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Welcome to My Personal Space

Hello, and welcome to my little corner of the internet!

To be honest, I don’t expect a flood of visitors here – perhaps only those with very specific questions or interests will stumble upon this site. Still, this space serves as my personal journal, a place to share the projects I’m working on and give my mind a break from the daily grind.

Whether you’re curious about home automation, software development, tinkering with vintage computers, exploring Unix-like systems, or diving into my latest microcontroller experiments, you might just find something of interest here. Or perhaps not – either way, this site is as much for me as it is for anyone else.

Intro

I would like to say that I have something special to boast about, but in reality, I don’t. I work a fairly ordinary job as an IT administrator and live a simple life. Like everyone else, I constantly feel that there is never enough time—unfortunately, a day still has only 24 hours. Life is short, yet there is so much to explore and try. That is why I remain curious about many things, learning whatever I can, step by step—sometimes going deeper into certain areas, sometimes only touching the surface of others. Still, I haven’t lost hope that the IT profession will survive and won’t be completely overtaken or trivialized by the approaching AI hype bubble.

Twenty years ago, things felt different. IT was exciting—it felt like discovery. Everything was new, interesting, and full of promise. Today, much of it has turned into routine, where it is increasingly difficult to find topics that remain genuinely engaging or don’t become boring too quickly. Over the past two decades in IT, I’ve done a bit of everything: programming, system and network administration, security-related work, and more. I’ve always worked—and still work—with whatever truly interests me. And my interests are broad: software development, networking, infrastructure, security audits, low-level systems, and beyond.

What probably draws me the most is nostalgia—older software, older hardware, and the design philosophies behind them. I have a collection of vintage computers and software, which I occasionally take off the shelf like a dusty old book. I brush off the dust, open it, and rediscover how interesting things used to be, how thoughtful and elegant many solutions were. Those kinds of solutions are becoming rare today. Everything is fast-paced, bloated, and riddled with bugs. It no longer surprises anyone that half of modern software—even desktop applications—is written in JavaScript. Twenty years ago, this would have been a joke. Today, it’s considered normal. I honestly don’t know how many more such distortions the IT industry has ahead of it.

Perhaps one day people will realize that enough is enough—that it’s time to stop producing nonsense and start writing optimized, well-thought-out software again. I hope that day comes. Maybe AI will help improve things rather than make them worse. I believe it will have an impact, but only time will tell how much real, practical value it will bring.

For my part, I try to contribute in my own way—to reduce chaos rather than add to it. I strive to write proper software: efficient, native, and compiled to real machine code, instead of forcing even the simplest tasks through a web browser. As for operating systems, I have always been a command-line enthusiast. I was born into DOS, grew up with DOS and Linux, spent several years using FreeBSD as a desktop system, returned to Linux, and eventually settled on macOS. At work, I still have to use Windows—but the clunky interface leaves me wondering how things deteriorated so badly. I remember the Windows 95 era, when systems felt faster on hardware that was a hundred times slower. Today we have incredibly powerful hardware, yet the software often feels like complete garbage.

I genuinely don’t understand where the industry is heading. Is it all about money? A money-printing machine? That’s hard to believe—there hasn’t really been “big money” in IT for a long time, especially not at the hands-on engineering level. Given the knowledge and experience required, many of us are paid little more than pocket change.

On one hand, I am an entrepreneur; on the other, I am a futurist. I have never worked purely for money, and I never will. I work on things that interest me, things that have meaning in this otherwise grey everyday life. I honestly don’t care much about corporate standards for the sake of standards. Let’s build what works—and works well. One day, history will remember that there were people who fought like partisans for software that was optimized, reliable, fast, and built properly—across all operating systems.

When it comes to operating systems, I have long been a supporter of alternatives. Over the years I’ve worked with Solaris, BeOS (now Haiku), explored the ideas behind Plan 9, experimented with Palm OS, and even enjoyed projects like FreeDOS. Running old archival software is often a reminder that code used to be optimized and carefully written. This is history we should learn from. I know many vintage-computing enthusiasts would agree with me completely—and I’m confident in that belief.

If not for the web, I suspect many people would still happily be using older computers that brought real joy. Instead, we now see technology progressing in one area while degrading in another. Look at the computer that was used to send humans to the Moon—and compare it to what we have today. Could today’s systems reliably do the same job? We haven’t sent humans back to the Moon in decades. Maybe we’re afraid that code written in JavaScript would crash halfway there. It’s a scary thought, considering where software development might be heading next.

Why This Space Exists

This site is my way of documenting the things I create, experiment with, and tinker on – whether it’s:

• Unique tech projects for smart homes and automation
• Software projects
• Tools for vintage systems that bridge old hardware with modern capabilities
• Networking experiments with failovers, VLAN testing, and more
• Or simply personal projects that let me relax, explore, and step away from the routine

So, if you’re here out of curiosity, welcome – and feel free to look around. You never know, you might find a project that inspires you, helps you solve a problem, or sparks an idea of your own.

If not? That’s okay too – I’ll still be here tinkering away, one project at a time.