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date: 2024-07-28
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## July 2024

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  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-28/IMG_0400.JPG" caption="See that blue background wall?" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-28/IMG_0401.JPG" caption="Boxes full of cables and schwag" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-28/IMG_0402.JPG" caption="Lots of random crap lying around" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-28/IMG_0403.JPG" caption="The serverroom is a bit .. messy" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-28/IMG_0396.JPG" caption="A stack of Mikrotik switches" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-28/IMG_0404.JPG" caption="A stack of in-development PDUs" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-28/IMG_0408.JPG" caption="Our backyard chairs beckon for an ap&eacute;ro" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-28/IMG_0409.JPG" caption="I am doing laundry -- of the IPng schwag polos" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG" caption="A bin with 51kg of rubbish from my basement" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG" caption="A fresh set of Kallax shelves from IKEA" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG" caption="The Kallax shelves partially built in my serverroom in the basement" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG" caption="While waiting for the Mac Studio to arrive, writing the blog post on my laptop, but with wine!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG" caption="The serverroom storage space is ready for use!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0423.JPG" caption="Starting the day with a good buzzcut. No more itchy scalp!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0425.JPG" caption="The Mac Studio arrived -- completely undamaged" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0426.JPG" caption="Biking to the datacenter in 31C weather" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0430.JPG" caption="My favorite router in the world, now with +10G to Swisscom CES" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0432.JPG" caption="I'm in front of a datacenter in Zurich!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0437.JPG" caption="Biking back home through the fields - Stromer ST5" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0438.JPG" caption="Another package arrives: 2x100G linecard for ASR9k" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0442.JPG" caption="My trusty Prusa Mk3 printing a batch of cable holders" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0439.JPG" caption="A finished batch of 3D printed cable holders" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0441.JPG" caption="The cable holders doing their best work" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0443.JPG" caption="Prost! Drinking a Mattei with Marina" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0444.JPG" caption="This P-40 Curtiss Warhawk has been in my basement since we moved in - can you believe it?" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0446.JPG" caption="I'm using a paper calendar to scribble my travels; lots of fun places to visit" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0447.JPG" caption="I folded the laundry - a bunch of M, L and XL IPng polos, they are pretty schmick!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0448.JPG" caption="When I clean, I CLEAN! I have sorted a few thousand screws, small, medium, large, cagenuts+bolts, and so on. It was worth it, cathartic!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/guegeli.JPG" caption="These swiss chickens are to be eaten with R&ouml;sti Kroketten, at all times." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0450.JPG" caption="After dinner, Marina and I took a little walk through our neighborhood" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0451.JPG" caption="We saw a kitty, and she was very friendly, we both spent a few minutes hanging out with each other, and then she got bored and took off!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0453.JPG" caption="Cablemanagement! I've rerouted all cabling of Summer and Jessica, and I am pretty happy with the results!" >}}
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### The Before and After of the basement

***Before***

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***After***
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## August 2024

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  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/20240801_111752.jpg" caption="Heli hatchday, Marina gave her a nice flower which she gratefully gobbled up!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0455.JPG" caption="I found 200 or so hard drives in my stash, I removed them all from their caddies" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0457.JPG" caption="Many of the hard drives are from 2004-2008, and only 1TB or 2TB -- I'm going to destroy these" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0458.JPG" caption="But some are 3TB and Tim wanted them, so he will come pick them up in October" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0459.JPG" caption="Lunch: bacon and dippy eggs, and they were yummy" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0460.JPG" caption="After lunch, I finished the stack-o-disks, here there is a bunch of 4TB, 6TB and 3TB disks. And lots and lots of caddies" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0461.JPG" caption="Marina broke a part of the plunger in our bathroom toilet; I tried to epoxy it together again" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0462.JPG" caption="The 90min epoxy is curing (but, it immediately broke again as this plastic is not easy to glue this way)" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0463.JPG" caption="For dinner, I greedily ate a taco-boat (hidden under this enormous mound of minced beef and veg and fake squirty cheese" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0464.JPG" caption="The sunset was really nice, we took a walk to the Floof chickens (who were already sleeping when we got there, unless we accidentally ate them yesterday?)" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0466.JPG" caption="Selfie of Marina and I walking into the sunset. It was a lovely evening!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/IMG_0468.JPG" caption="We watched Stranger Things S04E07 on TV, after which Quinn turned" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/switch.png" caption="I am recovering a Centec S5648X switch which had a read-only filesystem. I reimaged it over TFTP and it came back up cleanly!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-01/workroom.png" caption="Speaking of clean -- just take a look at this gorgeous workroom where you can actually see the floor again!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0474.JPG" caption="Marina and I went out to lunch in Glattzentrum, we had sushi from Yooji" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0475.JPG" caption="I had a bit of sashimi, which was really tasty" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0479.JPG" caption="This drawer is the reason why Marina gave me this closet, some 8 years ago. It is time to fix this bug! While I was here, I weeded through all 8 drawers, sorted the contents in keep versus toss, and ended up with two empty drawers!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/stopper.png" caption="I drew a few magnet holding brackets in Fusion360" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0480.JPG" caption="And then I printed a few magnet holding brackets on the Prusa Mk3" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0481.JPG" caption="Some one hundred fiber optic cables, many different lengths, multimode and singlemode, MPO as well as just normal LC/PC and some older SC/PC and E2000 cables." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0482.JPG" caption="I sorted all of the SMF patch cables in lengths, from 50cm, 1m, 1.5m, 2m, 2.5m and 3m in length" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0483.JPG" caption="While I was working, I also started a yeast culture, lovingly named it Dougie, and intend to bake some bread in the upcoming period!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0484.JPG" caption="With the magnetic drawer stoppers in place, and all the cables sorted by length, I am done with this task." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0487.JPG" caption="Before I went to bed I put in a Dougie-inspired full grain bread loaf, as an experiment. Would it go wild before turning on at 08:35?" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0488.JPG" caption="The answer to the previous picture: yes, it went ape-shit. It bubbled over and grew unboundedly, then fell in on itself while baking. Result: a bunch of flappyfolds." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0489.JPG" caption="Marina and I ate the flappyfolds, which are not bad, and they are shaped like a heart, so what more can we want?" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0490.JPG" caption="After cutting off the flappyfolds, the loaf of break looks kind of sort of like a loaf, right?" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0491.JPG" caption="I am performing a VPP loadtest on a GOWIN N305 server, and fully loaded it is sipping 47.0 Watts, not bad for 2x25G!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0492.JPG" caption="This morning a package arrived - I had ordered a 2x10G + 4x2.5G switch, with one SFP+ and one RJ45 10G port for Jessica. Result: 10G to Amsterdam!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0493.JPG" caption="What is stopping you from coding like this?" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/article.png" caption="I am writing a review of the Gowin N305 machine which I loadtested with DPDK and RDMA. Check ipng.ch for details!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0496.JPG" caption="In the afternoon, we had an Apero of Mattei Gran Reserva, before going out to dinner" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0497.JPG" caption="Quinn also posed for a Mattei-picture.  Kids in this country can drink before they are drafted in the military. I know, right?" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0499.JPG" caption="Amuse Bouche: Pan con Tomate" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0500.JPG" caption="Primi: Seedevil carpaccio with Avocato and Chicorino with mustard" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0501.JPG" caption="Secondi: Cappellacci Caprese with Buffel Mozzarella and sun-dried tomato" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0502.JPG" caption="Mains: Grilled Beef filet on a bed of Spinnach with pistaccio, Chianti-reduction and Taleggio cheese on young potatoes" >}} 
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0503.JPG" caption="Dolce: Crema Catalana and Panna Cotta with Mango and berries" >}}

