Recent
Out of my cave, lots of updates
·6280 words·30 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
OpenBSD
OpenSMTPD
Plakar
Backups
TL;DR: I have been silent for a while due to personal matters but I did a ton of stuff on OpenSMTPD, plakar and a handful of other projects.
2023, a retrospective.
·965 words·5 mins
Gilles Chehade
Personal
TL;DR: A personal retrospective of 2023 2023 was a rough year # I usually enjoy doing these yearly posts, looking back at what I did and planning what I’ll do, but 2023 was a rough year.
Plakar: an avalanche of changes
·2625 words·13 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
Plakar
Backups
TL;DR: Significant refactoring to improve its performance, implemented read and write semaphores to throttle chunkers and reduce memory usage, introduced a repository index and packfiles to decrease the number of I/O operations, also intrioduced a new HTTP storage backend.
Plakar: a TON of changes
·3855 words·19 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
Plakar
Backups
TL;DR: TL;DR: a lot of work in plakar, but also on CDC and index optimization. Optimized go-fastcdc # I ran into a benchmark which included my implementation of the FastCDC algorithm, and it made me realise that it was not on par with alternative implementations:
Plakar: vfs importer interface
·1586 words·8 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
Plakar
Backups
TL;DR: I reworked the virtual filesystem layer in plakar, making it possible to write custom importers of data: use plakar to backup an s3 bucket, for instance.
Building my own guitar, part 4
·325 words·2 mins
Gilles Chehade
Music
Guitar
Diy
TL;DR: Came back from vacation, started working on the neck but realised I really needed more tools. Luckily, I could get some that weren’t too expensive.