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The VM answered pings, so it was on the network. Only SSH said Connection refused, and CPU load sat at zero. No panic, no full filesystem. A machine alive enough to answer packets but not alive enough to let you in is the most unpleasant kind of failure. What came before it was an ordinary … Weiterlesen

🇬🇧 This article is in English. Eine deutsche Fassung gibt es als separaten Beitrag. Last month, Oracle released yet another Critical Patch Update. For most people that is a side note. For me it means: spending my evenings updating the MySQL ports in the FreeBSD tree, chasing the changes through the build process, writing advisories … Weiterlesen

🇬🇧 This article is in English. Eine deutsche Fassung gibt es als separaten Beitrag. Let me be honest right from the start: FreeIPA is the biggest thing I have taken on so far. BunkerWeb was a reverse proxy, code-server an (admittedly stubborn) Node.js project. FreeIPA, on the other hand, isn’t a single program but a … Weiterlesen

VS Code in the browser, native on FreeBSD – and why it took years to get there After BunkerWeb , here is the next porting chronicle: code-server – Visual Studio Code as a server-side application in the browser. Since June 21, 2026, www/code-server has been part of the FreeBSD Ports Collection. And the road there was anything but an ordinary Node.js port. 1. Why code-server on FreeBSD? code-server takes the open-source core … Read more →

From Linux project to native port – a development chronicle Sometimes it all starts with a simple question: Which WAF can I run on FreeBSD in production? The answer I found: none that I really liked. So I solved the problem myself – and brought BunkerWeb into the FreeBSD Ports Collection. This article describes the road there: architecture decisions, setbacks, solutions, and everything that happened between the first make and the final … Read more →