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Me, Thomas

Me, at work, with computer glasses and headphones

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.

Get to know me better:

my story
what I am up to now
gear and software I use

Contact info

Reach me on Mastodon 🦣 — or via email:

printf "%s@%s.%s\n" blog.contact cavelab dev

I read all email, but might be slow to answer 🤷
I don’t accept guest posts, sponsorships, or advertising.
I may publish your message if it could help others.

Find me online

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.

Here are some blogs that I have looked to for inspiration;

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.

Licensing

Except where otherwise noted, the original text on this website is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This means you can share and adapt the articles, provided you give attribution and share your modifications under the same license.

All code snippets, scripts, and configuration files are released under the permissive MIT License, allowing you to use them in your own projects without restriction.

Disclaimers

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Cover images are created using graphics from Vecta and SVG Repo, which are subject to their own respective licenses.

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