Tech, Linux & Occasional Nonsense
adary.org
I installed my first Linux system in 1994 — back when getting online meant a stack of floppy disks and a fair amount of blind optimism. Three decades later I'm still at it: working sysadmin, developer, and DevOps engineer by day, incurable tinkerer the rest of the time. This site is where all of that turns into something useful — real-world Linux, hard-earned opinions, and the occasional unnecessary keyboard purchase.
The Reboot
This site has had more versions than I’d like to admit — a WordPress blog, a couple of redesigns, and at least one stretch as a glorified digital paperweight. Feature-light, support discontinued fast, the usual story. This is the latest incarnation, and this time I’m actually planning to stick around.
What’s an “Adary”?
Short answer: it’s me.
Longer answer: it’s leftover naming-convention debris from a corporate IT department. My last name is Adar, my first name starts with Y, and some long-forgotten policy decided my username should mash the two together. Not the most creative scheme anyone’s come up with, but it turned out pronounceable enough that it stuck — my wife included. These days, pretty much everyone who’s known me more than a few years just calls me Adary.
The Mission (of sorts)
I’ve been taking things apart — computers, systems, my own workflows — for most of my life, and somehow the novelty never wore off. What still gets me is the gap between technology that’s merely powerful and technology that actually works well for the person using it. Most of what ends up here lives in that gap: real configs, real workflows, and the occasional rant about software that made me want to throw a laptop across the room.
Expect Linux, terminal-heavy workflows, DevOps war stories, and a running argument with hardware about why it should just behave. The one hardware exception is keyboards. I will absolutely talk about keyboards.
Who This Is For
If Linux, Unix, or macOS is where you actually live — or your job involves wrangling cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, or one too many moving parts — you’ll probably feel at home here.
You don’t need a job title to stick around, either. Hobbyists, tinkerers, and anyone who thinks a well-configured system is a small work of art are just as welcome.
Contact
- Email: adary@adary.org
- Codeberg: codeberg.org/adaryorg
- YouTube: @adaryorg
- Discord: Join the server
More channels might show up here eventually — we’ll see.