FreeBSD
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Out of the ashes of neglect
If you skim the archives on this site, the story writes itself: a long quiet stretch after 2016, a small burst of life in 2023 when I got things out of a corner and into a BastilleBSD jail, and then another jump this year when the whole thing landed in Kubernetes. Yesterday—literally yesterday—the front page
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I’m in a Kubernetes pod!
Migrated this largely neglected time-capsule from the BastilleBSD jail to my local Kubernetes cluster. The operation was largely AI driven, courtesy of Cursor. It’s noticeably more performant now that’s it’s not running on a single aging Atom box!
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I’m in jail!
Hooray for BastilleBSD! This site has long been neglected… I did get it back online after rebuilding my FreeBSD box but also wanted to modernize things and make everything less monolithic. This will also let me keep my base system clean, enhance security and enable caching for performance. Fun!
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A tale of two AirPorts
The concept of a “guest” WiFi network, open to anyone but isolated from the rest of my home LAN has always been appealing… The feature has existed in the AirPort Extreme routers since the third generation (circa 2009). Originally the feature would disappear the moment you turn off router functionality and place the AirPort in
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Inferno3
The goal was rather simple, take my infinitely useful FreeBSD box and scale it down to more practical metrics. Less space, less energy, no noise. The tool for the job: 10 years of technological progress. Well, I’m not sure if that was the goal or the excuse, sometimes one simply gets an itch. An urge
