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.

2024

2024-09-12 I moved my emails to Proton Mail

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

2024-07-24 Full-featured email server running OpenBSD

2023

2023-07-07 How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD

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

2023-04-23 Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD

2022

2022-11-18 Pinafore: a light Mastodon web client

2022-04-22 Reduce httpd web server bandwidth usage by serving compressed files

2021

2021-07-23 Why self hosting is important