About

I do a lot of things and I document them poorly. Really poorly. Sometimes they work for years and I even forget I did something to make them work that way. Is there a better way of making myself accountable than to post all my experiments and ramblings on the public internet? Absolutely nothing could go wrong here.

Most of my projects revolve around System Administration, DevOps and the basic urge to abandon civilization and start living in the woods making life a little bit more manageable for me and the people around me. Sometimes I even (re)start gardening all of a sudden.

I try to keep everything as self-hosted as possible. That is: I prefer being able to see, touch and maintain the machines I use. Every CPU, SSD, single-board computer, whatever component I used has an history of how it helped me, what it provided and how good it was at doing what it did. Because they were all good. I’m not against the Cloud, I use it sparingly in my personal life, but its intangible nature makes it less fun for me. Therefore I often reinvent the wheel precisely for that reason: it is fun to do so.

Why the name?

I don’t necessarily have the strictest rigor in what I do for personal endeavors. For everything except work I live by this rule:

The first rule of System Administration is to have fun.
— Probably me, 2026

That means that often a good solution is what makes me laugh when I think about it. Like this one:

Mom, can we have stress?
We have stress at home
The stress at home:
for i in $(seq $(nproc)); do while [ 1 ]; do echo -ne $i '\r'; done &; done¹

Or this one:
ssh host@hostname "tar -C /source -Oc folder/file" | pv | tar -x -C /destination

Why would I need rsync when I can just spit data in a pipe and hope it survives
— Me once again, 2026

Therefore you’ll probably see whatever floats my boat² posted in this blog.

Typos

You may sometimes see strange typos, such as:

kubectl get gods -A

and that’s because I use Colemak btw. That’s the Arch Linux equivalent for keyboard layouts. Sorry, fellow Colemak users, I don’t make the rules.

Analytics

This website only uses Umami for analytics, self-hosted on one of my servers.

Disclaimer

Every content provided in this blog is not based on opinions, but on fundamental truths revealed to me by the Universe through several dreams. Of course any company or entity affiliated with me does not share the same revelatory dreams, therefore does not necessarily share the same “views”, “opinions” or “positions” if you want to put it that way. It’s their loss, really.

As stated above, there is no guarantee of rigor in this blog. Granted, I won’t tell you to run a # rm -rf --no-preserve-root / on your daily driver (maybe?), but I also won’t follow industry standards to the letter. Because, shockingly enough: I’m an individual and not a company.