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Big mod: I’m adding a perfboard so I can replace the USB-C PowerDelivery charger circuit and the BMS, some filing, and a small modification to the audio circuit.

This time we’re working on the rear panel to finish installing TA7MNA’s battery and audio board.

I finally replaced my horrible home-made internal battery and audio board with TA7MNA’s one.

This project may have gone too far.

Continuation of this little project to integrate a GNSS antenna onto the QMX+ cover.

I own a Gigabyte P55-UD3R, paired with a Core i7 860. For many years, it was the core of my home workstation, with 4GB then 8GB central memory, and now it is in my residential server. But with NVME SSDs, virtualized machines and multiple ZFS pools, I wanted to put all the RAM I could on this old motherboard.

I’ve always been impressed by my level of English in my dreams. And I’m French, French people are bad at foreign languages. I used to think that if I could speak it so well without searching for words as I did in real life, then deep down in my brain I had everything I needed to be an excellent English speaker!

I’m running (jogging?) downtown two or three times a week. And I’m an OpenStretMap contributor. And I own a RTK rover. You see where I’m going here.

In the nineties I bought an IBM PC-XT from a classmate. 200 Francs, about 45 € or $ from 2022, for a pretty nice looking computer with his green CRT and 102 keys ISO AZERTY keyboard. I didn’t know what to do with this system and I barely started it every 10 years thinking that one day it will be useful.

Dan Mace is one of my favourites youtubers. I love EVERYTHING in his videos. Everything. And I am always amazed about how he puts his ideas into stories.

I enjoy landscape timelapses, I can watch them for a long time on the web.

I had a little trouble installing Ghost with the SQLite3 backend on FreeBSD. The problem is that there is no precompiled version of node-sqlite3 for FreeBSD and it requires a slight adaptation of the installation process.

I used Matomo for many years as an analytics platform for my websites. two problems here: I am not fond of MySQL/MariaDB (I’m most of a PostgreSQL fan) and Matomo is overkill for my usage. Time to move to GoatCounter!

I am using Isso as a lightweight commenting system for a few websites hosted on my FreeBSD server, and until recently I was using supervisor to daemonize and control the instances. But why using a third party process control system (event if it is does a great job) if we can do it with FreeBSD native mechanisms ?

My approach is to use only built-ins tools from FreeBSD to run a Ghost instance.