Contact

If you need to reach me, please send an email to: info at metebalci dot com

About me

I met computers at the end of 1980s. I studied computer & electronics engineering (bsc, msc) at the end of 1990s and early 2000s. I am curious about many things, and this blog is a reflection of that.

I have a few projects on Github.

You might have reached this page from Speedtest as I provide a public Speedtest server. This server operates on a 10G WAN link and located in Zug, Switzerland. From a 10Gbps network capable machine (n2-standard-2) in nearest Google Cloud zone (europe-west6, Zurich), Speedtest CLI reports 8 Gbps download and 6.8 Gbps upload with 2.65ms latency. At the moment, I have limited the bandwidth (not specifically for Speedtest) to around 5 Gbps.

About the content in this site

None of the posts are sponsored and I am not affiliated with any of the companies or the manufacturers of the products mentioned in the posts, otherwise it will be explicitly stated in the post.

I usually work on multiple posts at the same time. Hence, it sometimes takes too long to publish a new post.

About this site

This site is pre-generated using Hugo. I am editing it with vim on Ubuntu Linux.

The font used in this site is Berkeley Mono.

I keep the site under Git version control ([email protected]) under a private GitHub repo.

I am using Netlify and Cloudflare to host the website. Each push on GitHub repo is deployed automatically (last deploy: 03 Jun 2023 14:02 UTC) to Netlify. The site is served by Cloudflare to the public as it caches the content from Netlify. I use the apex domain (metebalci.com), and www subdomain redirects to apex.

I use Hover as my domain registrar and Cloudflare for DNS.

This site can only be accessed by HTTPS and HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is also enabled.

DNSSEC is also enabled for this zone (metebalci.com).

About the visitors

Last update: 2023.06.02

This site is visited approx. by 16K unique visitors per month as measured by Cloudflare from the server logs. Approx. 40% of the requests come from USA, about 10% from Germany, then 5% from UK, followed by India and France. The most popular (Google) search queries (last 28 days) for the content in this site are: “rega planar 3 upgrades”, “arm trustzone example”, “dpkg-buildpackage”, “acpi-cstates”, “cpu power states”, “dnssec tutorial”, “nvme mdts”.