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Christian Hofstede-Kuhn
Personal blog · blog.hofstede.itsystemsprogramming
Christian Hofstede-Kuhn writes Larvitz Blog, a personal blog at blog.hofstede.it about systems and programming. Since 2025, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on integrating FreeBSD 15 with FreeIPA for Kerberos and LDAP authentication. One commenter compares it with a more detailed guide on the same setup, calling this one higher level.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technical blog covering FreeBSD, Linux, self-hosting, and infrastructure engineering by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn.
Most-linked posts?
- Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-05
- HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with Nginx in a Bastille Jail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-22
- A field manual for Deutsche Bahn2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-14
What Hacker News says?
First, I read (article referred to in blog post): https://blog.hofstede.it/integrating-freebsd-15-with-freeipa... [1] . _Only then_ I read https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/native-freebsd-ker... [2] [1] is more high level. [2] is a bit more detailed.
Comment linking /integrating-freebsd-15-with-freeipa-native-kerberos-and-ldap-authentication/
on “Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM”Submitted Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please as a story · 178 points
HN discussionSubmitted Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A field manual for Deutsche Bahn as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please – Larvitz Blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rice Deserves Better Than a Kochbeutel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with Nginx in a Bastille Jail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Fediverse Comments to Pelican Blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Ansible Plugin Had a Jail Escape: CVE-2026-55074 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Your Own AS: Direct Hetzner Peering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing Lenovo's WWAN Unlock Blob with a 100-Line Bash Script as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with Nginx in a Bastille Jail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reviving Life Is Strange: Before the Storm on Modern Linux with a Glibc Shim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing FreeBSD Jails with Ansible with Jailexec Connection Plugin as a story · 1 points
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