Nice to meet you! At Conrad Research, we are an architect-led research boutique terraforming the digital terrain of architecture and real estate.
Our mission is to craft an intelligent drafting layer that understands context, space, and detail so the repetitive work disappears and creativity finally gets room to breathe. We are hard at work bringing this to life and cannot wait to show you what's next!
— Austen Conrad, Founder, AIA, NCARB, NCIDQ
A running journal of insights, breakthroughs, and early looks at the technology we are building as we terraform architecture.
FreeBSD’s native support for ZFS snapshots and jails provides a powerful foundation for immutable deployments. By creating a new jail from a ZFS snapshot for every release, we get instant roll‑backs, zero‑downtime upgrades, and a clean, reproducible environment. This article walks through the (very opinionated) flow that we use. From jails setup through running Caddy as a health‑checked reverse proxy in front of the jails.
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At Conrad Research we LOVE Temporal. It gives us a high velocity in development because our code doesn't have to worry as much about implementing retry logic. We are in the process of moving to a self-hosted Temporal server and as such we're starting with the baby step of setting up a Temporal CLI dev server to run on our FeeBSD deployment platform.
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At Conrad Research, we love Turso, Go, and FreeBSD. This guide walks you through building and installing the Turso Go client on FreeBSD, so that you can start writing Go applications that connect to Turso from your FreeBSD server.
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Sometimes in life you stumble upon unexpected joy :) For me, it was recently Zed. After a couple of weeks, I was completely sold on Zed as my new IDE. Then one morning I was thinking about how insanely fast Groq’s inference is and it dawned on me: what if I could use Groq as my inference backend in Zed?
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At Conrad Research, we deploy on FreeBSD and use Infisical as a security store. At the time of this article, there isn't a FreeBSD port available for Infisical. So this guide will walk you through how to install Infisical CLI on FreeBSD.
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