Breaks things professionally
Years of experience making production systems fail in new and creative ways. Usually fixed by 3am.
pitschek.net — a personal site that boots like an OS
pitschek.
A website by someone who builds infrastructure for fun.
This is what happens when you give a sysadmin too much free time.
Open an app, try the terminal, or find the four secrets.
01 / philosophy
“It’s not a bug,
it’s an undocumented feature.”— N. Pitschek, closing his 47th browser tab
I build infrastructure for fun: Linux, networking, self-hosting, automation and the occasional experiment that escalates into ten virtual machines.
LinuxHomelabAutomationIT & Networking
02 / capabilities
Things I do.
Self-hosts everything
Email, docs, photos, passwords, notes, tasks and finances. If it can run in Docker, it does. On ten VMs.
Writes WebGL shaders
Not because it’s practical. Because watching your GPU melt for no reason is deeply satisfying.
Automates the mundane
Spent six hours automating a two-minute task. It runs once a week. Zero regrets.
Over-engineers everything
Why have uptime when you can have uptime, monitoring, alerts and a backup of the monitoring?
Hides easter eggs
There are at least four secrets on this desktop. Type help in Terminal and keep looking.
self-hosted / apps
The useful part of the internet.
Each app is hosted separately and opens in a new tab.
04 / playground
Your GPU, hard at work doing absolutely nothing.
hover to disturb · click to explode · touch to smear
// this shell is real — type help and hit enter
Appearance
Choose your desktop wallpaper.
🌌 Aurora Blue
🌅 Sunset Glow
🌲 Deep Forest
🕵️ SECRET UNLOCKED
This infrastructure is real.
10Netcup VMs
3.5 TBNAS storage
~30Docker containers
1Python proxy for a Bitwarden bug
// yes it’s excessive. yes I’m proud of it.
Let’s connect.
Want to collaborate, ask a question or talk about an unnecessarily elaborate infrastructure project?
hello@pitschek.net