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Upstream released sesh 2.27.0 while misc/sesh was still at 2.26.1. I added the package earlier this year, but this was the first time I upgraded a package written in Go, so I made some notes about the Go-specific steps. The general pkgsrc update procedure applies as usual; the new part is go-modules.mk, the file listing all the Go module distfiles fetched from the module proxy. (more…)

WordPress Site Health had been nagging me to use a persistent object cache. I already run Zend OpCache, so I wondered what else I needed.

OpCache is an opcode cache: it stores the compiled bytecode of the PHP source so the engine need not recompile it on every request. The object cache is a different layer, holding the results of database queries and transients. WordPress ships with a non-persistent object cache that lives only for the duration of a single request; making it persistent means backing it with something that survives across requests, such as Redis.

On this site I manage the WordPress tree with svn and do not let PHP write into it, which changes a couple of the steps from the usual click-in-the-dashboard instructions. While I also generally prefer nginx and PHP-FPM, this site is still on Apache with mod_php. However, the installation is basically the same regardless of the web server software, but troubleshooting differs between them. I’m covering both here. (more…)

Twenty years of orbiting is a good run, I’d say.

Thank you to everyone in the NetBSD community whose posts kept the planet spinning all these years, and thank you to Venus — and Sam Ruby before it — for making the aggregator possible in the first place. Now we must say goodbye to things Python 2.7.

I dedicated a VM for running AI CLI tools. Consider it a kind of a sandbox, if you will. (more…)

Some additional steps were necessary when upgrading to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE: (more…)

Here are some quick notes for how I got a Rocky Linux 9.3 VM up and running. (more…)

I got a new MBP a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been migrating things to it from my previous 2015 MBP. A couple of days ago I went to a different site on my UniFi network, and unexpectedly WiFi performance on the new MBP M2 was abysmal (more…)

Using a virtual PTP hardware clock with the ptp_kvm driver and chrony is an easy solution for keeping time on guest machines synchronized to their host. Ideally the host is already keeping accurate time by tracking a set of NTP servers, but it is still probably a good idea to still add some network NTP peers on guests as well. (more…)