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Me, Thomas
I’m a father of three sons, the oldest two being twins. I live with my kids and wife in Norway. I’m in my early 40s and find computers with Linux, electronics and home automation things pretty fascinating. I’m also a big fan of red wine, Whisky, pipes and cigars, and cooking.
Between work and family, there isn’t a lot of time left. I use it mostly in my home office/man-cave. A 10 m² (108 ft²) room in the basement, where I tinker with my homelab and electronics projects. I try to write about it.
If you’d like to get to know me even better:
If you enjoy my writings — there is a feed you can subscribe to.
Contact info
You can reach me on Bluesky, Mastodon — or email:
printf "%s@%s.%s\n" blog.contact cavelab dev
I may publish the content of your email or chat, along with your name — if I think it could be useful to others.
I’m also on Github, Reddit, and YouTube.
Cavelab?
Well… My home office, man cave, server room, and electronics lab is a 10 m² (108 ft²) room in the basement — with thick concrete walls, and no windows. Kinda like a cave.
Blogroll
Here are some blogs that I have looked to for inspiration;
- apalrd’s adventures
- blog.kroy.io
- BrianLi
- Ctrl blog
- Intermittent Technology
- Jeff Geerling’s Blog
- Michael Stapelberg
- Rubenerd
This website
- code is hosted on my local Gitea instance
- statically generated by Hugo; using a modified Hello Friend theme
- built with Make
- hosted by Hetzner Cloud and AWS CloudFront
- DNS by AWS Route53
- search by Pagefind
- videos delivered with Bunny Stream
- written in Vim with the help of snippets
I aim to keep it simple, clean, and uncluttered.
Running cost
So what does it cost per month to keep a website like this going?
| Service | What | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Hugo | Site generator | $3 ❤️ |
| AWS | DNS, CDN | $3 |
| Plausible | Privacy-focused web analytics | $8 |
| Domeneshop | Domain name | $2.5 |
| Bunny Stream | Video delivery | $1 |
| Hetzner Cloud | Hosting | $5 |
| 💰 | Grand total | $22.5 |
❤️ I’m sponsoring bep on GitHub (not required)
License
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All product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. All company, product and service names used in this website are for identification purposes only. Use of these names, logos, and brands does not imply endorsement.
Cover images are created with graphics from Vecta and SVG Repo.
Privacy policy
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I am using Plausible analytics to collect aggregated visitor stats. No identifiable information is collected, I’m just curious how many visitors I have and what posts they read.