Notes on networks, systems, and the occasional detour.

I keep a small notebook of things that took me longer than expected to figure out: congestion control, latency budgets, DNS oddities, and the occasional shell trick. Mostly written for future me.

Recent

• Why your transfer stalls at 3% packet loss 2026-09-18
• Latency is a budget, not a number 2026-08-02
• A note on bufferbloat at home 2026-06-27

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