FreeBSD After a Couple of Months
It’s now been almost four months since I relapsed into running some FreeBSD servers, and I’ve now had time to lift them through my first FreeBSD major versio...
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Getting My Ducks in a Row
My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
FreeBSD Base Configuration
A while back I realized I haven’t been running FreeBSD since almost a decade, when I used it along with CARP for my first HAProxy load balancer pair at work....
A nice baguette
For once a very non-technical post.
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
Starting a Jekyll blog
I’ve begun experimenting with a statically generated site in place of my Wordpress instance: The more I work with technology, the more I find myself enjoying...
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
Serving static web pages from HAProxy
I recently had to prove ownership of a web domain at work. The suggested process was easy enough: Present a web page with your company name, and a way to sen...
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...