Hello! My name is Oliver, this is my personal website (such as it is), and welcome. Thank you for taking the time to visit.

I consider myself a passionate technologist, with a background in infrastructure/operations. I’m also an amateur gardener, musician, electronics enthusiast and DIYer, but nobody pays me for that.

I’d like to use this as a space to share my thoughts and ideas about engineering problems, weekend projects, philosophy, and technology writ large.

I’ve spent a lot of my time on the internet, and I’m sure you have too. I’m of the age (almost 30 now), where I’m young enough to not be able to remember a world without it, yet old enough to remember what it was like before it got smaller, more centralized, widely adopted and surveilled.

While I don’t personally cleave to any of the axioms of tech-adjacent ideologies, these things do tend to crop up. As such, I consider it necessary to acknowledge these trends from time to time, while maintaining an informed and principled stance on global issues.

That’s not a commitment or anything by the way, I’m just saying it could come up is all.

With that being said, I hold the right to modify any material on the webpage at any time, though I’ll try and make a note of anything major. The opinions expressed are solely my own, and do not reflect those of my employer(s).

Why Gothic Glamor?

This is me trying to make a reference to Eric Raymond’s ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’ (CATB) and some notion of ‘Gothic Glamor’ as the product of plucky craftspeople with a plan and a purpose. It’s a lot harder than it looks, but it looks really cool.

This site runs on Hugo, using the Terminal Theme.