Hello!

I’m Mantissa/Twalaght¹/JC (he/they), an Australian computer idiot of ever widening obsessions.

Professionally I work in cybersecurity², mostly in education and automation, but fortunately get to dabble around in a little bit of everything. In other words, too washed to do pentesting, too hyperactive to write policy documentation, but just the right amount of autistic to adore developing in my niche alongside people I’m always learning something from.

Homelabbing gives me an outlet to experiment and learn outside of work, and was the primary inspiration for creating this blog in the first place. I’ve solved a lot of weird and niche problems and learnt a lot about managing my system over the years, and I hope that this can act as a resource for those on similar pursuits. All I can do is make it easy for you, or at the very least be somewhat interesting.

I’m in a perpetual love/hate relationship with the machines, and away from a computer you’ll often find me reading, running, lifting, or chasing full speed whatever tennis ball life throws me on a given week.

Any opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect that of my employer³. This website and all content; words, art, and code, were made explicitly without the use of AI. It’s all the result of my slow, squishy, often stupid, organic brain. Exactly the way it should be.