A little over a week ago, I hinted at writing an article on my journey to take a couple of web services out of Azure Functions and to self-host them on FreeBSD. Well, here it is! Enjoy.
jmmv.dev/2025/12/from...
The recording of my EndBASIC talk at BSDCan 2025 is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZFY... — Watch to learn about the inner makings of the "EndBASIC OS" RPI disk image. Thanks to the A/V team for getting it out!
It was at the bottom of the thread… because I only wrote the article after I saw so much interest in the original post.
Or you can just head to the full article, which is more elaborate and less click-bait-y than my original X thread: jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast...
Vaya, si, lo fue! Gracias! Pero Debian celebra cumpleaños de FreeBSD? 😂
Thanks! And nope. Blaze did, but Bazel's RE client does not have that feature. "Shouldn't be too hard to implement" conceptually, but knowing the RE client code, I think it is probably non-trivial...
Happy Friday! The instructions to build your very own EndBASIC microcomputer (aka the EndBOX), including links to components AND the very first public disk images 😱, are now available. Have fun! www.endbasic.dev/2025/07/endb...
TOC for the new EndBOX page that will show up in the EndBASIC website.
Instructions for the DIY kit ready and the very first release builds are in the oven. Interested in early, privileged access? coff.ee/jmmv !
Work on the EndBOX continues (and you've seen some of it via tweets here), so... here is the first weekly progress report! buymeacoffee.com/jmmv/weekly-...
TIL about Tildes. Do any of you have an invite? I see the EndBOX has been shared there and I ought to engage!
My talk about the OS powering the EndBOX is coming quick next week, so I had to rush getting this out so... I guess it's official now? www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unve... Join me in this craziness and let's make it happen!
This shall be the next piece of hardware to add support for!
But… after the conference, and finishing the plan on what to actually do about producing this box “for real”.
Time to resurface this! I found a draft update I prepared on Nov 8th to fix the text around username mapping and I published it now. I could not publish it back then because the CDN involved was being dumb and silently banned my updates due to a "dangerous substring".
Ooooh look! Someone is featuring EndBASIC in their Game Development summer course! moosadee.gitlab.io/courses/camp...
And here it is in its “true” form! Now, if I got Bluetooth working and easily configurable via CONFIG.BAS, I could remove an extra cable.
After ALL morning of fighting DTBs, I finally got the WiFi on the Pi Zero 2 W to work on NetBSD. Perfect for showtime at BSDCan.
Screenshot of the "EndBASIC: My forever project" draft slide.
The EndBASIC dev kit presentation for BSDCan ain't gonna write itself. Two weeks to go!
I've been tinkering with 3D printing as a complete beginner for the last two weeks as you may have seen around here, so I wrote a thing. jmmv.dev/2025/05/begi...
Let’s play snake? Is it too slow? Too fast? No problem, we can tweak it!
I’m new to this stuff 😅 I tried adding a brim this time and it didn’t help, but I just watched a video that gave me various other ideas to fix it!
It’s the weekend again so it’s time to continue iterating! Looking better now, I think? ☺️
… but the base warped again and I need to do some internal tweaks. Each iteration takes about 12 hours to print which doesn’t make it easy…
Have you played VVVVVV? Did you know that its soundtrack is called PPPPPP? And... did you know that there is a metal remix called MMMMMM? I did not know the later and discovered it via the orange site! Amazing stuff. open.spotify.com/album/67mFUe...
And now, with power!
Not too bad for a first attempt though! All inner supports broke, but superglue to the rescue.
Second attempt seems better, but I still don’t know if the box works. Printed by a friend (hi Daniel!).
First printing attempt: failed. One piece was above the work plane. So much laughing when I saw this…
EndBASIC dev kit finally shaping up—literally. But this is my first 3D design+print, so bear with me...
The SDL2-compat library in F42 (an SDL2 API shim on top of SDL3) isn't as "compat" as one would want, so I just wasted 2 hours figuring out why the EndBASIC console regression tests started failing 😒
And now I have a little blog post for you to tell the short story of this new feature: www.endbasic.dev/2025/05/new-...
I hadn't booted Fedora on my laptop for a few months now. I did last week, upgraded to 42 KDE Plasma, and OH WOW. I forgot how fast everything feels compared to Win 11. And Fedora 42 works _really_ well, especially now that the KDE spin is official.
