Running NATS on a FreeBSD Jail

Last few months I played with FreeBSD and my Rock64 embedded boards [1] [2]. I really enjoyed the experience and I wanted to go to the next level and experiment with FreeBSD jails. I was surprised how easy (and logical) it was to create and manage an isolated environment. I also noticed that the low level commands have been wrapped into a more user friendly interfaces (like bastille) making the whole experience more enjoyable....

January 1, 2025 · 7 min · Simone Vellei

3 anni da remoto, 12 lezioni imparate

Ho sempre sognato di lavorare da remoto. La possibilità di gestire il mio tempo, di lavorare da qualsiasi luogo e di conciliare meglio vita personale e professionale sembrava un’utopia fino a pochi anni fa. Intendiamoci, ci sono stati Paesi precursori, come gli Stati Uniti, dove il lavoro da remoto, oggi, è una realtà consolidata, o i paesi scandinavi, dove la flessibilità lavorativa rappresenta una prassi diffusa. Ma in Italia, fino a pochi anni fa, il lavoro da remoto era considerato un vero e proprio tabù....

November 15, 2024 · 4 min · Simone Vellei

NetBSD on a ROCK64 Board

This is the sequel to the previous post FreeBSD on a ROCK64 Board. Long story short, I had the chance to resurrect 4 single-board computers that were collecting dust in my office. I decided to install FreeBSD on one of them and it was a success. This time I will show you how and why I installed NetBSD on a second ROCK64 board. Let’s add connectivity to the FreeBSD board The process I described in the previous post was fun and I learned a lot....

November 9, 2024 · 5 min · Simone Vellei

FreeBSD on a ROCK64 Board

This is a story about an embedded board and a BSD system. The title could have been “How to resurrect a forgotten board and fall in love with BSD operating systems, again”. It all started 6 years ago when I bought 4 Pine Rock64 boards, with a well planned project in my mind. Each board was equipped with a Rockchip RK3328 quad-core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of eMMC storage, and a Gigabit Ethernet port....

November 1, 2024 · 8 min · Simone Vellei

Anthropic's Claude Integration with Go and Lingoose

In the ever-changing world of artificial intelligence, a new AI assistant called Claude has arrived on the scene, and it’s turning heads. Created by a company called Anthropic, Claude is incredibly smart and can understand and communicate with humans in very natural, human-like ways. What makes Claude so special is the way it has been trained. The folks at Anthropic fed Claude a massive amount of data, which allows it to truly grasp how we humans speak and write....

March 26, 2024 · 3 min · Simone Vellei