# Larvitz Blog

> Technical blog covering FreeBSD, Linux, self-hosting, and infrastructure engineering.

## About

Larvitz Blog is written by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn, a Senior Consultant with over 20 years in enterprise IT. Articles are hands-on guides born from running real infrastructure — from FreeBSD jail architectures and PF firewalling to self-hosted email, Mastodon, and container deployment with Podman.

## Topics

- FreeBSD system administration (jails, BastilleBSD, VNET, ZFS)
- PF firewall configuration and network security
- Self-hosting (email, Mastodon, CryptPad, DNS, FreeIPA)
- Container deployment (Podman, Quadlets)
- Linux system administration (SELinux, Ansible, ostree/Universal Blue)
- Network infrastructure (BGP, GeoIP firewalling, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6)

## Contact

- Website: https://hofstede.it
- Blog: https://blog.hofstede.it
- Fediverse: https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz
- GitHub: https://github.com/chofstede