/home/pablo/about_the_situation

Hello.
I’m Pablo.
I make things
unnecessarily real.

Programmer, photographer, founder, server hoarder and occasional archaeologist of the old web. I like computers that do useful things, websites that look like somebody lives there and projects that probably did not need to exist until I decided they did.

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        /                  \
       |   PABLO MURAD      |
       |   LOCAL HUMAN      |
       |                    |
       |   [o]        [o]   |
       |         __         |
       |      ._______.     |
        \                  /
         '------.  .------'
                ||
          ______||______
         /              \
        /   works here   \
       /__________________\

artist’s reconstruction
accuracy disputed

⚠ WARNING This person may turn a perfectly normal weekend into a new domain, three Docker containers and a README.

01 / ABOUT THE OPERATOR

I don’t really have hobbies. I have infrastructure.

I run companies, write code, photograph things, collect ideas and keep a suspicious number of machines alive. Some projects are useful. Some are experiments. Some are elaborate excuses to learn one obscure thing at 2:13 in the morning.

I like Linux, self-hosting, small communities, strange software, terminal interfaces, old internet culture, books, cinema and physical objects with buttons that click properly.

I believe software should feel like it belongs to someone. A website can have fingerprints. A server can have a name. A page can be weird on purpose.

02 / CURRENTLY IN POSSESSION OF

001

too many servers

Most of them have names. This seemed reasonable at the time.

002

a camera

Used to photograph light, cities, people and evidence that I occasionally leave the terminal.

003

several companies

Real companies, real people, real responsibilities. Somehow the weird websites survive.

004

many domains

I will not be taking questions at this time.

005

unfinished ideas

Properly stored, carefully named and absolutely multiplying.

666

curiosity

Known issue. No patch available.

pablo@somewhere:~ [ definitely not production ]

$ whoami
pablo

$ cat interests.txt
programming
photography
cinema
literature
history
self-hosting
small web
beautifully unnecessary projects

$ uptime
long enough to know better

$ systemctl status normal-person.service
● normal-person.service
  Loaded: not-found
  Active: inactive (dead)

$ _

03 / THINGS I SEEM TO BELIEVE

01 The web is better when it looks inhabited.

02 Fast software is a form of respect.

03 Owning your tools is still a good idea.

04 Not every project needs investors, analytics or a dashboard.

05 A weird idea finished is more interesting than a perfect idea postponed forever.

06 You can learn almost anything by breaking it carefully enough.

choose a door. outcomes are not guaranteed.

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 > ^ <    by the department of cats

approval status: begrudging