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bakaptr

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Recent Posts

Opti Hosts: Beyond Cloudflare, Choosing IPs by Latency

Over the past few days I threw together a small and beautiful little tool to deal with some tricky CDN geo-DNS strategies. It basically calls Globalping's API to get the resolution results for a domain in other regions, then picks the IP with the lowest ICMP latency and writes it to the local hosts file.

Review of 2024

A lot happened in 2024, so I'll write a running diary of it this year too.

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  2. In Beijing Again

    A week in Beijing, and the weather was really nice! Also managed to meet up with lots of old and new friends

    Sunset outside the window
    Sunset downstairs
    Sunset outside the airplane window
    A tiny rainbow halo outside the airplane window