This is the first post on the new site. It’s mostly here to prove the blog pipeline works end to end — but it’s also a real intent: I want to learn in public.
Why write things down
I have a networking and sysadmin background, and I’m now teaching myself development, DevOps, and a lot of AI/LLM tooling. Writing up what I learn does a few things:
- It forces me to actually understand something well enough to explain it.
- It leaves a trail I can come back to later.
- It builds a portfolio passively, as a side effect of learning.
The best documentation is the kind you write for your future self.
What’s coming
Mostly home-lab notes. I run a small lab and tend to break things in interesting ways. First up will probably be a write-up of migrating my remote access over to NetBird.
Here’s the kind of thing a post might include:
# check what's listening before and after a change
ss -tulpn | grep LISTENAnd inline bits like systemctl status netbird where it helps.
That’s it for the first one. If you’re reading this, the pipeline works.