On zram swap and zswap
I recently converted all my machines from zram swap to zswap . In this post I go over the differences between the two and why zswap is almost certainly better for any general use-case.
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What the hell is a decibel?
Decibels come up often in digital audio and I’ve always found them to be confusing. In this post, I try to explain what decibels are and more importantly, how they’re used in practice.
A load balancer on every host
I’ve started running HAProxy on every machine in my fleet. This neatly solves the problem of connecting to services in my Kubernetes cluster, as well as making it possible to have nice URLs for local services running on weird ports.
Building the grandma videoconf
Grandma wants to talk to her grandkids and also see them. The problem is that grandma cannot interact with modern technology at all. No keyboard, no mouse, no touchscreen—the solution has to be fully automated. Let’s build this.
Combining sine waves
In the first post in this series , we generated sine waves. In this post, we combine sine waves together to explore harmonics, dissonance, and the 12 tone system used in Western music .