Time for a Reacher update. The last couple of months I deliberately took a step back. Maintenance mode, less pushing. That was intentional. With the new year, it’s time to move forward again. Since September I’ve gained some weight. Part of that is muscle. Part of it is the fluffy stuff I don’t want, and…
The Obligatory Autistic Christmas
Christmas is often described as the nicest time of the year. For me, it isn’t. This piece explores how obligation, tradition, and neurodivergent nervous systems can turn togetherness into something draining rather than connecting.
Proxmox software update
And a sooner-than-expected software update, or rather; a VM update. Today I migrated the three remaining VMs from my office node to my main Proxmox host at home. All three VMs belong together: a PostgreSQL database, a Python development machine, and an Nginx reverse proxy. As I had never migrated VMs before, it sounded like…
And another Proxmox update!
It is now almost a year ago that I started my Proxmox journey. Almost exactly a year ago Microsoft decided to push the infamous Windows 11 update and subsequently wrecking my homeserver in the process. And right now, I have a few more interesting things to talk about. Hardware “Node 3” is almost finished. I…
I accidentally wrote a tool that can clean up years of technical debt
Over the past weeks, I ran into something small but surprisingly persistent: Git submodules that nobody uses anymore, but are still quietly hiding in the codebase. Submodules that: were added years ago, are no longer referenced anywhere, still appear in .gitmodules, confuse developers and clutter builds, and sometimes even pose an attack surface. I looked…
Throwback server rack flitspaal.nu ( 2002 )
In case you didn’t know:I’m the godfather of flitspaal.nu — and later flitspaal.nl. It was a Dutch-only website listing all fixed speed cameras in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The site ran from the early 2000s until 2012, long before smartphones, apps or live navigation alerts were common. This is a picture of the first…
The Art of De-Optimization: WhatsApp’s Bold New Direction
Because Who Needs Efficiency Anyway? The WhatsApp Windows application is going to be completely revamped soon. The native app is going to be replaced by a version based upon WebView2. source: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/241382/whatsapp-vernieuwt-app-voor-windows-gebruikt-tot-tien-keer-meer-geheugen.html That sounds rather uninteresting at first, but there’s a large but — actually, several. The WebView2 application is insanely bad in resource usage,…
Blast from the past: Planetarion!
Yes — Planetarion ( planetarion.com ) A text-based multiplayer strategy game that started somewhere around the year 2000. And of course, being the proper geek that I am, I played it. Planetarion still exists today. If you’ve never tried it, go ahead — it’s still running, somehow! The first round I played was Round 3,…
The lost art of looking up
We almost all stopped looking up at the skies and instead are now looking down at our little phone screens. Somewhere along the way, the infinite got traded for the immediate. Some things to wonder about: Did you know that our Sun has been fusing 600 million tons of hydrogen every second for more than…
Proxmox update: 10Gbe network. CHECK
Nerd alert! The three Intel X710 10Gbe network cards are in! Thank you Ebay! ( in earnest this time! 🙂 Port 1 will be used for the Ceph sync for the VM’s. Port 2 will be used for data towards my network. More soon! Brain out!