Category: Year Review
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2025: Year in Review
(Read more...)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. As yet another year has gone by, it is time to continue the tradition.
Like last year, I’ll divide this into several areas, as opposed to grouping by month as I had done in the years before:
- BGP and operating my own autonomous system;
- My homebrew CDN for this blog;
- My home server;
- My ADS-B feeder;
- My coding projects;
- My mechanical keyboard;
- My travel router project; and
- My music hobby.
Without further ado, let’s begin.
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2024: Year in Review
(Read more...)For the past two years, I’ve been writing year-end reviews to look back upon the year that had gone by and reflect on what had happened. I thought I might as well continue the tradition this year.
However, I’ll try a new format—instead of grouping by month, I’d group it by area. I’ll focus on the following areas:
- BGP and operating my own autonomous system;
- My homebrew CDN for this blog;
- My home server;
- My new mechanical keyboard;
- My travel router project; and
- My music hobby.
Without further ado, let’s begin.
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2023: Year in Review
(Read more...)Last year, I started writing year-end reviews to look back upon the past year and reflect on what has happened. I thought I might as well continue to do the same this year.
In January, I decided to finally create that stratum 1 NTP server that I had wanted ever since I heard about people doing it with Raspberry Pis. Instead of using Pis though, I ended up doing the ancient (but superior) approach of using a serial port. Along the way, I ran into various issues, but that tale is told in its own blog post.
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2022: Year in Review
(Read more...)2022 was certainly an interesting year. While the world events were rather depressing, we are not here to talk about them. Instead, let us explore what I did this year—if just to help me remember it years down the line.
In January, I ended up messing around with my domains. I wrote about this in a previous blog post, but here’s a summary: To improve email delivery, I moved this website from
quantum2.xyztoquantum5.ca. Furthermore, I sawqt.axwas open for registration, and registered it to use as my URL shortener. While switching toquantum5.cawas a relatively straightforward procedure, registeringqt.axat a rather steep price of €32/year would bring about a rather interesting sequence of events, as we shall see later.I also talked earlier about my globally distributed backend, which in January consisted of three nodes: Montréal, Amsterdam, and Sydney. By the end of the year, this would change significantly.
In February, I implemented my own version of the French Republican Calendar for fun, which spawned a whole series of posts on the subject. At the end of the month, AMD dropped the retail price of the Ryzen 9 5950X, at which point I impulsively bought one to replace my 3900X, which would have some interesting consequences.