~ $ about

harsla — about

~ $ whoami

Software engineer in Arizona. 20+ years building things, breaking things, and figuring out how everything works along the way.

~ $ cat philosophy.txt

Open source. Local-first software. Own your data. This site runs on a server in a closet — no cloud, no landlords. If it breaks, I fix it. If it disappears, I rebuild it.

~ $ ls interests/

homelabs/ offroading/ overlanding/ self-hosting/ ai/ vehicles/ 3d-printing/ woodworking/ metalworking/ garage-projects/ dark-humor/ edm/

~ $ uptime

Online since the 90s. Questioning official narratives the entire time. Prefer to build it, fix it, or take it apart rather than buy the managed version.

~ $ cat /etc/homelab/status

26 containers on Proxmox • GTX 1070 GPU passthrough • Synology NAS • Local AI inference via Ollama • Everything behind Tailscale

Suggested commands:

ls builds/ ls projects/ cat blog/latest