About

• Name: Paul Buetow
• Father, Husband, Computer tinkerer, Yogi, Science fiction lover, cat owner
• Born in: Germany, currently living in: Sofia, Bulgaria
• Profession: Computerist - Solving problems with computers that we wouldn't have without them
• Current job: Site Reliability Engineer
• Education: Diplom-Informatiker (FH) (Diploma from a German University of Applied Sciences, before they had international Bachelor and Masters programs)
• E-Mail: paul@nospam.buetow.org

Table of Contents

• About
• ⇢ Now
• ⇢ Next
• ⇢ My sites
• ⇢ Show me the code
• ⇢ Social Media and Communities
• ⇢ Books I've read
• ⇢ My gadgets and wishlist

Now

Stuff I'm currently up to:

• Listening to the Audiobook "The Courage to be Happy"
• Reading the eBook "Designing Data Intensive Applications 2nd Edition"
• Working on next ior aka I/O Riot NG release
• House refurbishment
• Being a father to my 3 year old daughter
• Learning Bulgarian for the bulgarian citizenship
• Learning how to use AI for engineering
• Reading "Children of Time" in german by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Birgit Herden
• Building my own FUSE-powered distributed file system HomelabFS on top of ZFS
• Working on next DTail release

Next

Stuff I'm planning to get to next:

• Working on next DTail release
• Releasing Gonf, my own configuration management system
• Read the FreeBSD book Integrated by Design
• Releasing GGaze, my own photo preview and optimizer tool for Linux.
• Releasing Player, my own media server with web UI and Android client.

My sites

My blog here at foo.zone
irregular.ninja - My street photography site (warn: multiple MBs, it's photos after all)
snonux.foo - My microblog (may be sometimes offline since it runs on my home LAN on Raspberry Pi's)
Gunrunners - My Shoot-Em-Up game mainly created with Opus 5.5

Show me the code

Project showcase
github.com/snonux - My GitHub page

Social Media and Communities

@snonux@fosstodon.org - Me at Mastodon
My LinkedIn profile
United Discord Server as Paul - Ask me for an invite if required

Books I've read

Resources, Technical Books, Podcasts, Courses and Guides I recommend
Novels I've read

My gadgets and wishlist

Gadgets I already own
Gadgets I still want

That's all for now...

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