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Terminfo for ghostty on FreeBSD (2025-07-29):
The way shown in https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo does not work
[read more]Rescaling FreeBSD on VPS (2025-07-28):
I saw today that the VPS provider that I use has updated their available plans and I could 'rescale' my current setup to benefit from one more core, more RAM and more disk spacae (at the same cost). So why not?!
For CPU and RAM it only required clicking YES in the web interface, but for the increase in disk space I had to make my system aware of that change:
[read more]Cyclic workflows in snakemake (2025-07-15):
When we integrate our climate models we don't run the whole period in one go but rather run in smaller chunks of e.g. one month. This makes sure that we can fit the job into a slurm allocation and that in case of crashes, we can recover by starting again from the beginning of the chunk.
However, this is not trivial to do with my preferred workflow manager, snakemake, because it operates in the space of files and assumes that each rule is defined in terms of data, its input and output.
Here I describe a way to do it.
[read more]Installing basic tools on HPC with ansible (2023-11-27):
For my daily work I rely on some tools being available on the machines that I use. They are usually not installed on HPCs, so I like to have a simple automated way to install them with ansible.
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