Hi, I’m Razeen. A tinkerer, and a backendfull-stack engineer.

  • 💼 Day to day: backend development / systems architecture / networking and security
  • 🏃 On the side: running, homelab, services I run, photography, anime
  • 🏷️ Labels: Gopher · Homelab tinkerer · Runner · Tool nerd

Skills and toolbox

Engineering

  • Languages: Go / Python / Shell / JavaScript
  • Infrastructure: Docker / Linux / Kubernetes / Nginx / Cloudflare
  • Storage and networking: PostgreSQL / Redis / soft router / WireGuard / bypass gateway

Hardware

  • Machines: MacBook Pro / a desktop I built
  • Homelab: NAS (Synology / Feiniu), a small server, a UPS
  • Desk: a mechanical keyboard, a 4K display

Why I write

A lot of the time we travel so far we forget why we left. These are the reasons I started, so I stay curious.

  • 2008, middle school. Status updates and QQ Zone skins were the thing. I posted to look cool, wrote diaries to look deep, and decorated the space until it was loud.
  • 2015, first job. A personal site felt cool, and it was one place I could publish without asking.
  • Then I spent a long time tinkering with the blog itself: engines, themes, CSS, SEO, caches.
  • Later I noticed writing was the best way to learn, and the way to turn scattered notes into something I could find again. So I kept going.
  • Homelab came after that. Sharing what I broke and fixed brought comments, and a few people who like the same mess.
  • Then the posts became scripts for videos, so the words and the video both exist.
  • Now there is AI, and I write fewer how-to posts. I want industry notes, trips, opinions, ordinary life.

About this site

An independent blog: technical notes, tinkering logs, and the rest of life.

  • Generator: Hugo (Extended)
  • Theme: PaperMod, heavily customized
  • Deploys: Git pipeline, self-hosted and cloud
  • Edge: Cloudflare CDN and object storage
  • Server: RackNerd. If you are signing up, here is my referral link.

How the site changed

2024 – now
A customized static theme
PaperMod, channel tabs, photo galleries, things I recommend.
HugoPaperModCustomized
2021
All static
Left the dynamic backend for a static site, for speed and for something I can host myself.
HexoHugoMigration
2015
The first one
The first independent blog, and the start of writing things down.
First StepBlog

Contact

Questions, corrections, or just hello:

License

Original posts are under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Link back to the post if you republish. Ask first for commercial use.