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After a drive failed in my build server caused me to lose all the work I did to build packages for Home Assistant, I finally got motivated to rebuild it again.

Recently support for armv7 from Rust has been annoying to build, so I have decided to switch to arm64 for my Raspberry Pis.

Some notes about the talks I attended at BSDCan 2023 on the first day.

Some notes about the talks I attended at BSDCan 2023 on the first day.

At the BSDCan DevSummit I enjoyed multiple talks, included the Have, Need, Want and Axe Session.

Some random notes about using Z-Wave JS on FreeBSD.

After creating a brand new AMI from the latest and greatest FreeBSD, we would be remiss if we did not properly test that it boots and can do a basic build.

Currently one of my customers is using the FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE AMIs that are provided by the FreeBSD Release Engineering team.

After getting my new MacBook Pro with the new M1 Pro CPU and running the Migration Assistant I started seeing the following error: Error calling protect() Unfortunately I didn’t take a screenshot so this might not be the exact error, but it is pretty clo…

One of my customers needs to have builds done on arm64 hosts, but they lack the necessary hardware to do so in house and procuring such hardware can be very difficult due to vendors EoL some hardware without the replacement hardware being ready to ship.

Building a new FreeBSD poudriere jail, sometimes runs into the following error: awk: can't open file /usr/local/poudriere/jails/aarch64/usr/include/sys/param.h source line number 1 This is a bug in poudriere-devel-3.3.99.20210907_1 and it is fixed in m…

Vault works well on FreeBSD, but there are a couple of quirks to be aware of.

To make it easier to upgrade the various Raspberry Pis that are around, lets PXE boot them so they can be upgraded easily.

Setting up FreeBSD to run cloudinit to make custom images is pretty easy.

For awhile now I have been meaning to evaluate Nomad and Consul for managing servers as well as batch jobs.

Previously it has not been possible to use the camera module on FreeBSD due to the RPi tools not working on 64-bit architectures.

For the past few years I have been operating a small number of Arduino Ethernets with DHT22 sensors, push data into Graphite.

For awhile I have been using a Tarsnap backup script written by Tim Bishop.

In the past we had to use the old SysV IPC sysctls and change the UID that each PostgreSQL server ran as under in each Jail.

For some reason I could not find any pictures online of the awesome shirt from the EuroBSDCon 2013 DevSummit.