I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.

Backblaze’s Java-based Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding library is great tech, but comparatively slow. Let’s add some optimized Go, and get a whopping speedup.

The top hit on Google on how to install GlusterFS on Alpine Linux is an AI fiction. I did the only reasonable thing.

I asked perplexity.ai to help me out with a short story about junixsocket. I didn’t expect the story to go that way.

This little ARM64 single-board computer dragged me into the world of device trees, voltage regulators, and one of the worst Heisenbugs I encountered so far.