About me
The person behind all this stuff.
Hey, I'm Jurre. I'm from the 🇳🇱 Netherlands and I've been interested in computers for as long as I can remember. I've always liked figuring out how things work, especially the parts you normally don't see.
These days that mostly means Linux, infrastructure, networking, automation, security and building software. I learn best by actually building things, breaking them, fixing them and figuring out why they worked in the first place.
The machine
Most things I build start on my laptop. It's where I write software, manage my infrastructure, work on this website, experiment with new ideas and inevitably open more terminals than I actually need.
I've always used Linux on servers, but for a long time I stuck
with other operating systems on my personal machines.
NixOS is what ultimately
convinced me to make the switch on my laptop as well. I run it
with
niri and have
gradually shaped the system around the way I like to work. A
lot of the configuration is declarative, which gives me the
freedom to experiment and break things while still knowing
exactly how to get back to a working system.
I like NixOS because my laptop can be rebuilt from code, which makes experimenting with my system less scary while keeping my daily driver reliable.
The homelab
My homelab started as a way to learn about servers and networking and has slowly turned into a small infrastructure environment of its own. It's where I experiment with Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage, identity, monitoring, security and automation.
Right now it's under maintenance while I rebuild it around a completely new architecture. Some services are internal-only, others are exposed on the web, and a lot of the setup is tightly integrated with cloud services so I can test hybrid infrastructure patterns in an environment I still fully control.
