Scattered IT Notes - by Stefano Marinelli
The same URL serves HTML to browsers, JSON to apps, and ActivityPub to remote instances. Here's how I cache Mastodon with nginx without betraying any of them.
A small trick to copy command output from a remote ssh session directly into the local macOS clipboard, using OSC 52 and a tiny shell script.
From a simple Italian script to managing 1200+ US cities, timezones, and a secret-leaking crisis. How I completely rebuilt the FediMeteo backend without breaking the Unix-style infrastructure around it.
How FediMeteo uses HAProxy caching, static pages, and small FreeBSD jails to keep snac quiet and serve ActivityPub traffic efficiently.
A guide on how to set up LibreNMS inside a FreeBSD jail.
Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for competence.
A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more than twenty years later.
A guide on how to set up Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail.
A practical guide to installing Void Linux on an encrypted ZFS root with LUKS-encrypted swap and working hibernation support.
I usually publish articles about how much I love the BSDs or illumos distributions, but today I want to talk about Linux (or, better, GNU/Linux) and why, despite everything, it still holds a place in my heart.