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1. Eleven Links of Note - January 3rd, 2026

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   • Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature: Literature made 95 years are now free.
   • Kubernetes Networking from Packets to Pods: A closer look at Kubernetes Networking. It can get confusing.
   • Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv?: I used uv to install ansible and to say that is fast …

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2. Eleven Links of Note - December 28th, 2025

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   • Why I Ditched Docker for Podman (And You Should Too): I have been using podman for a while on my desktops. I don't miss Docker. Only time I use docker is with my work laptop.
   • The Learnix Operating System: A teaching OS, like minix, but in rust.
   • Understanding …

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3. Eleven Links of Note - December 26th, 2025

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   • Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust: It'd be a fun experiment, though.
   • 27 Trending Self-Hosted Projects on GitHub You NEED to Try
   • AMD first entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago: And today, it is flying high
   • Do You Need a Service …

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4. FreeBSD and chef-client - a part II (of sorts)

   Finally changed chef-client with an updated recipe to support FreeBSD.

   Under the chef-repo/chef-client directory, I added the following files:

   ./templates/freebsd/rc.d/chef-client.erb
   ./templates/freebsd/rc.conf.d/chef.erb
   

   And updated:

   ./recipes/service.rb
   

   The locations corresponds to the directory location under the default #{conf} directory …

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