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Archive for January 6th, 2026

pierogi engineering – YouTube – search – hard drive

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06

The algorithm got me to the first video of this list: [Wayback/Archive] pierogi engineering – YouTube – search – hard drive

It’s similar to a longer second video that also does balancing using the gyroscopic effect of the moving platters.

Nice!

Video links:

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Posted in 18650, Batteries, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, HDD, Li-Ion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

A few pfSense quirks I got used to over the years

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06

Everytime when installing a pfSense router from scratch, I seem to re-learn a few of the below quirks. So it was finally time to document them (:

Quite a few of my pfSense configurations are just doing routing between various networks, should not provide DHCP leases and do not always need or have a WAN connected (i.e. they are LAN-only).

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Posted in Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Cyberchef, Development, DHCP, Encoding, Event, Hardware, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers, Software Development, SSH, TCP, TLS, UDP | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »