I am turning 38 years old today. I am on my way to Belgium for the funeral of my grandmother. My family, Marta and Tomas, are at home.

I am in Bielefeld, on top of the hill. This is our usual stop from Berlin to Belgium: it’s practically in the middle.

I am sitting at the bar, and I have just finished a great project I have been working for a few months: revamp my homepage and blog, once again.

I tried a few things getting away from (the great) Wordpress. I was trying to make my own again, doing it with Django or Flask, I am a Python guy after all. I tried to do something with my OwnCloud setup, with files, but that was so 1990s, writing HTML.

Giving up, I did a search for “generate static website” and I pretty much hit the first link: “Jekyll”. It is written in Ruby, so I am …

Again, I have moved to a new hosting provider after my free-tier with Amazon EC2 expired.  As usual I was looking for a good VPS provider with a decent price, providing good support and in particular a provider supporting FreeBSD, my favorite OS for server (for desktop I still prefer GNU/Linux.)

This time I have carefully reviewed many options and have finally settled with RootBSD, one of the reputed VPS hosting providers if you are choosing FreeBSD as your server OS.  One of the prime reasons for choosing FreeBSD is its performance, stability and the FreeBSD ports system.

Although my …