Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

For my front page, I have a bit of a problem – I want to offer the archives of the entire month, as well as last month via my ‘static content’ section. Why’s this a problem? You can’t just subtract an arbitrary date from PHP and expect it to work. Today – XX days is not going to work. If you tell...

A friend provided me with a tune he created awhile back after he found out I was a modfile addict.

I immediately fell in love with this song and had to get my own hands on it. A few hours after translating it from Impulse Tracker to my own format, adding a few snazzy (read: poor) effects, a brea...

Yep. I guess I’m interested in webservers this month. I’ve ported webfs this time; a small webserver that has full OpenSSL support, minimal CGI support, handles virtualhosts, and is blazingly fast.

I’ve added support for MacOS X, tweaked the building scripts, created an OSX compatible init scrip...

It’s a bit of a ‘new game in town’ as far as Linux distributions go, and is certainly not for the faint of heart, but gentoo is a rather streamlined distribution.

It offers three installation types, a very basic ‘enough to compile and install your own’, ‘a few tools’, and truly, ‘a few more tool...

The Internet Wayback Machine is a set of systems which have been archiving various web pages since about 1996. It’s fun to see how styles and technology has changed, but even more so, sites who did not properly configure their /robots.txt often have some rather hilareous things popping up from ag...

Up until current, I’ve utilized Fink for the majority of library ports which I have not created myself.

With the maturation of DarwinPorts, I’m switching, albiet slowly and somewhat pensively.

DarwinPorts is headed by several well-known BSD folks, including Jordan Hubbard, a good friend – an...