It’s odd, you know. I set this website up like a year ago, with the intention of using it to track my progress messing around with a homelab, and websites and mail servers and all kinds of neat things. I was thinking about learning UE5, for a hot minute! But writing about what I was doing always seemed like so much effort, and like, I didn’t actually WANT to be one of those people that actually have a blog.

Free time to fuck around with shit
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Time spent writing down anything of use
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Urge to have progress bars on this page for no reason
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Even this page, the first ‘real’ ‘blog post’ that I’m ‘writing’ while I’m at ‘work’ is honestly just me fucking around with Elementor, clicking around on things, and seeing what seems interesting. Although, I suppose, that’s how we learn, isn’t it? I wouldn’t know, I haven’t learned a thing in my life.

I suppose I really just wanted to have something silly that I could point to and go “Look, it’s really stupid, there’s no purpose for it, and I’m spending money to keep it alive, but it’s mine and I love it.”

Now that I think about it, I could probably do the same with a child, huh?

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Amount of really cool ideas I had

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Amount of really cool ideas I implemented

TrashPanda and Friends

For when you really want to hear Raihan say the most insane shit ever.

Although all great journeys begin with a single step, don’t they? I’ve joined a silly little AI Discord server, met some great people, and started to feel useful to them, which is nice. Even if it’s just running Minecraft servers and spinning up websites. It’s nice to talk to people with shared interests, I suppose.

Still, with any luck, I DO plan to write more on here in future. I know, I’ve said it before. But like for real this time. I’ve looked into Veeam and want to learn more about that. Server management and sysadmin stuff is sick. If I can figure out how to categorise things, maybe I’ll do that as well, who knows.

I know the website is boring – black text on white background – but I genuinely do not care. Maybe I’ll figure out dark mode, who knows!

In conclusion: haha Spanker Knob