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SysAdmin · DevOps

Linux and CI work that keep toolchain systems trustworthy.

Infrastructure reliability is part of the product path. When disks full, services down, or CI gives false signal, work still has to ship.

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Introduction

Meet me in the shell

Type whoami, mindset, or tools — a small read-only shell about a DevOps engineer.

intro-shell — sysadmin · soc · devops

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Portfolio Shell1.0

Portfolio shell ready.

SysAdmin · DevOps

Guest session. Type a command or pick a row.

guest@KN.dev:~$

Project index

Prefer Status, Details, and the detail page over the name alone. Complete means listed outcomes hold for a stated revision; In progress and Study are intentional.

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Technical notes

Notes on learning processes, concepts explained and an practical arena with Feynman Technique applied.

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Golden Age comic collage: a house under construction beside a UFO being taken apart, split down the middle
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Build the house. Open the saucer.
Jul 5, 2026 · 10 min read

You can walk a program from a requirement down to a binary, or from a binary back toward a design. Same road, two directions. A beginner essay on why you should practice both—including when the point is a flaw or a piece of malware.

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Recent notes

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  • Beyond the magic terminal box
    Jul 4, 2026

    The terminal window is not one process. Six layers from key to kernel, copies of environment, pipes, signals, and who actually holds the TTY—plus commands you can run to prove it.

    23 min·Linux · Terminal

  • Decoding “Everything is an object” in Python
    Jun 15, 2026

    Python’s slogan is a runtime contract, not poetry: values are objects with identity, type, and payload; names are bindings, not typed boxes. What it means, where it is honest, and where it bends.

    6 min·Python · Systems

  • Understand YAML under 10 minutes
    Jun 13, 2026

    A dense, honest pass over YAML as the language of pipelines: structure, types, gotchas, and the patterns that show up in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins-adjacent configs, so continuous testing YAML stops looking like magic.

    8 min·YAML · CICD

  • Von Neumann architecture — an overview breakdown
    May 22, 2026

    A working breakdown of the von Neumann (stored-program) model: shared memory for code and data, CPU control and ALU, I/O, the system bus, the fetch–decode–execute cycle, the von Neumann bottleneck, and how the idea shows up (and is bent) on modern MCUs.

    7 min·Computer Architecture · Foundations

  • tmux: the viewfinder is not the engine
    May 14, 2026

    tmux is a programmable session layer that decouples long-running work from the window you happen to be looking through. A how-to for junior engineers: four production situations, the expert mindset, and a complete script that builds a workspace without attaching too soon.

    10 min·Linux · tmux

Automate a mess and you escalate toward disaster.The true administrator speaks little, yet the system obeys.In the quiet art of precise words, order is restored.

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  1. Plan ➪
  2. Code ➪
  3. Build ➪
  4. Test ➪
  5. Release ➪
  6. Deploy ➪
  7. Operate ➪
  8. Monitor ➪
Plan ➪Code ➪Build ➪Test ➪Release ➪Deploy ➪Operate ➪Monitor ➪

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Exhibit Index

A visual scratchpad - living shelf of stills imagined exploring through natural language.

Get in touch

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