// 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.
"It's not a bug,— N. Pitschek, closing his 47th browser tab
it's an undocumented
feature."
Breaks things professionally
Years of experience making production systems fail in new and creative ways. Usually fixed by 3am.
Self-hosts everything
Email, docs, photos, passwords, notes, tasks, finances. If it can run in Docker, it does. On 10 VMs. Yes, really.
Writes WebGL shaders
Not because it's practical. Because watching your GPU melt for no reason is deeply satisfying.
Automates the mundane
Spent 6 hours automating a 2-minute task. The automation runs once a week. Zero regrets.
Over-engineers everything
Why use one server when you can use ten? Why have uptime when you can have uptime AND monitoring AND alerts AND a backup of the monitoring?
Hides easter eggs
There are at least 4 secrets on this page. You found one already. Keep looking. Or type help in the shell below.
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
🕵️ SECRET UNLOCKED
You found the easter egg. Here are some actual facts about this setup:
for a Bitwarden bug
// yes this infrastructure is real. yes it's excessive. yes i'm proud of it.
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