hi, I'm Mesh
I build things (servers, spreadsheets, a truck, a career) and I write down what actually works.
Including the parts nobody tells you.
making things on the internet since 2010 · Toronto · hosting bill: $0 a month
what I'm into
Homelab
Proxmox, a NAS full of used SAS drives, and the 2am forum threads behind them
on the bench →
Money
real budgets with real numbers, a mortgage I argue with
essays tagged money →
Career
a decade of building subways, hospitals, and data centres
essays tagged career →
ADHD systems
the operating system that makes the rest possible
essays tagged adhd →
Builds
a truck, a house, a 3D printer that mostly listens
essays tagged builds →
Experiments
n=1 tests I actually run (mouth tape included)
essays tagged experiments →
latest essays
- The website costs $0 a month now2026-07-07 · 2 min
- I taped my mouth shut for 16 months2024-01-14 · 6 min
- Meetings are a tax2023-10-22 · 7 min
- Building a daily writing habit2022-11-16 · 4 min
two places, that's the whole system
The stories with numbers in them live here. The step-by-step procedures, lab notes, and parts lists live at Informal Engineer, the sibling site. If you came for the homelab configs, that is where they are.
informalengineer.com ↗