Hi, I’m Bartek Mazurczak.
During the day I work somewhere between IT architecture and DevOps. I design a bit, build a bit, automate a bit, and sometimes clean up after decisions that looked reasonable at the time. What interests me most is the practical side of infrastructure: how to design something so it can be maintained, automated, and fixed when it breaks at the worst possible moment.
Professionally, I spend most of my time around systems, networks, automation, monitoring, virtualization, and the tools that help keep IT environments under control. I like solutions that are easy to explain and can survive everyday use. Not always the newest ones. Often the boring option is the right one.
After hours I run a homelab. That is where I test things before I start having strong opinions about them. Sometimes it is Proxmox, ESXi, Docker, monitoring, UPSes, networking, storage, or a small project written in Go or Python. For me, a homelab is part workshop, part playground, and part safe place to break things so I can understand them better.
Outside IT, I shoot IPSC. It is a good counterweight to sitting at a computer: movement, focus, repetition, and very quick feedback on whether you are doing things right. I like the mix of technique, procedures, and time pressure. It feels familiar if you have ever debugged production after midnight.
Photography has been with me for years. I take photos because it makes me pay more attention. Sometimes I document trips, sometimes gear, sometimes ordinary things that happen to look good in the right light.
On this blog I write down things I would like to find faster myself: technical notes, problem descriptions, short how-tos, gear tests, and homelab projects. Some posts are fresh, some are old. I do not pretend everything here is timeless. If something has aged, treat it as a note from a specific moment.
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