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.

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2024

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