About

Who/what I am

My name is deneb, I live in Austria — Innsbruck to be precise — I'm 24 years old, and currently in my 7th and hopefully final semester studying computer science (as of 2024-10). I am just working on my bachelor's thesis at this point, and looking to become a backend/systems (DevOps I guess?) engineer in the near future.

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In case you're unaware, I'm a furry. This means, tl;dr, that I have a deep appreciation for visual art depicting animals (anthropomorphic or otherwise) and the community of artists and like-minded people that has developed around it. deneb is my fursona, and on occasion I throw some money the way of artists to get them drawn in their style. Have a look at the Art gallery — displaying the commissions I get is honestly my website's primary purpose at this point :3

What I do

My interests centre around PCs and digital technology (unsurprisingly).
I've been daily-driving Linux since 2019, having played around with Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, before settling on Arch.

I particularly enjoy computers talking to each other, aka. networking. I started off on Windows and so have some experience with Microsoft Active Directory (which I had running in the background until 2023!) and associated services, though most of my knowledge does centre around modern Linux and Docker. I own a few domains on which I self-host most of my stuff, including:

leggi.es — this website!
- the.leggi.es — manes :o
screee.ee — fencs :>
- a Matrix homeserver; conduwuit to be specific, but will probably migrate to Grapevine soon
- mail.screee.ee — an email server powered by Mailcow
- vault.screee.ee — a Vaultwarden instance, aka. Bitwarden but entirely free
netdeneb.com — this website's old home; redirects here
- also the top-level domain for both of my home networks
- cloud.netdeneb.com — my own Nextcloud instance, since Google killed off "unlimited" Photos storage in 2020
- sync.netdeneb.com — Syncthing + File Browser, because Nextcloud Kinda Sucks™

Other things I find fascinating include:

digital electronics — because software is a pain
retrocomputing — limitations are fun
trains — being on them, talking about them
languages — mostly the germanic ones

TODO #1: One of these days I'll get around to creating a projects page. For now, look at my Github!
TODO #2: Document my network setup somewhere
TODO #3: Expand on the retrocomputing stuff

This website

This website was built by myself with SvelteKit. BoxIcons is used for all non-unicode icons, e.g. on buttons. Caddy handles the Files page, and another instance of it acts as an HTTP2/3 + SSL reverse proxy for this website as well as my other ones.

The full source code is publicly available on Github, here!