Hi, I’m Jimmie.
I write about Linux, homelabbing, self-hosting, private AI, home automation, and the practical art of making systems behave.
I’m drawn to technology that feels useful, understandable, and worth having in my life. That usually means fewer black boxes, less vendor junk, less telemetry creep, and more direct control over the tools I rely on.
This site is where I share:
- technical guides
- system fixes
- homelab and self-hosting ideas
- architecture choices and tradeoffs
- opinions about tools, platforms, and the weird ways people end up living with technology
- rants about really, really bad products or software
Some of it is practical. Some most of it is HIGHLY opinionated. But generally, it’s just me trying to figure out which tools are actually worth keeping close – and which ones deserve to be publicly shamed for being garbage.
My background is in enterprise cloud and infrastructure, but over time I’ve become a lot more interested in systems that are personal, transparent, durable, and actually worth using. The farther I’ve gone, the less patience I’ve had for bloated platforms (read: Windoze), rented dependencies, and technology that treats the user like a product to be managed instead of a person to be respected.
Outside of tech, I’m a dog and cat dad, a reef nerd, a foodie, and someone with a recurring history of turning “this should be simple” into an unnecessarily elaborate project for reasons that usually make sense only to me.
If you’re into Linux, owned systems, practical technical depth, and technology with some actual taste behind it, we’ll probably get along.