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# [Middle-earth and the Digital Infarction](https://slashgordon.hashnode.dev/middle-earth-and-the-digital-infarction?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

How an Intel i219-LM network card in power-saving mode brought down the entire LAN and how I fixed it with kernel tuning.

Aug 21 · 4 min read · slashgordon.hashnode.dev  
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[Christoph Dieck](https://hashnode.com/@cdieck88)

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Cloud infrastructure by day. Serverless WebAssembly by night.

I am a Cloud and DevOps Systems Engineer managing AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines by day. However, when I build my own side projects under the handle SlashGordon, I completely abandon the backend. I am obsessed with pure client-side architecture. I build zero-backend, browser-native applications using Astro, TypeScript, and Rust compiled to WebAssembly. My development philosophy is strict: no databases, no server maintenance, and zero user accounts. If it can run instantly and securely on the user's local machine, that is how I build it.

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