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- limabean Disposable Ubuntu dev VMs on a Mac from layered Lima templates, with pinned toolchains, keys that stay on the host, and an MCP server so Claude can drive them.
- Introducing sdvarlink and vlx: systemd's Varlink APIs from Go and the Terminal systemd is moving its APIs from D-Bus to Varlink. sdvarlink gives Go programs typed, generated clients for them, and vlx is a terminal explorer for finding, reading and calling them.
- vlx A terminal explorer for Varlink services like systemd's io.systemd.* APIs. Read-only by default.
- sdvarlink Typed Go clients for systemd's Varlink APIs, generated from systemd's own interface definitions.
- sdmetrics Connects Go and OpenTelemetry to systemd's metrics framework: publish metrics from a Go daemon the way systemd's own services do, and export every source on a host as OTLP.
- Introducing postmarkd: Sending Mail Should Be One Line postmarkd is a small daemon that runs next to your apps and delivers their mail through Postmark, whether they send over HTTP, SMTP, the sendmail command or a CLI.
- The Basics Of polkit What polkit is, how it decides who can do what on a Linux machine, and how to write a rule that lets a group restart one systemd service without sudo.
- postmarkd A small daemon that runs next to your apps and delivers their mail through Postmark, whether they send over HTTP, SMTP, sendmail or a CLI.
- Running A Go Service With systemd Write a systemd unit for a Go service, tell systemd when it's ready, keep the watchdog fed, reload on SIGHUP and lock it down with sandboxing options.