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+---
+title: 'Saturday: Celebrating my first week'
+date: 2024-08-03T22:21:19+02:00
+Tags: []
+Categories: []
+draft: false
+---
+
+# Morning
+
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/day6/method.png" alt="Credit: METHOD // DRUM & BASS MIXES, YouTube" >}}
+
+Before I went to bed yesterday, which according to the picture I took at 01:26am, I decided to
+perform an experiment. I took a Dougie-inspired whole wheat dough, which had gone through its first
+rise, and I flattened it and put it in a cake tray, kind of expecting it to maybe, maybe not,
+survive until 8:35am and then bake into a nice loaf of bread.  Then, I woke up at 08:45 or so to the
+smell of a gorgeous fresly baking bread. I cannot overstate how much I like the smell of fresh
+bread. I excitedly pranced downstairs to peek into the oven, just to see that there were some
+Terryfolds or Foldyflaps on the sides of the baking tray, as Dougie had been so excited, that it
+overgrew the tray, bubbled onto the oven dish, and then proceeded to bake into .. a loaf of sorts?
+Good news: the taste was pretty great. Bad news: don't use baking trays as it doesn't allow for the
+moisture to escape. So the inside was a bit mushy -- not to worry, I'll just cut off the
+Flappyfolds, and eat them! And what remained, in a parallel universe could pass as a loaf of bread,
+which I briefly tossed back into the oven for a second bake. It turned out fine, but I would
+consider the experiment a resounding failure.
+
+The mailman came, with another package, for me. Jessica (the Mac Studio) has a 10G network port, but
+I've never (not once, in my life!) used a 10G RJ45 connection. For me, as can be clearly seen in my
+post from yesterday, everything is either singlemode fiber, or DAC cables. When I ordered the Mac, I
+also ordered a 10G switch which has 4x 2.5G, 1x 10G SFP+ (to connect to AS8298's core switch in my
+basement), and 1x 10G RJ45, which will now happily be used by Jessica.
+
+
+# Afternoon
+
+After our Flappyfold bread (which I ate with some salami, some smoked salmon and some sliced
+turkey), I go downstairs to install the switch. And it pays dividends -- the other day I showed an
+`iperf3` from Amsterdam to my place in Br&uuml;ttisellen, and that now got upgraded to line rate:
+
+```
+jessica:Pictures pim$ iperf3 -c hvn0.nlams3.net.ipng.ch -P 10
+Connecting to host hvn0.nlams3.net.ipng.ch, port 5201
+[  7] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49522 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[  9] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49523 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[ 11] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49524 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[ 13] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49525 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[ 15] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49526 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[ 17] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49527 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[ 19] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49528 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[ 21] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49529 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[ 23] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49530 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+[ 25] local 2001:678:d78:50b::32 port 49531 connected to 2001:678:d78:506::2 port 5201
+...
+
+[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
+[SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec  10.7 GBytes  9.21 Gbits/sec                  sender
+[SUM]   0.00-10.03  sec  10.7 GBytes  9.18 Gbits/sec                  receiver
+```
+
+Slick! What stops you from coding like this?
+
+I spend the afternoon playing with a Gowin server
+[[ref](https://www.gowinfanless.com/products/network-device/1u-2u-server/gw-bs-1ur2-25g)], some 19"
+rack mountable energy efficient Intel i3-N305 (Alder Lake) machine which has 2x25G network cards on
+board. I will write more about them on the [[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/)] blog later. It's
+a pretty cool machine, which packs a punch when used as s low power VPP router.
+
+While the loadtets run, I twiddle my thumbs a little bit. I somehow think of my parents and the
+video call we had the other day -- they said my audio was a bit soft, which is surprising because I
+have fancy R&oslash;de studio mic. It turns out, Jessica has the gain turned all the way down, and
+when I turn it up, yes my voice becomes very audible, but there's also a lot of background noise. So
+off I go, to get a microphone boom, like all the YouTubers (and half of my cow-okers) have. I get
+one from R&oslash;de as well, and while I'm browsing I also decide to splurge and buy a Silhouette
+Cameo v5. I'm such a consumer.
+
+{{< image frame="false" width="5em" float="left" src="/img/init/sidequest.png" alt="The SideQuest logo" >}}
+
+Actually, the loadtest consumes most of the day. And I didn't even clean anything up today. I'm very
+proud of myself. As a small (with which I mean a 15 minute tiny) sidequest, I also write a little
+python script that scans the T-Rex loadtest JSON output files and prints a markdown table based on
+what it finds. That's going to save me from a few dozen typos in the future, so 👍 to me.
+
+# Evening
+
+I have booked us a last-day-of-vacation dinner reservation at a local italian place called _Il Faro_
+in D&uuml;bendorf. They have a pizzaria and a more upscale dining room downstairs called _Il Grotto_
+(the Cavern). Quinn, Marina and I first fill up on a _Mattei Gran Reserva_ at home, then make our
+way to the restaurant where we're treated to a four course meal:
+
+* **Amuse Bouche**: Pan con Tomate
+* **Primi**: Seedevil carpaccio with Avocato and Chicorino with mustard
+* **Secondi**: Cappellacci Caprese with Buffel Mozzarella and sun-dried tomato
+* **Mains**: Grilled Beef filet on a bed of Spinnach with pistaccio, Chianti-reduction and Taleggio cheese on young potatoes
+* **Dolce**: Crema Catalana and Panna Cotta with Mango and berries
+
+During this mean I get tortured to no end about my Flappyfold-bread. Tomorrow we're going to eat
+hamburgers and Marina has commissioned me to bake buns for them - of course there is much punning
+and jabbing and teasing about how I'm going to fuck up the buns tomorrow. I'll show them (and you),
+though!
+
+After dinner we decided _not_ to watch the last episode of the Stranger Things Season4, mostly
+because it's a 2h22m affair, and Quinn and Marina and I all aren't going to make it that long.
+Instead, Marina and I watch the last two (shorter!) episodes of _Liebes Kind_, where we see how the
+whole story falls into place. I think _Forbes_ was wrong -- it's a good story and well captured.
+
+At 22:45 I go down to my lair and write the blogpost.  I spend a little bit of time organizing a
+group-buy for a bunch of Celestica DX010 switches on the STH forum. There's a guy who is buying
+these 32x100G ONIE switches that run SONiC for EUR 210,- a piece (!!). Sandro and I decided each to
+buy three, and now the matter is how to ship them economically from Darmstadt (Germany) to
+Switzerland. We work things out, including a way to not have to pay German VAT (at 19%) but instead
+settle for the Swiss VAT (8.1%) - Yaay us.
+
+Tomorrow I'll finish the IPng.ch article about the Gowin 1U machine, and make the best hamburger
+buns my family has ever seen. Today marks the first week of my _sabbatical_. I'm ready to enjoy a
+few more weeks of this!
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< 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-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}
+

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   {{< 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-category >}}
 
 {{< gallery-modal >}}