Everything I have currently is pretty much working and maintaining itself. My logs are quiet and predictable. It’s been nice.

I do have two things to do. One is it switch from iptables to nftables because podman is depreciating support for iptables. I absolutely hate working with firewalls, the syntax is always awful. For some reason ufw isn’t working with nftables like I hoped so now I’m working up the energy to learn nftables itself.

The other thing to do is to update Alpine Linux to the latest release version. I’m trying to figure out how to properly update the cache of installed packages on my main computer. After that I should be able to run my upgrade script and things should take care of itself. I hope. With Alpine I usually wait a month or two after the initial release of a new version, things always seem to break if I update immediately and I don’t want to trouble shoot too many things.

Other than that, I’ve gone back to making functional scripts again. Currently I am working on a new backup script that handles logging and automated rotation of backup snapshots. It’ll be POSIX portable and easy to integrate with crontab. It’s essentially the culmination of all my POSIX shell scripting knowledge. I just have to figure out one last and huge hurdle and I’ll be happy with the script.

I too was upset with the use of Claude/AI/LLM’s in the rsync project. The maintainer received a lot of public backlash and as a result people have offered their time to help the maintainer with this project.

Since the backlash, the use of agents has been drastically reduced. That seems like a very human and overall positive response. It sucks that it happened. It’s nice that people are now doing the work again. The response could have been a lot worse. I can be forgiving in this specific situation.

I do like the challenge of POSIX scripts.

I’ve remade a handful of GNU extensions as POSIX scripts/functions. I also just enjoy trying to be as minimal as possible and building my own tools. It helps me understand how operating systems in the process too

Most of my work is on codeberg

It can be a challenge though since all searches default to bash/GNU extensions

I started with Mint. My next and last stop was Alpine. I started trying to host my own website on a Raspberry Pi and ended up switching my laptop over to Alpine so that I could consistently learn on one operating system

I also found a side hobby in making POSIX portable scripts which goes nicely with self-hosting. It’s great having a lean and customized desktop just for myself even if it took a long time to learn how to make it all work