hi, I'm Mesh · engineer in Toronto
I build electric bus depots at work and servers at home, then I write down what actually worked.
Real numbers on money and home builds, from an ADHD brain that needs everything in a spreadsheet. The parts that broke stay in.
- years making things online
- 16
- construction projects
- 29+
- essays with numbers
- 9
- monthly hosting bill
- $0
what I'm into
Homelab
three used mini PCs in a Proxmox cluster, a NAS, and the 2am forum threads behind all of it
see the diagrams
Money
my real budget, a mortgage I argue with, and the three months I sold on Amazon
5 essays
Experiments
n=1 tests I actually ran, for months, with the data (mouth tape included)
4 essays
Career
data centres, a subway extension, electric bus depots, and what meetings actually cost
2 essays
latest essays
- The website costs $0 a month now · 2 min
- I taped my mouth shut for 16 months · 6 min
- Meetings are a tax · 7 min
- Building a daily writing habit · 4 min
looking for the how-to?
The step-by-step stuff lives on Informal Engineer, my lab site: homelab guides, weekly lab notes, and parts lists with what I actually paid in CAD. This site is for the stories behind them.
informalengineer.com ↗