Initially, Jailer has had a single image format to download, the “FreeBSD base image”, also known as base.txz.
Now we’re trying to integrate PkgBase, OCI images, Jailer binary images, Jailer source images (jailerfile), Linux bootstrap images, and regular tarballs.
This is the point where I just want to kill myself. This is harder than expected.
Linux has a package management problem. I’m having a “too many registry types” problem.
Let’s see how it goes.
#Jailer #FreeBSD
I’m having a hard time understanding how these BootCamps work. Their whole value is teaching people how to code, sometimes they also teach programming, but not always. As far as I can tell, they never teach how to use a computer, which is weird.
Take car mechanics as an example, I assume they know how to use a car and the basics of how it works before they start fixing things. But the same doesn’t seem to be true about coding/programming.
I met with a couple of students today who were going to a BootCamp to learn coding-y, DevOps-y and Security things, but they were not able to define what an OS process is. They also had a hard time interacting with a computer.
How did we get here? No, this is not a rhetorical question, I really want to know.
I’m not saying that everyone should know everything about every operating system, but during your work, where you get paid, you will need to use tools such as grep, AWK, xargs, etc.
I remember, once, years ago, I was supposed to teach “security” to a group of students, but I realized it would be more helpful if I teach them Unix and computer networking, so we ended up doing that.
Months after their graduation, I saw one of the students, and he asked me “hey, can we do these Unix classes again? Looks like they were important”.
I ended up mentoring him, and now he does mostly Taco Bell programming and he gets things done.
My feeling is that we need a book for everyone that’s named “learn this before learning how to program” and we teach basic things such as process management, service management, the Unix shell, how a computer network works, etc.
But alas, I barely have time to blog, however I feel that this computer book would be a best seller everywhere.
Back to work, cheers.
The cab driver is playing classical music, Symphony in C: IV. Finale (Allegro Vivace) by Orchestre National de France & Jean Martinon to be more specific and I’m loving it.
Looks like someone will be getting ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a large tip.
I’m pretty sure it’s radio (I can see the music player) but it’s still lovely.
The FreeBSD Developer Summit Day One was live streamed yesterday and the video is up on YouTube at May 2024 Developer Summit Day 1.
I will be watching Day Two live as well, and I love how FreeBSD brings us all together.
We have moved the Vishap Oberon Compiler GitHub organization to vishapoberon, this is part of our new rebranding. The new domain will be vishap.oberon.am and we will finally have some ecosystem up and running, such as OberonByExample, official guide, docs, and compiler internals.
As a cautious hacker, I also created another organization that uses the old org name, since GitHub still allows org/repo hijacking.
Also, we have a new library coming soon, I think the scientific community will love it, as it computes 150x faster than the most common alternative.
Well, Twitter is officially useless. All I get is engagement posts like “Do you use X or Y?” and the X or the Y are options such as Coke or Pepsi.
I know that they are different things, but the right answer here is water, or tea, or coffee.
And I keep changing from “For You” to “Following” but for some reason Twitter (currently known as X) keeps changing it back to “For You”.
I had to log out. Sorry Twitter, you were an important part of our life, but not anymore.
On the other hand, my Mastodon feed is really nice. There are some political things here and there that irritate me, but I care about what my friends have to say, even if I don’t agree with everything.
I love ZFS…
root@evn0:/var/log/named # du -h -d 1 1.4G . root@evn0:/var/log/named # du -A -h -d 1 7.4G .
I spent some time and moved my What I Use page to WordPress. I finally have a good reason to use the details HTML tag.
I also updated the content! My new music player(s) is the iPod! More about that, soon!
If you’re seeing this then the migration is done! The weblog has moved from weblog.antranigv.am to antranigv.am.
I have also spent some time updating my About page, I hope I haven’t missed anything important. I will be adding more pages soon, such as link to friends, blogs that I read, what I use, etc.
I hope ActivityPub is working properly with the new domain.
Long Live The Web!
Once a month, the WordPress app on my iPhone stops working. Specifically, it stops loading and sending data. It just “hangs” there. I’m honestly considering using the mobile web interface to blog remotely.
I wish there was MarsEdit for mobile…
Any alternatives or suggestions? Maybe I should use the “Post via Email” feature like back in the good old days 🙂