About me: My name is Solène Rapenne, pronouns she/her. I like learning and sharing knowledge. Hobbies: '(BSD OpenBSD Qubes OS Lisp cmdline gaming security QubesOS internet-stuff). I love percent and lambda characters. OpenBSD developer solene@. No AI is involved in this blog.

Contact me: solene at dataswamp dot org or @solene@bsd.network (mastodon).

I'm a freelance OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and Qubes OS consultant, this includes DevOps, DevSecOps, technical writing or documentation work. If you enjoy this blog, you can sponsor my open source work financially so I can write this blog and contribute to Free Software as my daily job.

2024

2024-11-15 Why I stopped using OpenBSD

2024-09-10 Self-hosting at home and privacy

2024-06-24 The Old Computer Challenge v4 (Olympics edition)

2024-01-18 This blog is AI free

2024-01-10 Overcoming imposter syndrome in IT

2024-01-09 2024 plans and 2023 retrospective

2023

2023-08-31 My top 20 video games

2023-07-24 Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station

2023-06-04 The Old Computer Challenge V3

2023-03-17 L'État m'impose Google (ou Apple)

2023-03-13 Launching on Patreon

2022

2022-11-03 Mirroring sources used in nixpkgs (software preservation)

2022-10-10 Boredom land with NixOS

2022-10-02 The top 10 things about blog and IT you should know

2022-09-24 My NixOS workflow after migrating from OpenBSD

2022-08-28 My blog workflow

2022-07-19 The Old Computer Challenge V2: done!

2022-07-15 Storing information on paper using the Pen To Paper protocol

2022-07-14 The Old Computer Challenge V2: day 5

2022-07-11 The Old Computer Challenge V2: day 2

2022-07-10 The Old Computer Challenge V2: day 1

2022-07-01 The Old Computer Challenge V2: back to RTC

2022-04-29 Blog post: just having fun making games

2022-04-18 Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS

2022-01-08 My plans for 2022

2021

2021-11-10 How I ended up liking GNOME

2021-09-16 Experimenting with a new OpenBSD development lab

2021-09-15 Blog update 2021

2021-09-09 Dear open source developers

2021-07-26 The Old Computer Challenge: 10 days later, what changed?

2021-07-23 Why self hosting is important

2021-07-16 The Old Computer Challenge: day 7

2021-07-15 The Old Computer Challenge: day 6

2021-07-12 The Old Computer Challenge: day 3

2021-07-10 The Old Computer Challenge: day 1

2021-07-09 Obsolete in the IT crossfire

2021-01-06 Free time partitionning

2021-01-04 Toward a simpler lifestyle

2021-01-03 [FR] Méthodes de publication de mon blog sur plusieurs médias

2021-01-03 My blog workflow

2020

2020-11-16 Why I use OpenBSD

2020-11-10 About the offline laptop project

2020-03-17 Advice for working remotely from home

2020-02-19 A day as an OpenBSD developer

2020-02-18 Daily life with the offline laptop

2019

2019-11-13 Host your own wikipedia backup

2019-08-23 Life with an offline laptop