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Hello! 👋 I’m Michael “Themimitoof”, software engineer based in Paris, France 🇫🇷. I’m working as an API/Backend developer & Infrastructure Platform Engineer for a startup specialized on typography. Previously, I was working as API/Backend developer for the French registrar Gandi.net. On my free time, I do film and digital photography, make things in Go or in Python and I also play…
In July 2019, an AS I manage was born. As long as I worked on the deployment of the network and its services, I tried many ways to generate the IPv6 addresses for each services. SLAAC, simple IPv6 addresses, based on the hostname and random ones. SLAAC addresses are OK but requires using EUI-64 to get a stable IPv6 address and it has the drawback of exposing the MAC address and potentially permits…
I manage a Vultr VM that host few anycast services for an Autonomous System that I manage. When I tried to sys-upgrade the VM to the freshly 7.1 release of OpenBSD, I loosed my BGP session and the access to the VM via the IPv6 address that Vultr expose to me in the Vultr console and via the API. During the boot, I discovered some weird messages that I never saw before:
In December 2019, a few days before the big public transport strike that impacted all French citizens (and unconsciously gave us a first taste of how to work remotely at home and prepare us for what we will experience a few months later with the first lockdown), I got my first own interchangeable lens hybrid camera, a Sony A6400. To take control of my new toy, during the first months, I took a lot…
Since the release of the new Cloud platform of Gandi.net based on Openstack called GandiCloud VPS, I tried to convince the product owner to support more Linux distributions and other OSes like OpenBSD on the platform. For the moment, no plans for OpenBSD in a very near future but dev teams are working on implementing new features to complete the new platform. Fair enough. Since the rescue mode and…
Hello there! 👋 Welcome to this new blog/website and this time in English! Since 2015 and even before, I always managed a blog in French. Today, I wanted to target a wider audience, more international to share my projects, my creations and my discoveries. I plan with this blog to share English version of posts that I will publish in the future in my french blog and content not intended to be in my…