Open source software and nice hardware

Destroy a range of ZFS snapshots with a single command When you have a number of old ZFS snapshots to destroy, it can be useful to see if you can delete a complete range.

Books and some interesting stuff I read in August 2026 Fiction Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011) 374 pages 5 stars Dystopian science fiction story about a virtual reality world, called OASIS.

Jugulans is now developed on Chicken Scheme 6 After upgrading from Chicken Scheme 5 to Chicken Scheme 6 I am now developing jugulans on Chicken Scheme 6.

Git branches and Emacs built-in VC Emacs VC Emacs VC is the built-in Emacs version control interface.

jugulans a text mode mind map application Jugulans is a text mode mind map application.

Books and some interesting stuff I read in July 2026 This month I read some though provoking books, a nice science fiction book, and had a lot of fun reading several essays and short stories.

Having fun with Chicken Scheme Switch from Guile Scheme to Chicken Scheme Lately have been dabbling in Guile Scheme.

Books and some interesting pages I read in June 2026 This month I decided to not finish a book after reading the first 100 pages, so I just finished a single book.

Start Guile shell script that listens on a port for REPL client Guile, while running a program, can listen to a port for a REPL client, like a Swank server on SBCL.

Enhanced Motif Window Manager on FreeBSD The Enhanced Motif Window Manager (EMWM) is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements.

Books and some interesting pages I read in May 2026 Non-fiction The End of Everything by Katie Mack (2020) 226 pages 5 stars We know that the universe started with the Big Bang, and that it currently is expanding.

Awkiawki with slowcgi with NGINX on FreeBSD How to run awkiawki using slogcgi and NGNINX Awkiawki is a wiki written in awk. slowcgi is a server which implements the FastCGI Protocol to execute CGI scripts. slowcgi is a simple server that translates FastCGI

Books and some pages I read in April 2026 Non-fiction Vintage Didion by Joan Didion (2004) 200 pages 3 stars A collection of previously published essays focussed on US politics.

Explore the smol web with Bubbles All Aggregators Are Equal but Some Aggregators Are More Equal Than Others Bubbles is a new, brilliant, blog aggregator.

Install minimal Recoll on FreeBSD 15 Recoll is a full text search application.

Books of March 2026 Below are the two books I finished reading this month.

My Emacs misconceptions Emacs Carnival Mistakes and Misconceptions Philip Kaludercic has started the Emacs carnival on the subject Mistakes and Misconceptions.

Deploy a Matrix server using Conduit and Cinny on FreeBSD in the homelab Here is a small post about deploying a Matrix server in the homelab.

Books of February 2026 Below are the two books that I finished this month.

Translate Texinfo files using po4a Texinfo Texinfo is a brilliant hypertext system that predates HTML.