DiegoLapiduz

I build the platforms other engineers build on — lately pointed at AI and security. On weekends I run one server in a closet and write down what happens to it.

Currently

Day job

Developer platforms

Technology executive, working on the platforms and tooling other engineers build on top of. Most of it lately points at AI and security — the two places where platform decisions stop being invisible.

Weekends

One server in a closet

A single Proxmox node that runs DNS, Home Assistant, metrics, logs, a media server, and a VM for AI agent experiments. Nothing on it is clicked into being: Terraform builds it, Ansible configures it, and if it is not in the repo it does not survive a rebuild.

What I'm running
Writing

Weekend Linux Warrior

Notes on Linux, home lab hardware, and running AI on machines I own rather than rent. The interesting part is usually the failure rather than the finished setup, so that is mostly what gets written down.

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Signal

  • LinkedIn

    Example entry — replace me

    This is a placeholder so the stream renders with two channels while the site is being set up. Delete it once there is a real post here, or run scripts/add-linkedin.py to append one.

  • WLW

    Building a mail app

    Every time I install Linux, I eventually end up using Thunderbird as my email client. It works fine. It does most of what you’d expect from an email client. But it never quite feels right to …

  • LinkedIn

    Second example entry

    Two entries rather than one, so the spacing and the alternating carrier ticks in the stream are visible while you are styling it.

  • WLW

    Computers stopped being fun, so I went back to Linux

    For as long as I can remember I’ve been running Linux on my servers, but on the desktop only ever in short bursts. My main laptop has been a Mac for twenty years, and I don’t have a …