I wanted a local Git server on my home network to store some repositories without relying on GitHub for everything. I don't need a web interface, so the built git-http-backend should be enough. Combined with a web server's access permissions I can have anonymous cloning, protected pushing and private repositories.

I wanted to create some jails that run under their own IP address on my home network for various services. I prefer to have the central DHCP server hand out of the IP addresses, so that if I want to change anything it can all be managed in one place, but it does mean getting the jails and related networking to use DHCP, which turned out to be a little more involved that I thought.

Getting my old Kobo Touch running again and working with FreeBSD.

Two years ago I joined Mastodon. After Facebook, this is my second attempt at social media. So, 2,852 posts, and counting, in, how have I found it? Has any of what I thought might happen, happened?

I have a habit of adding return 0 to the end of my Python main() functions, even if they don't actually return anything. A friend pointed this weirdness out, and guessed, probably correctly, that this is a habit from C/C++ where returning 0 means 'everything went as expected'. But does that make any sense at all in Python?

In which I add a dark-mode to my blog, shave many yaks and question my own sanity.

I don't feel like I've listened to more music this year than last, but I must have; as trying to come up with this year's 'best' newly heard tracks was much harder, and I seem to have encountered so much more music than I have the last few years.

I haven't been to Berlin for more than a decade, and then go twice in one year. Neither trip this year was to explore Berlin's history, but you can't avoid it.

Tomorrow Child A starts school, but today we went to the park to enjoy some late summer weather. The entire day I had this strong feeling for nostalgia for the moment we were in.

I wanted to create a script that would e-mail me when it detected a failure in a ZFS storage pool, but to test it I needed a failing zpool. You could create a zpool with a USB hub and some USB memory sticks, and then pull them out as you like, but that involves getting up, something I try to reserve for important things like getting a new cup of tea, or a biscuit. Luckily ZFS has the ability to create pool just from files.