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. Qubes OS core team member, former 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.

2023

2023-05-25 Send XMPP messages from the command line

2023-02-16 Lightweight data monitoring using RRDtool

2022

2022-09-16 Using Netdata on NixOS and connecting to Netdata cloud

2022-09-11 Explaining modern server monitoring stacks for self-hosting

2022-07-20 How to account systemd services bandwidth usage on NixOS