Computing · ChachDotOrg

Intel P55 and 32GB RAM

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.

IBM Model M keyboard bolt-mod, USB & QMK

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.

Ghost & SQLite on FreeBSD

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.

Ghost, GoatCounter & Nginx

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!

Isso & FreeBSD rc.d

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 ?

Ghost CMS and FreeBSD integration

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