On Being Held
i hope you meet someone who doesn’t ask you to be fine.
someone who knows grief doesn’t disappear just because you’ve gotten tired of carrying it. …
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Working on Existing Systems
Freelancing in infrastructure means you don’t build clean systems—you inherit them. Usually at the exact moment they’ve become too …
The Quiet Middle
Content Warning: The following post discusses addiction and substance use. It includes references to mental health struggles and may be difficult …
A Word on Suicide
Content Warning: The following post discusses suicide and mental health struggles. It may be distressing to some readers. Please take care of …
Automating my Minecraft Server with SaltStack
Minecraft is fun.
Managing Minecraft manually? Absolutely not.
Not in 2025. Not with my attention span.
Also not when SaltStack exists and can do it …
GNOME Theme Switcher
If you’re using GNOME, you’ve probably noticed something annoying: when you flip between dark and light mode in GNOME, most apps change — …
Hide Applications in GNOME
If you use GNOME, you’ve probably noticed the app grid tends to show everything.
Some of it’s useful. Some of it’s… not. …
Growing Out of Survival Mode
There’s a peculiar silence that arrives when chaos ends. Not the peaceful kind, it’s more like standing in a room after the music cuts off, ears …
On Chaos and Quiet
My brain is a mess. I say that like it’s a bad thing, but honestly, it’s my favorite thing about me. Ideas explode, worries creep in, …
Fragments of the Open Web
The internet used to feel like a wide-open field. Messy, unpredictable, alive. It was a place where you could wander endlessly, trip over strange …