netdeneb.com

About

Who/what I am

My name (at least online) is deneb. My pronouns are they/them, and I am somewhere on the aromantic and asexual spectrum.
I live in Austria — Innsbruck to be precise — I'm 23 years old, and currently in my 7th and hopefully final semester studying computer science (as of 2024-10). I am just working on my bachelor's thesis at this point, and looking to become a backend/systems engineer in the near future.

floof

In case you're unaware, I'm a furry. This means, tl;dr, that I have a deep appreciation for visual art depicting animals (anthropomorphic or otherwise) and the community of artists and like-minded people that has developed around it. deneb is my fursona, and on occasion I throw some money the way of artists to get them drawn in their style. Have a look at the Art gallery, because displaying the commissions I get is honestly my website's primary purpose at this point :3

What I do

My interests centre around PCs and digital technology (unsurprisingly).
I've been daily-driving Linux since 2019, having played around with Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, before settling on Arch.

I particularly enjoy computers talking to each other, aka. networking. I started off on Windows and so have some experience with Microsoft Active Directory (which I had running in the background until 2023!) and associated services, though most of my knowledge does centre around modern Linux and Docker. Besides this website with its handful of odd files available for your perusal, I self-host a few services:

Other things I find fascinating include, but are not limited to:

  • digital electronics — because software is a pain
  • retrocomputing — limitations are fun
  • trains — being on them, talking about them
  • languages — mostly the germanic ones
TODO #1: One of these days I'll get around to creating a projects page. For now, look at my  Github!
TODO #2: Document my network setup somewhere
TODO #3: Expand on the retrocomputing stuff

This website

This website was built by myself with SvelteKit. BoxIcons is used for all non-unicode icons, e.g. on buttons. Caddy handles the Files page, and another instance of it acts as an HTTP2/3 + SSL reverse proxy for this website as well as my other ones.

The full source code is publicly available on Github, here!