Kenneth Finnegan, a network and hardware hobbyist, writes about running his own autonomous system, DNS, and hacking small devices.
HN links his post on creating a personal ASN as a BGP reference, plus his WRT54G RAM upgrade write-up.
Oh this is super interesting! I've been playing with Internetinabox, Kiwix, yt-dlp, httrack'd websites, mirrors of github orgs... and I have all this data but no frontend for it. Searchability is huge, I will definitely be playing with this.
IIAB, notably, has an offline maps function in recent versions. I haven't looked at how it works.
Ultimately I'd like to put _all_ that content behind the same interface as my local Othernet receiver node, some sort of Piratebox file-upload site, a local-only BBS sort of message-board, and whatever else might be useful if I found myself offline for a long time.
Oh btw, this may be of interest since you're likely to have a pi sitting there, maybe you'd like to bring up some other pis:
https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2018/01/off-grid-raspbian-repositories.html
Modular hardware? Yes, please! Right now, I can upgrade the RAM, CPU, GPU and storage in my servers, desktop, and laptop. My phone? Not so much. And it wouldn't pain me so much, but for the fact that I'm missing out on things like NFC and low power Bluetooth. If I can get a software defined radio in a wristwatch (http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2011/04/reprogramming-ez430-chronos-rf-dongle.html), then why can't I have one in a cell phone?
Related and fun: the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange[1]. The person who started it has a great blog[2] about all kinds of related things. There’s a really good interview[3] with him about how it started and what it takes to run it on the On The Metal podcast (highly recommended in general)
1: https://fcix.net
2: https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com
3: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/kenneth-finnegan
It doesn't have to be that large. Many people have "personal" ASNs.
Check out this blog (not me, I just remember it from years back): https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html
I remember swapping the TSOP packages on a WRT54 to double the RAM.
Here's a blog post about this, not sure if it was the same one I followed:
https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2010/09/upgrading-ram-in-wrt54gv2.html
Here is an interesting article for anyone interested in BGP or IXs https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html