<p>One “biggie” that was holding up this blog’s migration to a static site was getting a comments system up and running, followed by importing the existing comments. I had picked <a href="https://posativ.org/isso/docs/">Isso</a> a while back as it allows for easy import of existing comments from WordPress. I really didn’t want to depend on a third party comment hosting service like Disqus. I also didn’t want to use Staticman, mainly because it has dependencies on…

<p>I have a few more loose ends to tidy up before switching to the static version of the blog. One of the important tasks was to make sure I had a spell checker available. Back in the dim and distant past I had set up <code>flyspell-mode</code> with <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/03/03/setting-up-emacs-spell-checking-on-os-x/">hunspell</a>, but I wanted to check if there was something better available these days. Enter <a href="https://abiword.github.io/enchant/">enchant</a>,…

<p>Now that I’ve got the static site up and running, it’s obviously time to switch over immediately, right? Not to fast. After QA’ing my deployment process in production, it was time to check how the two compared from a performance perspective. I like to use several different tests, starting with <a href="https://tools.pingdom.com/">Pingdom</a>, then using <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/">PageSpeed Insights</a> for more details.</p>

<p> I have been toying with the idea of migrating this blog to a static site to simplify its maintenance for some time. While <a href="https://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> is a great tool, this blog is a side project and any time I have to spend maintaining WordPress gets deducted from the time I have to write for the blog. Keep in mind that I'm self-hosting this blog and it's actually running on a Linux VM that only handles the blog. This is yet another server that I need to administer,…

<p>I’ve mentioned in the past how you can configure the <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2018/01/24/how-to-enable-logging-for-the-mongodb-java-driver/">MongoDB Java driver output from Java</a>. Most Clojure applications that use MongoDB use a database driver that wraps the official MongoDB Java driver. I personally use <a href="https://github.com/michaelklishin/monger">monger</a> for a lot of my projects, but also occasionally created my own wrapper. The methods described in…

<p>I don’t usually do Happy New Year posts, but given how “well” 2020 went I thought it was appropriate to start 2021 with a whimsy post.  This post is probably going to date me since it’s been a few years - OK, decades - since these were current.</p>

<p><em>Update 2021-12-18: It looks like the rdiff-backup port has been removed from the FreeBSD ports tree, so installing it via the port is definitely not an option anymore. Also, the method described below works on FreeBSD 13.0 as well.</em></p>

<p>In <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2020/01/16/building-an-openbsd-wireguard-vpn-server-part-2-unbound-dns-setup/">part 2</a>, I reconfigured my WireGuard VPN to use an Unbound DNS server on the VPN server rather than rely on a third party server I had used for the original quick and dirty configuration. It was important for me to set up a validating DNS server, which I did in that part.</p>

<p>In the <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/12/27/building-an-openbsd-wireguard-server/">first part</a>, I described how I set up the basic OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server. I also hinted that I wanted to set up my own validating, filtering DNS server. With a little bit of spare time during the holidays I decided now was a good time as any.</p>

<p>In my <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/11/27/looks-like-i-get-to-redo-my-wireguard-vpn-server/">previous post</a>, I mentioned that I somehow ended up with a corrupted filesystem on the WireGuard server <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/01/21/setting-up-my-own-vpn-server-on-vultr-with-centos-7-and-wireguard/">I had set up earlier this year</a>. That iteration of my VPN server was built on Linux as I expected I would get better performance using the kernel-based…