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Red5Rebel

@Red5Rebel

Currently living atop some 99.3% uranium-238 enriched soil, just outside the Y-12 National Security Complex

Oak Ridge, TN

Joined July 2024

6 Followers

20 Following

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About Me

I'm a self-hosting enthusiast running Proxmox with more than a few open source applications occupying VMs and LXCs. My tech journey started long, long ago in what seems like a galaxy far, far away - spending my early-mid childhood days with my Dad over my shoulder as we learned Atari BASIC language through programming tutorials in Compute! & BYTE Magazine together. Now, after crossing the line into middle age, I spend my free time building real projects to learn modern web and application development, along with exploring containerization and automation. I'm about to venture into the world of modern development with ReactJS, Tailwind CSS, Python etc. (wish me luck!)

:desktop_computer: Current Setup

Self-hosted infrastructure on 3 Proxmox 9 hosts
Windows 11 Pro daily driver
Use Debian Linux and Proxmox every day
Do everything in my power to keep it FOSS where I can

:computer: The Tech I'm Into

Computer hardware architecture and optimization
Open source software and self-hosting
AI/ML from technical, practical, and philosophical angles

What I dig

:alien: Sci-Fi and RetroFuturism

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope & Tron (1982) sparked my love for all things geeky when I was around 4 years old.

:joystick: Gaming

Started in the Atari 2600 era (currently rock an Xbox Series X)

:satellite: Science

Theoretcal Physics
String Theory
The origins of life
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence

:rocket: What I know

I bring decades of Windows expertise (Hello, Windows 3.1) and systems thinking to my development learning curve. I'm building competency through hands-on projects, learning by doing, voiding warranties, breaking things and (hopefully) fixing them.

:radioactive: Where I am

Currently living in the Secret City at the heart of the Manhattan Project

Always happy to connect with self-hosters, open source developers, and people who remember when "multimedia" meant the choice between a 3.5-inch floppy disc, Zip Disk or a CD-R