Full Stack Devops - Code - Infrastructure - Linux

Welcome to the Digital Garden of a Pragmatic Engineer 🚀

Hi. Welcome! Let there be Light!

I am Andrei Clinciu. I’ve been coding since I was 13. That’s 20+ years of navigating the evolution of the web. From static HTML and Perl (or C) CGI to over-engineered cloud clusters, and finally, back to the beauty of simplicity.

This site is my “Public Research Lab”—a place where deep industry experience and mastery meets the curiosity of “Beginner’s Eyes.” It’s kind of interconnected with my personal website

🎯 The 100-Day Vision

I am currently on a journey to document 100 days of DevOps, Architecture and Full Stack Development, with a long-term goal of reaching 300 days worth of content. This isn’t just a blog; it’s a live walkthrough of building high-performance, secure, and decentralized systems. It may take some time and the publishing schedule will probably not be daily as this is free content without any sponsor;). If you enjoy the content and want to support me, send me a message with words of encouragement or become a Premium user on the community forum.

What you’ll find in this lab:

  • The 100-Day Log: Daily “in-the-trenches” documentation of building a Private Hybrid Cloud on bare metal.
  • Pragmatic Architecture: Why I often prefer systemd over Kubernetes and Plaintext over complex binary formats.
  • Sovereignty & Open Source: My move away from Big Tech centralization towards self-hosted Fossil SCM and Gitea. Reducing costs, increasing privacy and adding much more automation power.
  • The Vault: Things I’ve learned over the years that I never properly documented on my personal site.

Minimal Artificial Intelligence Usage

I want to use my own intelligence therefore I’ll be using minimal AI. If I do use AI it’s for restructuring ideas, improving business writing or deep research. Most of which I prefer to do on my own anyway, because I like a challenge. Train your brain. If we all begin using AI all the time we’ll end up like the people in wall-e and idiocracy.

I recommend when you have a time to read the book “The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin” (Get it for free on GUtenberg!) written 1997! You’ll understand what began happening before AI was introduced, and how AI is a step in dismantling civilization and culture due to it’s brain rotting multiplier effect.

Use AI responsibly. Use your marvellous brain instead;).

Latest Milestone:

Day 1: The Static Foundation - Automating Hugo Like a Pro How I built this site and why a simple Bash script beats a complex CI/CD pipeline any day of the week.
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