  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0504.JPG" caption="The Gowin 19 inch rack mountable server has 2x 2.5G, 3x 1G and 2x 25G as well as RJ45 serial. It is a pretty cool machine!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0505.JPG" caption="The inside of the Gowin server is a small but very modern board, using an Intel i3-N305 with 32GB of LPDDR5 and a bunch of IO on board." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0512.JPG" caption="The case is passively cooled, with a large heatsink over the CPU, its ribs are flush with the top of the case. I'm not sure how the dissipation is with a rack full of these ..." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0513.JPG" caption="They added an OCP 2.0 breakout which can house any number of 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 25G network cards. Pictured here is the Mellanox ConnectX-5 with 2x25G." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0517.JPG" caption="Brunch at Bagle Boys - our three bagles posed for a picture before being inhaled :)" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0521.JPG" caption="Here is the kneeded dough ready for its first task. Like Alexander Hamilton, it will rise up!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0522.JPG" caption="The formed boules with sesame seeds, ready for their second rise." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0523.JPG" caption="The baked hamburger buns, golden brown but not crispy -- Marina demands soft buns!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0524.JPG" caption="Closeup of a hamburger bun with sesame seeds, cut in half to show the breadcrum" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0525.JPG" caption="My burger with salad, cheese, onions and pickles. It was godly." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/website.png" caption="A screenshot of the work-in-progress IPng.ch website in Hugo. It's looking really good!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0528.JPG" caption="I'm making pins for the Frys-IX barbecue.  Sssssht, don't tell anyone!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0530.JPG" caption="I made a lovely turkey sandwich for lunch with the leftover hamburger buns from yesterday" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0533.JPG" caption="We went to Aligro for 'bulk' shopping, and we got a lot of food!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0534.JPG" caption="Got meat? We vacuum-sealed all twelve (!) kilos of it." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0535.JPG" caption="With all of that meat frozen, we took to a vegan dinner: Crispy tofu, glass noodles, and lots of veggies." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0537.JPG" caption="The evening walk was very relaxing today, although my left ankle hurts a little bit." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0538.JPG" caption="The sunset over the fields in our village.  I love Switzerland!!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0539.JPG" caption="I made a big pot of leek soup - we'll eat this with veal dumplings and stilton cheese - you'll see!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0548.JPG" caption="The mailman came, and delivered a Rode mic arm. It's really fancy, with springs and wire guides. But my mic doesn't ... fit" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/micbracket.png" caption="Off I go, in Fusion360 to design a mic bracket that can clamp on the mic and then has a 3/8 inch screw socket for the mic arm to grip." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0549.JPG" caption="My first print was not exactly right - there's a bit of missing clearance so I redraw and print a second one (which is spot on)" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0550.JPG" caption="We have an apero in the back yard with gin and tonic, kalamata olives and carrots with humus. It was delish!" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0551.JPG" caption="After dinner, Marina and I watch Ariel (the 2023 version) - I saw it once on a plane but Marina hasn't seen it yet" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0552.JPG" caption="The micstand and 3D Printed bracket are done. It sounds awesome, even if the mic is under the field of view of the camera :)" >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0553.JPG" caption="Another angle of the micstand. I like that it can be under the camera's view this way, with really good sound." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0555.JPG" caption="Marina has printed a bunch of IPng logos on a template with circles, 2 inches wide. I'll cut in total 120 of these." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-06/IMG_0556.JPG" caption="The 2'' disks are quickly cut. Tomorrow, they will become pins and fridge magnets!" >}}


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