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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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#wordcraft Articles

ArtCraft: Desktop Apps Built with AI, Useful Results, and Open Questions

ArtCraft is attempting to rebuild familiar creative and office applications in Rust with AI coding agents. PhotoCraft worked for my thumbnails, the applications started quickly, and native FreeBSD builds exist. Those are interesting observations, but they do not establish equivalence with Photoshop or Office. A look at the project, its agent-friendly architecture, and the questions that remain about correctness, maintenance and its future.