About

I currently work in the IT Sector and love every second of it. I started this website as a learning exercise. Hopefully I'll find more uses for it as my career progresses. For now it'll have to do as a showcase of what I can achieve!

I have a beautiful, kind wife. I have an adorable daughter. I have a loving hound. Together we are a family. I'm an avid gamer. I dabble in all sorts of tech and IT related projects. I can't help but tinker away with my homelab. I'm a massive proponent of self-hosted solutions. I have a corporate grade firewall which I have studied and become certified to manage! But enough about me, let's move on to some more exciting parts of the website!

Technology

I have undertaken and completed a City & Guilds apprenticeship which has certified me as a level 3 Infrastructure Technician. This is ideal as infrastructure is a massive passion of mine. I love data, stats, bandwith, bare-metal servers, virtual machines, network switches, network cabinets, fibre optic cables and so on and so forth! 10 gig links between solid state network storage is a glorious thing to behold! (Will need to come back and update this when that's considered slow!) I have a love-hate relationship with Linux. I love learning it, but sometimes I hate using it! Why are some of the most basic tasks so complicated?! It's no wonder Windows rose to prominence! I could talk Linux for a while. My favourite flavours are Debian and Ubuntu.

I'm kind of addicted to VPS'es in the cloud. This is part of where my love for Linux started. Windows licensing is expensive! So to save money I stick to the Linux which comes as standard. The added benefit is the lower hardware requirements. I'm a big fan of XFCE4 and XRDP. You can get a 'desktop' for an incredibly low cost. Now I can hear Linux enthusiasts screaming because I've mentioned having a GUI, but hear me out! Apart from using a Terminal Multiplexer (which I am a big fan of tmux), having the GUI is nice for a persistent terminal. I.E. you want to leave a command running when you disconnect via SSH. Now bear in mind there are many ways to achieve these same results but as a beginner/mediocre user of Linux, I'm a big fan of ease-of-use, especially since that seems to be bottom of the list of priorities for whoever designs them.

Gaming

So my ability to ramble on is unprecedented. I'll now endeavour to make that obvious in this section (if I hadn't already in previous ones :P). I mostly game on PC. I have fairly beastly specs and my PC alone can heat up the front room after a couple hours of gaming. Some games are worse offenders for this (looking at you, Total War: Warhammer III). As consoles go; I also have an Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo Switch. I recently have purchased a Steam Deck and an Asus Rog Ally. Love them both. My favourite games are probably an RPG. I love open world sandboxes as a preference but linear can also be an amazing experience.

I also love creative games, so Minecraft comes to mind straight away. But some lesser known gems and personal favourites of mine are Robocraft and Crossout. Robocraft was so important in my life because I actually ended up not only making some friends playing it, but meeting them in 'real life' too! And who says playing games isn't sociable.

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