🌆 Sunday Coming to a Close 🌆
The RFC1918s are references to a set of domains which I've acquired over a number of years, specific to home-colo-startup lab architecture development. In standing with the concept of "Usage-Based Naming Convention"...
Technically, yes. Then I fell asleep before posting this; presently it's 4:55am, and the morning begins anew.
Positive amounts of progress in "The Machine Room", which is perhaps a more apt name for my home office and the 1/2 rack of RFC99 lab systems [1]. I've had a tendency to refer to it as a #HomeLab, and while some of the workloads are purely for personal enjoyment and nothing else, there's also startup related hybrid-cloud hardware and it's linked to the Hurricane Electric FMT2 colocation racks where the bigger metal lives.
Generally, the only systems that I want to keep at home are the ones which receive active physical attention with hardware changes or re-cabling etc; tasks that would be costly and not fun for Remote Hands to deal with at the colo.
So, why then all of this talk about computational hardware? Mostly just because it's enjoyable.
Footnotes and References
- [1] RFC99, RFC1918.tld
The RFC1918s are references to a set of domains which I've acquired over a number of years, specific to home-colo-startup lab architecture development. In standing with the concept of "Usage-Based Naming Convention", the following TLDs are used in my systems and hostname structures. Anything RFC is for private-local scope, and yes it does refer to the IETF RFC1918 if any becomes curious. Sometimes these domains have valid TLS wildcard certs, sometimes they are self-signed, sometimes there's no need for
- rfc1918.ai - All things LLM and M/L related, agentic flows, sentience
- rfc1918.cloud - Private and Hybrid cloud usage for logical addressing
- rfc1918.dev - Development related addresses, code repos, emails
- rfc1918.host - Hosts of course, virtual or metal and often embedded
- rfc1918.io - iSER, iSCSI, SAN, and similar storage specific functions
- rfc1918.sh - Script hosting, mostly used in automation workflows
- rfc1918.systems - Referential use, pending docs migration to new wiki
Additional TLDs for the Labs
My definition of Lab isn't always formal, or informal, or singular-entity driven. Sometimes I prefer to expand the term to include informally organized teams where there's a shared goal, though perhaps open-ended. In that regard, the most recent TLD has been assigned to bsd.engineering.
