Creating cross-compiled binaries for Go projects is nothing new, and many projects build binaries for more than just linux/amd64, great. Some even build binaries for openbsd/amd64, even better. At the time of writing there’s no Go 1.5 port for OpenBSD yet, however there are some projects which requires Go >= 1.5. E.g. filebeat. So I made a simple Docker image which provides a cross-compiler for any supported Go target, but defaulting to openbsd/amd64: jasperla/go-cross.

To flex my Coffeescript muscle I wrote a tool called Dockerlinta while ago. At the time there were already several projects with this obvious name, however none actually did The Right Thing. Either they were placeholders/vaporware or they had two checks. Instead of coming up with arbitrary Dos and Donts, Dockerlint follows two documents as set forth by Docker Inc.: Best practices for writing Dockerfiles Dockerfile reference I try to keep up with Docker’s insane release schedule (closing in to releasing 4 new major versions each week?

For a long time I’ve been using the Velox theme for this blog. However recently I found myself wanting to use some of the features the default Casper theme now provides. Aside from the fact a lot of work has gone into this theme over the past two years that makes it look really good. The fact that Casper is developed by the same folks who develop Ghost means that new features the Ghost platform provides are integrated into this theme, such as the You might enjoyat the bottom of this page.

Here’s a quick howto of getting started with the new UEFI bootloader support in OpenBSD -current. This does assume the entire disk will be allocated by OpenBSD. Dual-booting in an UEFI setup requires extra steps which are not covered here. By far the easiest method is to copy the miniroot58.fs to a USB stick and boot from it. This already includes an EFI boot partition so to be sure the BIOS can correctly boot the new bootloader, start by disabling the Legacy boot option in the BIOS.

Before I switched to Sonos as my primary way of listening to audio I’ve used MPD for years. As such I collected a fair amount of audio files that Rdio, Tidal or Spotify claim I’m not allowed to stream in my region. And while Sonos is great, there’s not really a way to control it the way you can control an MPD server for which there are many clients and libraries.