Hello World

If you are reading this, it means that my blog finally exists - which means I stopped thinking about making it and actually made it.

This site is my public workbench.

I'm learning Linux, DevOps, infrastructure, automation, and how modern systems are built and operated. Instead of keeping everything hidden in a private notebook (which will someday end up in a box, never to be seen again), I decided to document what I'm doing, what breaks, what I fix, and what I learn along the way.

Not as a polished "expert tutorial" blog - but as a real-time engineering journal.

Why This Blog Exists

I'm building towards a career in DevOps / infrastructure engineering. I don't have a traditional degree in Computer Science, but I do have a home lab, an obsession with learning how systems work, and a willingness to break things repeatedly until I understand them.

This blog exists to:

• Track my learning in public
• Prove what I can actually do
• Build a real portfolio instead of just a resume
• Share useful things I wish someone had written for me

What You'll Find Here

You can expect posts about:

• Linus internals & system administration
• Homelab builds and services
• Self-hosting, automation, and infrastructure
• Containers, virtual machines, CI/CD, and cloud-like setups
• Real problems, real mistakes, real fixes

If something breaks - it's probably becoming a blog post.

Why Public?

Because real engineers don't magically "know things" - they build, test, fail, fix, and document.

This is me doing that, in public

If this blog helps even one person avoid a few hours of debugging hell, it's already doing its job.

Welcome to The Mad Lab.

-Cameron