Many years ago Jerry Pournelle wrote a column for the now-defunct Byte magazine called Computing at Chaos Manor. Nowadays a lot of system administrators and developers are homelabbing and writing about it, but he was probably one of the pioneers, so the title here is a nod to that history. As I am getting back to regular hobbyist software development and being our home’s Bastard Operator From Hell, I wanted to write more about that as well. In the past I have written while building both hardware and software, and I have found that it’s the best way to learn: read about it; do it; teach others what you learned.

In this blog I’ll be covering:

• DevOps and cloud engineering

• High performance computing techniques

• Data structures & algorithms

• New developments in software engineering & languages

• New developments in AI

with no particular planned cadence at this time, and no agenda.

As a global disclaimer, all writing here are my own personal opinions and not those of my employer. I have written on trading and markets as well in the past, and while I am not planning to do so here, none of this constitutes investment advice or a solicitation to purchase securities, and it is presented purely for educational purposes.