Heya!

Name's Max. A little bit of a coder, a little bit of a DM, a little bit of a self-hoster, a little bit of a musician, mayhaps a little bit of an artist.

Want to be a cyborg-samurai. Born too late to be a samurai, too early to be a cyborg. Not a fan of this timeline.

Coding's been a hobby of mine for a long time. These days I've drifted more into creative stuff, but the experience still comes in handy every now and then.

Stuff About Me

• I'm afraid of shrimps
• I have more dragon tattoos than a sane person probably should (think 6 but I am not sure)
• I started backing my main server after I wiped 300 gigs of data by accident through ncdu
• A little ADHD ball of chaos, in case that wasn't obvious yet

Where to Find Me

GitHub is mostly a mirror, stuff lives on my GitLab. Most of the projects are built there too if you'd want to deploy!

• Website: https://rferee.dev/
• Infra status & map: https://rferee.dev/isn/
• GitLab: https://l.rfer.ee/gl

Projects Worth a Look

• Laiven — an API-first platform for building constructed languages because I got tired of a solution glued out of 4 other apps
• Vaso — an LLM-powered lore context panel for Obsidian worldbuilding vaults, semantic search, local LLMs something-something, blah-blah-blah

The Infra Factsheet

The Backbone

• 5 authoritative DNS nameservers across FI / PL / CH / JP, named after women in computing (Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, Radia Perlman, Mary Wilkes)
• An alternative DNS root served by those same nameservers, because why not
• PowerDNS + octoDNS DNS management, Caddy as the edge reverse proxy, all deployed from git on every push to master with zero reprecautions. And yes, that backfired more than once.
• Tailscale as the glue between hosts, if Tailscale ever goes down I'll be... Uhhh, inconvenienced.
• Hetzner my beloved.

Identity & Ops

• Authentik + Zitadel
• Portainer, Grafana, Sentry, Beszel for ops and observability
• Self-hosted GitLab + container registry

Storage, Files, Content

• MinIO (S3), Paperless (3 instances I think), ArchiveBox (web archiving), Linx (for file sharing)

Creative / Productivity

• Penpot (design), drawio (diagrams), Obsidian sync, Foundry VTT for DMing, a blog, a Matrix homeserver + Element

Utilities That Save My Sanity

• LanguageTool, rallly (polls), D&D tooling

Utilities That Kill My Sanity

• A couple of random APIs I wrote myself. I am not sure what they do. I am not sure if they are used. I ain't taking em down.

That's it, goodbye and we shall meet again!

Here's a dragon. I love dragons. 🐉🐉🐉

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