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My Mail Hosting Has Come Full Circle

Published: May 1, 2026 22:46

One of the earliest blog posts I made before I somewhat abandoned writing blog posts in lieu of this "microblogging social media" hype train we all rode for a decade was titled Archiveopteryx: The IMAP Server You Always Wanted. This post didn't give Aox…

Beware of Wodposit NVMEs

Published: May 1, 2026 18:56

I got my hands on a Geekom minipc which has a AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics, 32GB RAM. It is a very nice and fast minipc that runs FreeBSD well. All was going well until this morning my desktop started freezing and stuttering which was very…

Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

Published: April 30, 2026 20:59

Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable…

Git Branches When Shallow Cloning

Published: April 28, 2026 00:45

Short but sweet: you have a shallow git clone like git clone --depth 1 ... and now you want to access another branch. It's not very clear how to do this, but this is the trick: git fetch --depth 1 origin branch:branch That's it. If you don't use the…