

A thick, creamy sauce, usually as a base for another thick and savory sauce.

The easiest cheesecake you’ve ever made.

A sweet, thick sauce made of apple.

I like collecting GNU+Linux ISOs.

ReiserFS is getting deprecated from Linux, mostly due to it not being ready for the year 2038.

My blog (and pretty much every other site I host) is using Let’s Encrypt certificates in order to be served over https.

Over the past week, I’ve been trying out LibreWolf as an alternative to mainline Firefox.

On one of my machines, I host a couple services using docker-compose.

Earlier this week, the staff at the Freenode IRC network have resigned en masse, and created a new network, Libera.

The Raku programming language has a popular module for creating IRC bots, IRC::Client.

At my $day-job we have a lot of jsonb in our database.

The last couple of days I’ve been taking another look at getting modules for the Raku programming language into Gentoo’s Portage tree.

Four years have past, and my FreeBSD email server has keps on running without any problems.

For those who don’t know, the Config module for the Raku programming language is a generic class to hold… well… configuration data.

I’ve been working on some Raku projects, but each of them is just too small to make an individual blog post about.

A little while ago, a friend on IRC asked me how I set up a PGP webkey directory on my website.

cgit, a web interface for git repositories, allows you to easily share your projects’ source code over a web interface.

A couple months ago, I was given a workshop at work about “getting things done”.

Disclaimer Please keep in mind that the opinion shared in this blog post is mine and mine alone.

People often ask me for my reasons to use Gentoo.

Due to the slow release of Rakudo Star (which actually did release a new version last month), I had set out to make Docker images for personal use based on the regular Perl 6 releases.

Having attended FOSDEM last weekend, I have been asked to help some people out with signing PGP keys.

I recently started at a new company, for which I will have to write Python 3 code.

I’ve recently started a job where I am required to have above-average security practices in place on my machine.

This year the European Perl Conference was hosted in Glasgow, and of course I’ve attended a number of presentations there.

Sparrowdo is a Perl 6 project to facilitate automatic configuration of systems.

In this tutorial, I’ll be guiding you through creating a simple application in Perl 6.

For about a year now, I’ve been working in Perl 6.

I’ve been meaning to spend more time on developing free software, helping out new users on IRC and writing more tutorials to get others started.

Foreword Cloudflare is a threat to online security and privacy.

In this tutorial I’ll get you through setting up a Raspberry Pi with Perl 6.

This year I actively participated in the Hacktoberfest event, which is “a month-long celebration of open source software”.

I’ve recently made some progress on Shinrin a centralized logging system in Perl 6.

This guide will explain how to use git more efficiently, and why you should use it as such.

This guide is an addition to the FreeBSD email server series.