We're going ahead with taking our a rack and some transit at $SIDE_HUSTLE and so I bought some hardware.
Yeah, I literally bought an HP ProCurve 2810-24G -- the exact switch I used at iWeb. If it works, why change? (Well, warranties and firmware support, I suppose!). I have some SMF and some -LX optics on the way, too. Let's do this.
The "production" advertisement of AS401604 is still running via Free Range Routing even though I've switched my personal things to use BIRD. I did a quick test yesterday of iBGP peering the FRR instance to a BIRD instance over a multihop connection and it worked okay and BIRD used much less RAM. I don't need to be too conservative with RAM just to take a one or two "full feed" routing tables on modern hardware, but it's always nice to know you're not going to need gigabytes of RAM for the equivalent of soft-reconfiguration.
Spoke to some people about a thing. That's kind of exciting. Yes. It's vague.
I made dice out of resin and also turned some cast resin on the lathe. I think there's something here about making custom castings and machining them down to the finish and size that I want. I wonder what's in the middle-ground between "3D printing" and "machining" that would benefit from this? Probably needs to be something worth mass-producing to be worth it?
I also spoke to some other people about ENTERPRISE SALES and that's less exciting but it's a weird and silly world. "We charge X", "Well, your competitor would just charge me Y", "We charge Y, now". 🤷 All part of "the game", I suppose.
I've procrastinated on Rails a bit, gotta get back to that.
Bought rueful.ca -- I plan to start transitioning away from insom.me.uk to the new domain, reflecting that my life really is all in Canada now. I'll still keep it, I've had that domain since 2002, but it probably shouldn't be my main Internet identity.