I’ve mostly been discouraged from writing smaller, one-off programs in Scheme/Racket because I’ve only used it in an academic context. This includes writing a small interpreter in a programming languages class in…
I’ve been splitting different services on my servers into their own jails so that they can be isolated for security and isolation purposes. However, these jails are long-running systems, so they need to be patched frequently. Now that I have over five of these jails running…
I wrote a post about using Pulldasher with Docker a few months ago to explain how to use Docker to run Pulldasher or debug Pulldasher anywhere. One of the shortcomings of that post was that it required keeping track of two independent containers in order to…
I recently became the proud owner of a hand me down HP LaserJet 1020. It’s a fairly basic laser printer that prints in black and white, and only has a USB 2.0 interface. I was happy to take it, since I only really print text documents and I…
This weekend I made some changes to Pulldasher that allows it to be run in a Docker container. Pulldasher is a dashboard for Github pull requests written by iFixit. It was open sourced about a year ago, and is the primary productivity tool that we use for viewing which pull requests are…
Introductions were very cool. The conference was small enough that every single person was able to introduce themselves in front of everyone. I was a little scared to introduce myself to a room of one hundred or so BSD professionals and…
Jails are a way to create an isolated environment to run programs in on FreeBSD. The idea is that given a directory subtree, hostname, ip address, and start command, you can have an isolated environment to run…
I’ve been using the reference python implementation for LetsEncrypt since the beta days. I don’t think that there’s anything inherently wrong with it, but I recently heard about an alternative implementation called acme-client on an episode of BSDNow…
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