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Single Board Computer Frustration
2016-01-21
I’ve been eyeing up several reasonably priced ARM/SBC systems for a bit now. Let me clarify that my definition of reasonably priced. I mean anything around $35-$65 USD. I know what you’re thinking cheap skate. Yeah, okay fine. I’m on a budget and yet you’re still reading this. I wanted something that could have multiple purposes. Something to do retro game emulation, install and play with FreeBSD or OpenBSD, maybe use as a router.…
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Migrating to a Static Blog
2015-09-16
What an interesting turn of events. I started writing this blog post with my intentions fully moving away from Ghost , which is written in NodeJS, to Pelican , written in Python. I wrote mostly a whole article about choices I was making. All of which were in the direction of Python. I mostly wrote off Ruby as a “hipsters” language. So I decided to stear clear as much as possible.…
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A Web Backend Developers Migration to FreeBSD
I’ve been using different Linux distributions since around 1997. Originally, it was more personal than anything. Although I did learn to setup samba, web servers, databases, etc.. I had made several attempts moving to FreeBSD throughout the years. Fast forward to today and here I am a Python developer I’ve moved away from Perl scripting at my previous job. I’ve been more and more frustrated with every Linux distributions having so many different ways with so many different locations of where configs and packages are placed.…