Welcome to Larvitz Blog! I’m Christian, a Senior Consultant by day and FreeBSD enthusiast by night, with over 20 years in enterprise IT. Here I write about FreeBSD jails, PF firewalling, self-hosting, Linux system administration, and anything that’s cleanly engineered. Most articles are hands-on guides born from running my own infrastructure, from dual-stack networking and Ansible automation to hosting a Mastodon instance on FreeBSD.

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#git Articles

Thu 05 November 2026
FreeBSD

Hardware Keys Without GnuPG: The Rust OpenPGP Card Stack, Now in FreeBSD Ports

Three small Rust tools from the OpenPGP Card project replace the GnuPG stack for my everyday hardware key work: oct to manage OpenPGP cards and Nitrokeys, oct-git to sign Git commits, and openpgp-card-ssh-agent as a hardware-backed SSH agent. I ported all three to FreeBSD and they are now in the ports tree. This article explains what each tool does, how they share PIN handling, and how I set them up on Fedora and on my FreeBSD T480.

Wed 12 August 2026
Linux

Chezmoi and Git: Dotfiles Without Pretending Every Machine Is the Same

A Git repository is a good place for configuration files, but it does not know where they belong, which permissions they need, or why a work laptop and a home server should differ. Chezmoi adds that missing layer. This is how I use both tools to manage fish, Git, Neovim, GnuPG, OpenSSH and Atuin, including the recovery command for the inevitable day I edit a live file directly.