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In my last post, I noted that I was pretty happy with the current state of my homelab setup.

I enjoyed making a post last year to reflect upon what’s keeping me busy, or what caused me to not be busy, so I was thinking to do it again!

I was hoping to make a final blog post this year detailing the latest changes I made to my homelab.

It appears to be November already, my Fedi timeline is full of people talking about how this is the month to do some writing if you are so inclined.

Since last week, my fiancée and I decided to try getting into mixing cocktails.

If you’ve read my blog posts before, you may know that I personally don’t like systemd all that much.

Last month I tried out Wayland once more.

Its a new year.

Its been about another year since I made a post about Bashtard, its 2.0.0 release.

Last week I got a message on Matrix, asking me to update one of my Raku modules, Config::Parser::TOML.

After setting up mieshu, nouki is the next server to work on in my home rack.

After saving up for a long while and thinking about what I want in my new home, I have finally taken the leap and gotten myself a server rack for home use.

This is going to be a relatively short and uninteresting post for most, it’ll just document how to get emoji to work in KDE.

A little over a year ago I started on a project to create my own configuration management system.

In the past year, I’ve written Bashtard, a simple configuration system written in Bash to minimize the required dependencies, and to have a better system to handle different distributions/OSs in your cluster.

I’ve hosted my own git repositories for quite a while, but I hadn’t found a simple self-hosted CI solution yet.

For my current $dayjob I am required to start using the AWS VPN Client.

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

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

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

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.