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Last updated on 2025-06-11.

Freelance SRE & photographer. Computer Science graduate, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Enjoy traveling and snow days. Self-identified as a cat.

This blog is where I post my random observations; mixture of mundane and magical.

The Internet

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Friends - Hyperlinks build the world wide web

Contact

Feel free to reach out to me on Nekoyue@Telegram, NekoyueW@Twitter, or nyayue@Discord.

Infrastructure

Working hard to defend my infrastructure against the perpetual chaos introduced in the production environment.

I host a number of interconnected servers, self-proclaimed as the Constellation Network, to serve as a personal production environment and rapid prototyping testbench. The infrastructure comes equipped with a basic prometheus observability stack.

My most often used Linux distros are Fedora and AlmaLinux.

This blog runs on Next.js, with the source code available at Nekoyue/Soda@GitHub. Articles get rendered from static Markdown files stored in a private GitLab server upstream. While web development isn't my usual domain, there's at least something mysterious enough to try out.

Gadgets

Devices I am using every day:

• MacBook Pro 16' 2019 (last model of Intel-based MBP 16)
• Windows 11 Workstation (Intel Alder Lake)
• Mini PC (AMD Rembrandt, hso)
• Ubiquiti UDM-Pro / U6-Pro, Aruba AP22 (cable management is fun)
• Pixel 8 (Rose), iPhone 15 Plus (Blue)
• iPad Air 4 (use occasionally)

Achievement unlocked: Type-C connectors on all the consumer electronics.

Pending: Going beyond the 10GbE home routing capacity (QSFP?).

Coding

Too many random projects. Legit multilingualism.

Had quite lot 
fun `with Kotlin`() = this.also { causes(excessive = "syntactic sugar").intake!! }.
Sadly I haven't got many opportunities to use the language much lately.

Currently writing an esp32 firmware in Rust for my e-paper display weather station.

The Society & Culture

Travel

Google Maps & Flighty did a great job tracking where I have been since around 2018:

Planning & Wishlist

• China - Lhasa
• Europe - Greenland
• United States - Seattle & Boston
• Canada - Revisit Montreal
• Japan - Revisit Hokkaido

Media

I am periodically obsessed with anime. Peek all my watched shows on my AniList profile uwu.

My favorite music genres are J-Pop and Kawaii EDM. Find what I usually listen to from this Spotify playlist.

I'd love to hear if we share any interests or if you have any recommendations to me!

Miscellaneous

GitHub@Nekoyue/Soda - Source code of this blog

Hello, World? - The first working test page

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