by Alexander Sharp | Jun 30, 2022
I originally purchased my Raspberry Pi to run Pi-Hole, which functions as a whole-house ad-blocker. Technically, Pi-Hole is just a script that installs and configures dnsmasq and loads a bunch of domains to block at the DNS level. When a website tries to load...
by Alexander Sharp | May 25, 2022
Raspberry Pi + FreeBSD Series This series of guides about creating a home server with Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD is written by a novice for novices. If you’re pretty experienced with FreeBSD and are just looking for a specific answer to a question, unfortunately...
by Alexander Sharp | May 25, 2022
Continuing my series on creating a Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD for a small home server, I’ve decided to take the plunge and utilize jails managed by Bastille. Initially, I wasn’t going to go this route because the Pi isn’t going to do all that much,...
by Alexander Sharp | Apr 9, 2022
Verbose (article contains many explanations and tangential information) Succinct In this tutorial I explain how to make a home NAS using a Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD, and a couple of 2.5″ SSDs. As the type of nerd who writes essays and publishes them on the internet,...
