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Valentin Haudiquet

Software Engineer

A History of My Homelab

December 30, 2025

homelab

Recently, I migrated the services I host to an enterprise server (a Dell R740) running from my home. This is the latest significant step in my homelab, where I can both experiment and host production services. This is a good excuse to make a technical retrospective of how it all started and evolved into what it is today.

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Joining Canonical to work on RISC-V support for Ubuntu

November 18, 2025

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ubuntu

Two months ago, on September 1st 2025, I started a new job at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. My role involves working on RISC-V architecture support for the operating system. It allowed me to learn a lot about Debian and Ubuntu, packaging for and maintaining an operating system, as well as how the RISC-V architecture and ecosystem work and evolve.

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