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Me, Thomas
I’m a father of three sons, the oldest two being twins. I live with my kids and wife in Norway. I’m in my early 40s and find computers with Linux, electronics and home automation things pretty fascinating. I’m also a big fan of red wine, Whisky, pipes and cigars, and cooking.
Between work and family, there isn’t a lot of time left. I use it mostly in my home office/man-cave. A 10 m² (108 ft²) room in the basement, where I tinker with my homelab and electronics projects. I try to write about it.
If you’d like to get to know me even better:
Contact info
You might reach me on Mastodon — or email:
printf "%s@%s.%s\n" blog.contact cavelab dev
I do read all email, but might be slow to answer. Sorry in advance!
I’m not accepting guest posts, sponsorships, or any other form of advertising. I may publish the content of your email or chat, along with your name — if I think it could be useful to others.
Cavelab?
Well… My home office, man cave, server room, and electronics lab is a 10 m² (108 ft²) room in the basement — with thick concrete walls, and no windows. Kinda like a cave.
Blogroll
Here are some blogs that I have looked to for inspiration;
- apalrd’s adventures
- blog.kroy.io
- BrianLi
- Ctrl blog
- Intermittent Technology
- Jeff Geerling’s Blog
- Michael Stapelberg
- Rubenerd
This website
- code is hosted on my local Gitea instance
- statically generated by Hugo; using a modified Hello Friend theme
- built with Make
- hosted by Hetzner Cloud and AWS CloudFront
- DNS by LuaDNS
- search by Pagefind
- videos delivered with Bunny Stream
- written in Vim with the help of snippets
I aim to keep it simple, clean, and uncluttered.
Running cost
So what does it cost per month to keep a website like this going?
| Service | What | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Hugo | Site generator | $0 |
| AWS | CDN | $0 |
| LuaDNS | DNS | $0.5 |
| Plausible | Privacy-focused web analytics | $8 |
| Domeneshop | Domain name | $2 |
| Bunny Stream | Video delivery | $1 |
| Hetzner Cloud | Hosting | $5 |
| 💰 | Grand total | $16.5 |
License
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
All product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. All company, product and service names used in this website are for identification purposes only. Use of these names, logos, and brands does not imply endorsement.
Cover images are created with graphics from Vecta and SVG Repo.
Privacy policy
This website doesn’t store your data; track you; use cookies, advertisements, or affiliate links.
I am using Plausible analytics to collect aggregated visitor stats. No identifiable information is collected, I’m just curious how many visitors I have and what posts they read.
Using AI
I sometimes use an AI assistant to aid in analyzing, troubleshooting and documenting while working with projects. I see it as a research tool, not as a creative help.
This blog will not have blog posts written by AI, or images generated by AI — not now, and not in the future. Any quotes by an AI will be clearly marked.