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A collection of 3 droppings

2025 roundup

The last time I felt compelled to publish a reflection on my year was in 2015 here. It was a story of misplaced trust, financial ruin, a career that had bottomed out, and the work of learning to trust myself again. It also signaled the beginning of a new chapter

The journey to a 10GbE home network

My first memorable experience with a well-designed and functional network was in 2009 at the African University of Science and Technology (Abuja). My friend, @bigbrovar, designed and built the network, and was its sole administrator. Speaking of the network being very functional, I am referring to the breadth of services

Leveraging spare computing power for science

My earliest participation in distributed computing systems was installing SETI@home on my computer in the early 2000s. Short for “search for extraterrestrial intelligence”, SETI@home at the time was essentially a screensaver that leveraged idle computing power to analyze data captured from the Arecibo Telescope to detect signs of