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deep dives into linux, networking, homelab, and low-level systems
I got my first cell phone (Ericsson GA628) when I was a 8 years old. Cell phones were just for business people in those days. The rest of us used phone booths, which were handy and I thought they were fascinating (perhaps this should have been my first clue)? I
Arch Linux in 2026: An Honest Assessment From Someone Who Has Been Using It Since Before You Heard Of It I installed Arch around 2006 or 2007. I’m not sure of the exact year because I wasn’t keeping track. I came from Gentoo, which is like building your
It was summer in Dalarna. I was browsing Blocket, looking to flip something, when I found a late 90s Volvo S80, a first generation P2 platform, sitting dead on a driveway outside Sveg. The seller knew what was wrong. The ECU box had burned, literally melted. He had been to
Most people in IT have never experienced the dread of watching a revenue graph go flat at 11 PM on a Saturday. It’s not slow or declining. It’s flat, like someone unplugged the country. That is the job. The False Expectation Problem When I began working in iGaming
I spent years on Juniper in production. Edge routing, BGP peering, the kind of infrastructure where a misconfiguration at 3am does not just wake you up, it wakes up your boss, his boss, and someone in a suit who does not understand what a routing table is but absolutely understands
Jolla announced a new phone coming later this year. A purpose built device running Sailfish OS. I do not throw words like this around lightly but this genuinely got me excited in a way no phone announcement has in years. The last time I felt this way about a mobile