This is Kert Jalukse’s personal homepage/portfolio.
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Hardware
I started my homelabbing journey Q4 of 2024. I wanted to try self-hosting some services in Docker containers. As I wanted my homelab to be fairly power efficient, but powerful enough, I invested in an Intel N100 NUC with 16G of ram and 512G of storage. Also as I had taken interest in networking, I wanted the possibility of using it as a router, so I got one with two ethernet interfaces (haven’t tried that yet).
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OsDev?
This post is a little bit in theme with my started and forgotten about OsDev series. However as it doesn’t really fall in line with the project outline set in the abstract, I am not going to categorize it under there as of right now.
Anyway, what am I trying to do? I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 and of course I wanted to run baremetal Rust on it. As at the time of writing, I wasn’t able to find any libraries to help me in this endeavour and I’ve gotten more interested in lower level languages, I wanted to get assembly working on it first. As my main workstation is on
...x86_64architecture and Raspberry Pi is onaarch64, I needed a cross compiler. And of course, I needed to do it the Nix way. -
My CS course
I had a course called “Databases” (translation) this semester. As universities aren’t (at least for me in my studies right now) the best place for trendy new technologies, we of course concentrated on relational databases. Good thing at least we aren’t bought out by Oracle and still got to enjoy using PostgreSQL. The best part about the course in my opinion was the assignment to design a small database from scratch. I cannot say that I am too proud of how it turned out in the end, but I had other courses to worry about too and didn’t want to go down a rabbit hole by myself (it was a group project). Even the fact that I feel critically about it is comforting, because now I know that if I need to aid in designing a database down the line, I am able to catch some mistakes or just bad design choises that I would’ve otherwise made.
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