Vincent's blog https://vincentdelft.be/rss Vincent's ideas Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:22:00 +0100 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:22:00 +0100 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260924 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260924 A proposition of Boot Environment for VoidLinux running on ZFS Give a shoutout to Irham Setyaki on unsplash.com If you run FreeBSD on ZFS, you probably can't imagine upgrading without bectl anymore. Take a boot environment, run freebsd-update or pkg upgrade, and if something goes wrong, reboot into the previous state. No backup to restore, no rescue USB stick.

]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:34:00 +0100 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260922 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260922 What I did at EuroBSD Brussels Artwork by: Bartel Bruneel Three days in Brussels with the people who build BSD. A training with Kirk McKusick, talks on FreeBSD's future, a museum visit by tram, and long conversations with names I'd only known from mailing lists. I went in wondering how many people actually make a living from BSD. I came back with an answer, a few new friends, and a lot of respect for a community that mostly does this for love, not money.

]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:47:00 +0100 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260918 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260918 Void Linux is very dangerous for FreeBSD on my laptop Give a shoutout to aa aa on unsplash.com This whole thing started because of Stefano and his blog. His guide to installing Void Linux on an encrypted ZFS root with hibernation support was the thing that got me curious enough to actually try it — and, as these things go, curiosity turned into an afternoon spent repartitioning a laptop I use every day. My setup below is simpler than his (no LUKS-encrypted swap, no hibernation), because I just wanted ZFS-on-root dual-booted alongside my existing FreeBSD/GhostBSD/OpenBSD rEFInd menu, but the bones of the approach — and the credit for pointing me at zfsbootmenu in the first place — are his.

]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:47:00 +0100 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260816 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260816 Blogging since a decade Give a shoutout to Natakie Kinnear on unsplash.com

This month, this blog turns 10 years old.

I want to use this anniversary post to look back at everything I've written over the last decade: what has stayed the same, what has evolved, and what I've replaced along the way.

]]> Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:49:00 +0100 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260815 https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260815 Thanks to OpenBSD and Wireguard it's easy to setup a permanent connection with a remote machine behind a NAT Give a shoutout to Yohei Shimomae on unsplash.com

Increasingly, new ISP boxes bundling fiber, TV, and all the bells and whistles no longer allow inbound connections from the outside. Unfortunately, that's exactly what I need — I want to reach my home server from anywhere. Thanks to WireGuard as set up on OpenBSD, there's a very simple solution to this. This post explains how to do it.

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