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Reading

I am currently reading “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown. Infact, I am reading it for the second time after reading it several years ago. It’s a thrilling novel which involves a lot of ancient mysteries and how our true scientific intellect is lost in the past. It’s a fiction novel but a lot of the details mentioned in it are real. The twists and turns are truly mind boggling (100 pages read so far).

What am I doing?

I have been programming in Go consistently along with learning and deploying k8s cluster on a small hobby project. Mostly, I am doing a major home lab upgrade these days. I bought a raspberry pi for installing openwrt which will replace my stock router. Also, I am creating terraform, ansible, etc scripts for a better reproducibilty of my whole infrastructure. I might try NixOS in the future as it is quite well known for that.

I have created a list of “from scratch” projects that I want to build. Here’s a rough list of projects I am looking to implement:

• text editor
• JSON and XML parser
• full fledged load balancer
• a cryptographic protocol (RSA, elliptic curve, etc)
• markdown engine
• reverse proxy server such as nginx or caddy
• containers from scratch
• unix and linux utilities
• an IaaC like ansible
• a minimal rsync
• and a lot more …

Planning to do

I am planning to write more blog posts about *nix filesystems, systemd, distributed systems, linux security as well as container security and a lot of other things.

I also want to explore OpenBSD and FreeBSD and try to run some applications on it.