From 1eee0c8e2c1bf7f2021f4a1a82e79626b88fada3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Buetow
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2026 00:36:04 +0200
Subject: Update content for html
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diff --git a/about/resources.html b/about/resources.html
index 53091903..cad716ae 100644
--- a/about/resources.html
+++ b/about/resources.html
@@ -50,112 +50,112 @@
In random order:
+
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
+
Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
+
The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
+
Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
+
The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
+
The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
+
The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
+
Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
+
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
+
Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
+
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
+
The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
+
Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
-
Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
-
Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
+
DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
-
Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
-
Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
-
Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
-
Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
-
The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
+
Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
+
Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
+
Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+
Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
-
Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
-
Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
-
Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
-
Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
-
Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
-
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
-
The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
-
DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
-
The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
-
The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
-
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
-
Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
-
Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
-
Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
-
Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
+
Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
-
Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
-
Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
+
Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
-
Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
-
The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
+
Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
+
Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
+
The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+
Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
-
Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
-
Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
-
Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
-
Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
-
DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
-
Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
-
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
+
Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
+
Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
+
Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
+
Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
+
Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
-
The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
+
Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
+
Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
+
Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
+
Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
+
DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
-
Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
-
Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
-
Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
+
Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
+
Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
+
Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
Technical references
I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things. The books are in random order:
-
Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
-
Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
+
BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
+
Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
+
Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
-
Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
-
BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
-
Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
+
Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
+
Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
Self-development and soft-skills books
In random order:
+
Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
+
Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+
Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
+
Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
+
Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
+
The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
-
Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
-
97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
-
Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
+
Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
+
Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
-
The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
-
Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
-
Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
-
The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
-
Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
-
Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
-
So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
+
Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
+
Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
+
Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
+
Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
+
The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
+
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
+
The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
+
So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
+
Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
-
Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-
Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
-
Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
-
The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
-
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
-
Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
-
The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
-
Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
-
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
-
Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
+
The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
+
Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
+
97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
+
Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
+
Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
+
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
+
The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
+
Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
Getting Things Done; David Allen
-
Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
+
Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
-
Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-
The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
-
Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
-
Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
-
Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
@@ -164,31 +164,31 @@
Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:
-
Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
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The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
-
F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
-
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
-
Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
-
Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
-
The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
-
Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
+
The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
-
Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
+
Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
+
MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
+
Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
+
Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
+
Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
+
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
+
Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
+
The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
+
F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
-
MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
Technical guides
These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:
-
How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
+
How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
Podcasts
@@ -197,21 +197,21 @@
In random order:
-
Wednesday Wisdom
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Cup o' Go [Golang]
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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
-
Maintainable
-
Dev Interrupted
-
The Changelog Podcast(s)
Backend Banter
-
Fallthrough [Golang]
+
The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
BSD Now [BSD]
Fork Around And Find Out
Hidden Brain
-
The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
+
Fallthrough [Golang]
+
Dev Interrupted
Pratical AI
+
Wednesday Wisdom
+
Maintainable
+
The Changelog Podcast(s)
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Cup o' Go [Golang]
Modern Mentor
+
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
Podcasts I liked
@@ -219,10 +219,10 @@
Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
-
CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
+
Modern Mentor
FLOSS weekly
+
CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
Java Pub House
-
Modern Mentor
Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
Newsletters I like
@@ -230,28 +230,28 @@
This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:
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Changelog News
Golang Weekly
-
VK Newsletter
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The Imperfectionist
+
Ruby Weekly
+
Changelog News
The Pragmatic Engineer
The Valuable Dev
Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
-
Monospace Mentor
-
Ruby Weekly
-
The Imperfectionist
-
Register Spill
byteSizeGo
+
Register Spill
+
Monospace Mentor
+
VK Newsletter
Magazines I like(d)
This is a mix of tech I like(d). I may not be a current subscriber, but now and then, I buy an issue. In random order:
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Linux Magazine
LWN (online only)
-
freeX (not published anymore)
+
Linux Magazine
Linux User
+
freeX (not published anymore)
Formal education
diff --git a/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.html b/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.html
index 470a19e7..8c00b326 100644
--- a/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.html
+++ b/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.html
@@ -983,18 +983,24 @@ paul@f1:~ % doas zfs list -t snapshot -r zdata/sink | grep zrepl | tail -
First, we add the CARP configuration to /etc/rc.conf on both f0 and f1:
+Update: Sun 4 Jan 00:17:00 EET 2026 - Added advskew 100 to f1 so f0 always wins CARP elections when it comes back online after a reboot.
+
-
# The virtual IP 192.168.1.138 will float between f0 and f1
+
# On f0 - The virtual IP 192.168.1.138 will float between f0 and f1
ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet vhid 1 pass testpass alias 192.168.1.138/32"
+
+# On f1 - Higher advskew means lower priority, so f0 wins elections
+ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet vhid 1 advskew 100 pass testpass alias 192.168.1.138/32"
Whereas:
vhid 1: Virtual Host ID - must match on all CARP members
+
advskew: Advertisement skew - higher value means lower priority (f1 uses 100, f0 uses default 0)
pass testpass: Password for CARP authentication (if you follow this, use a different password!)
alias 192.168.1.138/32: The virtual IP address with a /32 netmask
diff --git a/gemfeed/atom.xml b/gemfeed/atom.xml
index 781298dd..a6cb7bb4 100644
--- a/gemfeed/atom.xml
+++ b/gemfeed/atom.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- 2026-01-04T00:05:40+02:00
+ 2026-01-04T00:34:59+02:00foo.zone feedTo be in the .zone!
@@ -7381,18 +7381,24 @@ paul@f1:~ % doas zfs list -t snapshot -r zdata/sink | grep zrepl | tail -
First, we add the CARP configuration to /etc/rc.conf on both f0 and f1:
+Update: Sun 4 Jan 00:17:00 EET 2026 - Added advskew 100 to f1 so f0 always wins CARP elections when it comes back online after a reboot.
+
-
# The virtual IP 192.168.1.138 will float between f0 and f1
+
# On f0 - The virtual IP 192.168.1.138 will float between f0 and f1
ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet vhid 1 pass testpass alias 192.168.1.138/32"
+
+# On f1 - Higher advskew means lower priority, so f0 wins elections
+ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet vhid 1 advskew 100 pass testpass alias 192.168.1.138/32"
Whereas:
vhid 1: Virtual Host ID - must match on all CARP members
+
advskew: Advertisement skew - higher value means lower priority (f1 uses 100, f0 uses default 0)
pass testpass: Password for CARP authentication (if you follow this, use a different password!)
alias 192.168.1.138/32: The virtual IP address with a /32 netmask
-This site was last updated at 2026-01-04T00:05:40+02:00
+This site was last updated at 2026-01-04T00:34:59+02:00
The following stats were collected via uptimed on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by guprecords, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine.