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Wally Jones

nil.wallyjones.com

If you're curious about the name Nil, well, there's nothing particularly interesting behind it. Naming things is just difficult .

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Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

My homepage now runs on OpenBSD with httpd(8) and Let's Encrypt via acme-client(1) . I previously hosted it on GitHub Pages and then eventually moved to Cloudflare Pages because both options were free and easy. Free and easy is cool, and I understand that writing software full-time leaves us wanting absolutely nothing…

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What Shell Am I Using?

I wanted to install the latest version of zsh on my MacBook Pro. This is usually the first thing I install when setting up a new machine. A brew install zsh and a chsh later and I'm good to go (well, technically I had to add the homebrew location of zsh to /etc/shells as well). Close out Terminal.app and reopen to…