2025–W04 #
I've written more Ansible this week than is good for me (the correct amount is zero). Man, I wish there were better tools in this space, but Docker (and later Kubernetes) seem to have killed the whole "machine state management" space.
Colocataires has its first BGP session up, although all of its prefixes are being filtered. I've re-learned about RPSL. There's a lot of things you do exactly once when creating a network and then don't touch for years so it's easy to forget them.
I'm also doing some CSS -- it's good-ish now. For both a redevelopment of insom.me.uk and one for Colocataires. Flex + Grid let you do a lot of stuff that has been hard ever since table tags were shunned.
Fixed the IPv6 in my house so I can manually enable it on some hosts without giving my whole house global v6 addresses. It turns out that you get a lot of CAPTCHAs (and your Netflix changes regions) when using Hurricane Electric tunnels. I hate that v6 in Canada is so stalled.
I bought 32GiB of RAM for my desktop for $60 -- such a criminally small amount of money. I'm still used to the modern laptop, where you just get whatever RAM came with it soldered on. Kind of a mystery that this otherwise quite good (NVMe disk, 12th-gen i5) computer came with only one 16GiB stick installed, now that I think of it.
Set up LACP on my local switches, just for the experience. A piece of layer 2 tech that I never had reason to personally play with. Shopify used bond devices on nodes, but for HA (as far as I could see) and not for increased bandwidth. Had to use layer3+4 as my load balancing algorithm to see real improvements though -- it's tough when you're using MAC addresses (the default) because you're not going to have an even distribution of nodes (probably) for bench-marking. And then; how can you know it worked?
Next up: ECMP.