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OpenBSD now synchronised with Unison as 'offline' copy

Posted on zo 25 oktober 2026 in 2026

So yesterday I tested unison would be a decent tool to synchronise the git source repositories between my Debian laptop and my Macos laptop.

With that tested and working, I figured doing something similar between my Debian laptop and my OpenBSD laptop would also work. And it would be an …


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Synchronising files with Unison

Posted on za 24 oktober 2026 in 2026

If you need to copy a lot of data from A to B, in an incremental way, rsync is a very well tested solution. I've been using rsync since I don't know when but very probably since the last millennium. And by using I mean doing proper data migrations in …


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Raspberry Pi is getting busy

Posted on vr 16 oktober 2026 in 2026

A while back I added k3s to both of my Raspberry Pi 5 devices running Debian 13 Trixie. The idea is to run most software in a containerized manner. The last couple of days I've been adding some stuff and now one of the Pi devices is actually getting a …


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Debian 13 setup notes

Posted on wo 14 oktober 2026 in 2026

This is just a list of manual tasks that I still need to automate at some point. Left here as a pointer for future self

krew

To get the oidc-login plugin working in kubectl I needed to install krew first. source

(
  set -x; cd "$(mktemp -d)" &&
  OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper …

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Unpretentious automation using justfile

Posted on zo 11 oktober 2026 in 2026

There are one-off shell commands, there are shell script that you run, comment and rerun. And there is proper automation. Repeatable, visible, tested. A nice CI/CD pipeline using your technology of choice, all with test cases, secrets management, maybe alerting. The works.

But last year I came across something …


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