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  • 6th May 2024

Link shortener, part 2

In the previous article I had some thoughts about link shorteners, and how I might try to implement one as a means to learn some Rust. Since then I've made some progress and pushed it to GitHub

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  • 28th April 2024

Musings on link shorteners, UUIDv7, Base58, …

Yesterday I started thinking about maybe learning some Rust and as part of that I thought perhaps I might try to implement a link shortener

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  • 5th January 2024

Farewell Soekris, old friend

This morning I shut off the Soekris Engineering net4801 that has served as our home firewall / PPP termination box for just over 18½ years

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  • 24th December 2018

The Internet of Unprofitable Things

Gather 'round children. Uncle Andrew wants to tell you a festive story. The NTPmare shortly after Christmas

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  • 4th September 2011

Linux, IPv6, router advertisements and forwarding

How to enable IPv6 routing on Linux while still learning your default route from SLAAC

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  • 23rd May 2006