Updated: 2025-10-23
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Personally
- Wrapped up the last of my freelance work for the year.
- Back on Linux full time. Arch was awesome, truly just so good _but_ I need a tad less tinkering, so I am using Pop!_OS.
- Trying to implement my own miracle morning routine.
- Reading a lot.
Some projects in the works
Something I put on hold a few years ago for some reason is getting more certification. Gonna pick that back up. Also gonna start small, CompTIA Network+. Okay I know the reason. I got it into my head I wanted to be a super serious software engineer and put on the back burner some passions and interests. Funny how ideas take root. I cannot even pinpoint _where_ it came from. Probably just moving too quickly and was around more software engineering types than sysadmin and devops types. Anyway, I prefer designing + building the infrastructure and writing some code. Far more interesting to me.
I am extremely interested in running my own mail server. Big tech wants you to think that you cannot run your own services. Granted, email is not _easy_, but it is also not impossible. We used to run our own mail servers back in the day. Today it will require a bit more work. The first phase will be receiving email. I will be happy when I can setup email aliases and forwarding. Fingers crossed I can get a clean ipv4 address! I am probably going to use Debian Linux for this. Though I did see that you can setup FreeBSD servers at Vultr very cheaply. It's something to consider. I value self hosting.
I have repurposed a couple of old Intel Macbook Pros into a kubernetes cluster in the home lab. A lot of websites will tell you not to do this, k8s is too difficult to setup and run from scratch. How else am I going to learn it though lmao?! So far, yes it's a complex beast, but it's pretty fucking cool and I see why it's become standard in the industry. Managing it at scale would be a beast of a job no doubt, but it's a fun challenge and I am learning a lot. I can deploy workloads to it that's enough for me, for now.
I am tinkering with Indieweb again. Let's build a social fabric over the web that is not owned and gated by big tech. Let's free the web from the chains of corporate control. Like it used to be. Like it was meant to be. I will say though, Indieweb is not simple. There are a lot of layers and moving parts that require some technical knowledge and ability that is a bit outside of the reach of most people. However I see potential to help build those tools that will make it easier for others to join in.