When Time Broke the Internet

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0500

I recently faced a major home networking hiccup, and after spending entirely too much time debugging it, I decided it was an interesting enough mystery to document as my first post here.

Background

I got interested in self-hosting and home networking a few months ago, and that took me down a huge rabbit hole of a mix-and-match of different tools and configurations. The start was a Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500, but then it spiraled into me buying an Intel NUC (BOXNUC8I7BEH) for OPNsense and an Aruba 2530-8-PoE+ to manage the VPNs. I had a spare ASUS RT-AX52 on which I flashed OpenWrt and performed the same setup on an Etisalat S3 AC 2100.

Hello World

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0500

Hi, I’m Ubadah Jafry, and this post is about the website itself. I finally got myself together and started writing a blog.

Fair warning: this website was vibe-coded using Claude Code. I did some research and created initial plans, but I didn’t code anything manually (other than modifying some minor theme stuff). I don’t get to use Claude much in my day-to-day work, but in this case it worked pretty well, and it took me a couple of hours to get everything running.

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When Time Broke the Internet

Background

Hello World