Quantum

In 2023, I was in need of a new laptop that should hopefully last me for a while.

I can’t believe it’s been a few years since I built the French Republican Calendar web application and explained how it works in a blog post, which is really part of the series on the art of time-keeping.

One day, during the winter break away from work, I was reminded of this ancient program I built in high school—a Blue Screen of Death (henceforth BSoD) simulator.

For the past three years, I’ve been writing year-end reviews to look back upon the year that had gone by and reflect on what had happened.

Last time, I covered the process of announcing your very first route to the Internet via BGP, but that’s only the beginning.

A while back, I wrote about what I wish I knew when I got my ASN, which has helped many embark upon the epic quest of hobby networking.

Years ago, before I tried to build my own autonomous system and run BGP, I had a few servers in different locations,1 and I wanted them to be able to talk to each other over some sort of encrypted VPN, allowing plaintext protocols to be run between locati…

Last time, we set up a global anycast PowerDNS cluster with geolocation and health checks.

As I’ve written about before, this blog has multiple geographically distributed backend servers serving the content, with my anycast PowerDNS cluster selecting the geographically closest backend server that’s up and returning it to the user.

Since the inception of solid-state drives (SSDs), there has been a choice to make—either use SSDs for vastly superior speeds, especially with non-sequential read and writes (“random I/O”), or use legacy spinning rust hard disk drives (HDDs) for cheaper st…