Hello
I'm Kyle. Over the years I've managed multi-family properties, prepared taxes at a CPA firm, and started a small recruiting agency. These days I spend a lot of my free time on self-hosted infrastructure and Linux-related projects.
This site exists because I wanted somewhere to point people asking about the servers and services I run for friends and family. Consider it a rough map of what I've been up to.
Projects
I switched to Linux as a daily desktop in 2016 and have tried most of the major distributions along the way — Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora. Mostly I enjoy the process of figuring out how systems work and what happens when you push them harder than intended.
Some setups I maintain:
- Mail-in-a-Box server — email and basic cloud services for a small circle
- ejabberd — XMPP/MQTT server
- Snikket — another XMPP setup, this one in Docker
All hosted on Vultr (affiliate link, FYI).
Day-to-day I deal with: APT/DNF package management, BTRFS filesystem, SSH and SCP/SFTP, Postfix/Dovecot for mail, Nginx, systemd, Git, and the usual suspects (grep, rsync, vim/nano). Also spent some time with FreeBSD but haven't made the jump to daily driver yet.