hhvn.uk

Tuesday, Mar 19th 2026

Today I've done a little bit more configuration and set up of the user environment here on the VPS.

I pulled and compiled my slightly modified version of Byron Rakitzis' rc(1).

This required:

• Installing rsync in order to copy the repo onto it
• Installing git so the Makefile can version the binary correctly
• Installing readline as a dependency
• Commenting out half of the readline functions because the OpenBSD readline package is probably a few decades old
• Modified Makefile to manually add recipes for compiling mksignal and mkstatval helper binaries, as OpenBSD make is missing the shorthand that was used
• Adding <sys/wait.h> to all files using WIFSIGNALED()

And now an hour later, I have built a binary. (Well, I did eat dinner at some point in that hour).

TODO: go back and figure out if I can get an up to date readline library installed, or swap to an alternate library.

I then installed the binary, added rc to /etc/shells, and chsh'd it as my main shell.

Tab completion doesn't work correctly, acting like files are directories, so that will need to be addressed. Probably to do with the readline stuff being commented out I would imagine. I plan to add the necessary #ifdef magic and commit the changes so that it can compile flawlessly on either OpenBSD or linux in the future.

I modified my .rcrc to always attach to, or start a tmux(1) session. I also found a tmux_away.pl script for irssi, which I set up.

I've missed being able to remotely access my laptop, so I thought I'd work on networking everything together:

• Installed termux + ssh on my phone
• Copied my phone's ssh pubkeys to the VPS & my laptop
• Installed wireguard on my phone
• Copied the backed up wireguard config and keypair from the old hhvn.uk server to the VPS
• Converted wg-quick(1) format to the much nicer hostname.if(5) format (each peer is contained in one row)
• Set up a new keypair on my phone, and copied it over by ssh'ing into the VPS
• Set up a Termux:Widget to ssh into either hostname straight from the homescreen

The VPS acts as the central hub, at 10.44.0.1, and then the laptop and phone get 10.44.0.2, and 10.44.0.3 respectively. This allows me to connect from any device to any other via the wireguard interface. Success.

Monday, Mar 18th 2026

I took a bit of a break from the online world.

I allowed my domain to lapse, and various other services to cease existence.

And now, I am back.

All that I have set up for now:

• The hhvn.uk domain name
• A vultr VPS running OpenBSD
• tmux+irssi for IRC
• httpd(8) with an index.html
• TLS for hhvn.uk using acme-client(1)

I am comitted to a much simpler technological presence. Everything got a bit too complicated, a bit too fragile, a bit too fancy, and it tired me out. I got too busy to deal with what I had set up, and I simply could not be bothered to tidy it up and simplify, so here I am. Starting fresh.

Some important things to set up:

• opensmtpd(8) email
• wg(4) wireguard VPN

Some not so important things to set up:

• Fix hirc(1) so it doesn't segfault and can be used as my IRC client
• Figure out slowcgi(8) and set up a pastebin
• Set up git-daemon(1) + stagit(1) front end
• geomyidae(8) gopherhole