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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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#recipe Articles

Rice Deserves Better Than a Kochbeutel

Rice is not the anonymous white ballast next to the actual food. Jasmine, basmati, brown rice, parboiled rice, and the great Italian risotto varieties all behave differently, and the way you cook them matters just as much. A short argument against the Kochbeutel, followed by the rice-cooker method that has served me best.

chana_masala.sh: A Recipe as a Shell Script

Some years ago a chana masala arrived in a HelloFresh box and never left the household again. It has since been refactored, hardened, and put under version control. Here is the current release: a chickpea curry for hungry IT people, documented the only way I know how - as a bash script with a proper runbook attached.