This is my home on the web

Hockey

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:53:00 -0500

Ice Hockey

After spending six months in Edmonton, Alberta, when I was 16, I became a fan of hockey: its speed, its roughness, the talent of its players.

After going to a couple of games (watching Henrik Lundqvist on goal, no less!) with my wife, she’s now a hockey fan, and we’ve been to several NY Rangers games; we recently watched almost every game in their 2023-2024 season, sadly losing the Eastern Conference Finals.

Podcasts

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:24:00 -0500

We’ve been turning into an all-Google household. We both have Pixel phones, Pixel watches, Android TV on both our main TV set and a projector, and our Volvo EV runs Google Automotive Services as well.

That’s why we’ve been moving away from streaming radio stations, to YouTube Music and its suggested playlists, for most of our music listening.

Podcasts have been relegated to late-night kitchen cleanup and while doing the dishes. Recent favorites:

OK Jazz, an eclectic mix of great music from all over the world, hosted by James Catchpole out of Yokohama.
If Books could Kill, great takedowns of popular self-help and other books with questionable objectives.

Self-hosting

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0500

Self-hosting

I have a number of apps that are very useful to my workflow and our shared documents and information; I’ll leave a brief list here, in order to flesh out the details later on. I’m using LXD containers for most of these.

FreshRSS, an RSS feeds reader
Monica CRM, a personal contacts manager
Vikunja, a to-do list and project manager with kanban support
Jellyfin, to manage our movies and series
Tandoor, a recipe manager
Beancount and Fava, to track our personal finances
Immich (New!), a photo albums manager with maps and people search

Travel photos

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House plants

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Our living room and dining room are brimming with plants. I’ve been meaning to take pictures of all of them and put them here in a gallery or database.

We love our monstera deliciosa, and our fig leag ficus, a couple of very popular plants, but our begonias have also been growing nicely.

Home projects

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Traditional shaving

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:00:00 -0500

Traditional shaving

Wet shaving with brush and double edge blades

I started wet shaving, using shaving cream or soap instead of canned foam, and a safety razor with double edge blades

Read more about traditional shaving at Reddit’s wicked edge
or the forums at Badger & Blade

Current equipment

I’m using a Merkur 34C safety razor, with a silvertip badger brush.

Recent favorite soaps:

Henri et Victoria Cognac and Cuban Cigars
Lakewood Smokeberry, from Pasteur Pharmacy.

Travel equipment

For traveling, if I know I can find blades easily, I’ll take the dismountable Merkur 33 Travel and Edwin Jagger Synthetic Brush. Otherwise, I recently got a cute Yoose mini electric shaver.

Ansible

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:00:00 -0500

Ansible

Moved almost all of our sysadmin duties from Puppet to Ansible, and trained my team on its use. We can clearly see several advantages to this flexible and powerful tool.

About me

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Currently exploring Django, and lots of awesome self-hosted apps; Espresso enthusiast, latte art beginner. I try to take good care of my plants. Trying out the Fediverse and the Indieweb.

Cooking

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:00:00 -0500

We renovated our apartment’s kitchen, and we’ve been enjoying cooking and baking much more than before. Our most used appliance is the combination slow cooker/rice maker/ pressure cooker from InstantPot.

We also enjoy steak and salmon, cooked sous vide on the gorgeous Joule.

Recent additions: Instant Vortex 4qt air fryer, and KitchenAid Artisan Mini 3.5qt stand mixer.

Hugo

Mon, 05 Sep 2016 18:00:00 -0500

Hugo

Website generator and multi-purpose text processor

Some of the sites that I’m involved with don’t change that often. Static site generators change the entire workflow of web development.

Specialty coffee

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 05:00:00 -0500

Living in Colombia, it’s a matter of pride to seek out the best local roasters, and I’m constantly exploring coffee from new regions and farms. My favorite method of brewing is espresso, but I also enjoy the sweetness that the Chemex method brings to the cup.

Linux and Free software

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:00:00 -0500

I’m a long-time Linux user, and we currently administer over 100 Ubuntu systems in our company: servers as well as laptops and thin clients sharing multi-user resources. Most of this configured and administered via Ansible.

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This is my home on the web

Hockey

Ice Hockey

Podcasts

Self-hosting

Self-hosting

Travel photos

2022

2019

2018

2016

2015

2014

2013

House plants

Archives

Home projects

Traditional shaving

Traditional shaving

Wet shaving with brush and double edge blades

Current equipment

Travel equipment

Ansible

Ansible

About me

Cooking

Hugo

Hugo

Specialty coffee

Linux and Free software

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