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State of Go 2016

On: 03 Feb 2016 By: Jason Barbier · Go Languages

The State of Go 2016 Looking at some of the stuff comming out of Go right now I am getting really interested in it again as a primary utility language. The slide deck I am referencing is at https://talks.golang.org/2016/state-of-go.slide#1. Crusing through this deck it looks like the Go people are committed to making Go great and with all the changes that have went in the past year they are succeeding. Take a peek at the deck and be prepared to be amazed.

Visual Studio Code

On: 26 Oct 2015 By: Jason Barbier · Editors

Visual Studio Code Visual studio code, the new editor from MSFT. I’ve made the switch to Visual Studio Code about 4 months ago and have loved it so far. But it is missing some very key features to become my daily driver. Let me dive a bit more into it.

ODroid-XU4 thoughts.

On: 23 Oct 2015 By: Jason Barbier · Hardware OpenBSD

ODroid-XU4 thoughts. About a week ago I managed to pickup an Odroid-XU4 from HardKernel and overall have had a very good first impression of it.

Upcomming Bsides PDX Conference.

On: 13 Oct 2015 By: Jason Barbier · Conferences

Upcomming Bsides PDX Conference. Here toward the end of the week I will be out at the Bsides PDX security conference.

UEFI on OpenBSD

On: 12 Oct 2015 By: Jason Barbier · OpenBSD UEFI

UEFI on OpenBSD After tons of hardwork a group of dedicated hackers have finally put out a UEFI boot loader for OpenBSD. While the installer does not yet deal with EFI boot blocks they are easily installed manually.

vmm(4) on OpenBSD

On: 09 Sep 2015 By: Jason Barbier · OpenBSD

vmm(4) on OpenBSD Thanks to work by mlarkin@ OpenBSD is that much closer to having a native hypervisor and honestly I think this is a game changer.

Owncloud discovery

On: 07 Jan 2015 By: Jason Barbier · OpenBSD

Owncloud discovery My Thanks go out to Ryek on this I was reading though the OpenBSD mailing lists this morning and tripped over a nice write up I wanted to share Running ownCloud with HTTPD on OpenBSD

GitHub Pages

On: 03 Nov 2014 By: Jason Barbier · thoughts

My First week with GitHub Pages. So I decided that I wanted to have my tech log here hosted somewhere and wanted easy static sites.

Thanks Freenode!

On: 30 Oct 2014 By: Jason Barbier · thoughts

Thanks Freenode! So while I was reading various things today I tripped over http://blog.freenode.net/2014/10/user-enabled-sendpass. So now if for some reason you forgot your nickserv password you just pop in /msg NickServ SENDPASS <account> and then if you have an email address attached to your nickserv account you now can reset your own password and not have to wait for an admin to pop on, reconize you, then send you the reset mail.

OpenSMTPD virtual users using SQLite

On: 09 Jun 2014 By: Jason Barbier · sqlite OpenSMTPD virtual users how-to

OpenSMTPD virtual users using SQLite So boys and girls I managed to get virtual users with username@domain.tld to work with OpenSMTPD, and let me explain it off to you all.