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Antranig Vartanian

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160 from 26 May 2018 to 5 Aug 2026
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now and then (3 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 3

  1. TIL zfs-userspace(8)
  2. Music Monday: Bzdig Zinvor / Little Soldier by Armenian Navy Band
  3. Tired

2025 16

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  5. Analyzing FreeBSD’s Package Mirror GeoDNS
  6. Migrating to FreeBSD -CURRENT with pkgbase using Boot Environments
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  9. Syrian-Armenian Stories: My first hack, Arcades, Syrian Parties and Mortal Kombat
  10. Enabling DTrace in Python on FreeBSD (again)
  11. Adding ActivityPub Reactions to WordPress themes
  12. Top 5 investments of January 2025
  13. Setting ZFS ARC maximum on illumos
  14. Changing FreeBSD’s rcorder without patching
  15. FreeBSD-Update and ~200 Jails
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2024 22

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  2. First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released
  3. Music Monday: History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
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  5. dtrace.conf is back as dtrace.conf(24)
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  7. How to Make Your Website Not Ugly by Hilary Stohs-Krause
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  9. Music Monday: Stay With Me by Miki Matsubara
  10. The FreeBSD-native-ish home lab and network
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  14. MarsEdit 5.2: Search, Microposting, and Preview Improvements
  15. Installing FreeBSD with Root-on-ZFS on Vultr using iPXE
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  17. AI, LLMs and beginners
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  19. Installing DFIR-IRIS on FreeBSD using Jails
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  21. Mirroring OmniOS: The Complete Guide; Part One
  22. macOS log(1): Finding out the previous name of BT device

2023 55

  1. macOS Sonoma’s Keyboard Layout Switching: When Apple needs actual diversity
  2. Generating SSHFP Records
  3. What i use
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  5. November and Rain
  6. macOS Desktops limit?
  7. Upcoming migration
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  11. bhyve CPU Allocation Test for 256 core machine
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  13. FreeBSD Jail booting & running Devuan GNU+Linux with OpenRC
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  15. Alecu Ștefan-Iulian about (not) “obsolete” languages
  16. Incident Postmortem: BSD.am home server @ 3-4 July 2023
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  20. Pen and Paper
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  23. 5 Years of Blogging
  24. Domains as Verification
  25. Downtime for the rest of us
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  27. More macOS Display Resolutions
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  29. FreeBSD package repo with specific versions
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  31. Apple Arcade’s TMNT Splintered Fate talking Open-Source and InfoSec
  32. News in Skype?
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  34. Light & Dark Wallpapers for iOS: Solving a problem that Apple created
  35. libucl wrapper in Oberon-2 for Vishap Oberon Compiler
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  37. libxo wrapper in Oberon-2 for Vishap Oberon Compile
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  42. Design Guidelines vs Pushing The Limits
  43. WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can join the Fediverse
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  46. Call For Testing: Jailer v0.1.1
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  49. Unshallow Git
  50. Reply from National Vulnerability Database Team regarding Legacy Data Feeds
  51. Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
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2022 38

  1. iPad with Magic Keyboard
  2. Apple updated macOS’s date(1)!
  3. Obsidian vim
  4. 78 hours remaining
  5. Software Review: #MarsEdit version 5
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  8. FreeBSD arm64.aarch64 on QEMU/UTM with better (but not perfect) graphics
  9. Unix User empty string?
  10. Running arm64.aarch64 FreeBSD on QEMU/UTM.app on Apple Silicon
  11. Music Monday: My Blue Heaven by Lucy Yeghiazaryan
  12. DND IRL
  13. Bookmarklets are amazing, still
  14. Quitting Smoking, Again
  15. iOS ships Dvorak, finally
  16. Made it to 11011
  17. Using Significant Energy
  18. The command command
  19. BSDCan 2022 Talks and Scary Thumbnail
  20. Meta-programming in Shell
  21. Hard-wired Indicators
  22. United Nations-y
  23. Music Monday: Shoushiki by Komitas Quartet
  24. Music Monday: Man With The Red Face
  25. Moving (back) to WordPress
  26. Thoughts №122127
  27. Blogging on static generated sites with OPML and XSLT in 2022
  28. Git Remote URL, the lazy way
  29. Music Monday: Arto Tunçboyacıyan – Dolma Mama
  30. Tweeting with Huginn and Twurl
  31. Music Monday: Fenne Lily — Three Oh Nine
  32. Citing Saturday: John le Carré
  33. Huginn on FreeBSD
  34. Fortune in Times of Need
  35. Music Monday: gorgeouz beats
  36. ZFS compression is so good that it cost me 2 hours
  37. Techlife Crisis
  38. Wrong Indicators

2021 16

  1. 2021 Retrospective
  2. WireGuard “dynamic” routing on FreeBSD
  3. Car accident and pain
  4. VoidLinux in FreeBSD Jail; with init
  5. Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture
  6. Comments are back
  7. The long awaited vacation
  8. Music.app is a good radio app
  9. Good bloggers write a lot
  10. Two Colons Equals Modules
  11. The OS App vs The Browser OS
  12. Barcamp EVN21, or why we don't build more products
  13. How I got fired from my first tech job
  14. VNET Jail HowTo Part 2: Networking
  15. Migrating home-servers
  16. Blogging Regularly

2020 7

  1. Flickr’s Uploads from everyone from The Future
  2. macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a why I left macOS
  3. Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD
  4. Erlang dbg Intro
  5. autofs on macOS Catalina
  6. VNET Jail HowTo
  7. FreeBSD Root-on-ZFS Migration

2019 1

  1. Setting route interface in FreeBSD

2018 2

  1. FreeBSD USB Disk and ZVOL Encryption with GELI
  2. Welcome