“Only empty places can create echoes of lasting clarity,” --Mark Z. Danielewski

Choices made at the interface level often obscure dependencies at the infrastructure level. The real decisions—about DNS routing, server placement, logging compliance, and legal exposure—are made far below, in contracts and systems that users will never see.

The final arbiter of your life may not be a man with a gun or a god with a lightning bolt, but a civil servant with a rubber stamp. Misaligned. Dated. Irrevocable. Stamped once—and filed forever.

A rambling exposé on my many years of learning and employing the Linux operating system in my life and work.

In the age of large language models, where synthetic text flows with eerie coherence and casual eloquence, the line between authored and generated has blurred beyond easy recognition...