<p>I'm Aney, a developer, and self-hoster that enjoys art/design, automation, Unix, and those pesky Japanese cartoons. Yes, that's a straight up rip from the homepage, why re-invent the wheel right?</p>
<p>I set this website up as a means to share information to educate, and help people, as well as to easily point people to my answers for common questions.</p>
<p>A developer, and self-hoster that enjoys art/design, automation, Unix, and intentional living.</p>
<h2>What do you do?</h2>
<p>I'm currently taking some time away from work, but looking for places I believe I'd be a good fit. I love solving problems, optimising sites, and creating designs/experiences, so I'm kind of a developer at heart.</p>
<p>Outside of work I practise minimalism, frugalism (to an extent), and work towards Financial Independance (FI/RE). I also love the idea of OneBagging, self-sufficiency, and travelling, so these are things I'm trying to work towards.</p>
<p>I'm a web developer. Currently working for <ahref="https://www.360ss.com/"target="_blank"rel="noopener">360</a>. For more details, and previous employement check my <ahref="/cv.html">CV</a>.</p>
<h2>What else do you do?</h2>
<p>Ok sure, I'm (extremely) slowly working on the basic infrastructure, and website for <ahref="https://anetwork.uk"target="_blank"rel="noopener">aNetwork</a>, a gaming community, and public game server host. I'm also working on writing <ahref="/guides/">guides</a> on <ahref="/guides/guide-to-server-hosting.html">server hosting</a>, and <ahref="/guides/web-dev-101.html">web development</a>.</p>
<p>If there's ever anything else, you can find out more on my <ahref="/projects.html">projects</a> page, or on my <ahref="/blog/">blog</a>.</p>
<h3>What do you do, that isn't work?</h3>
<p>Outside of work I work on writing <ahref="/guides/">guides</a> on <ahref="/guides/guide-to-server-hosting.html">server hosting</a>, and <ahref="/guides/web-dev-101.html">web development</a>.</p>
<p>I keep a little <ahref="/blog">Blog</a>, work on other <ahref="/projects.html">Projects</a>, and often play video games with friends, read, or watch video media. I try to walk a few times each day, and do some very minor exercise.</p>
<h2>What do you own?</h2>
<p>Following up on the minimalism, it seem you've almost got to do an "everything I own" to prove you only have 6 items in your possession. I'm not that bad, yet, but I honestly feel like that's like my little hidden goal.</p>
<p>I've got a few pages about this on the site, so if you do want to know, check out:</p>
<p>Maybe this seems a little odd, but as I also practise minimalism, frugalism, and work towards OneBagging, Financial Independance (FI/RE), no-waste, and intentional living. I thought I'd add this, so I can have some public facing 'accountability' as such.</p>
<p>Red, a custom built machine sporting an R5 2600X, 16GB RAM, a 500GB EVO 970 NVME, and a Vega 64. This is my only device running Windows.</p>
<p>I currently still have this to play Windows exclusive games/games without Linux Anti-Cheat enabled (Smite namely) with friends. Once HiRez sort their shit, it's gone.</p>
<h2>Steam Deck</h2>
<p>I also have a Steamdeck, which will 100% be my gaming PC once games I need Windows for get sorted.</p>
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<h2>Gaming</h2>
<h3>Acer Nitro AN515-57</h3>
<p>Nitro 5, with an i5-11400H, 16GB RAM, RTX 3050, 512GB+250GB NVME</p>
<h3>Steam Deck</h3>
<p>I also have a 256GB Steam Deck (Original), with a 512GB SD card, for couch, and chill games. This is often accompied (for couch gaming) with a PS4 controller, and a Dock.</p>
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<h2>Media Consumption</h2>
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<h3>TV</h3>
<p>A basic non-smart TV from the good ol' days. I got it for my 16th Birthday, around 10 years ago.</p>
<h4>Fire TV Stick 4K</h4>
<p>Since my TV is useless alone, and I don't watch traditional television, this is plugged in to give me access to Netflix, Amazon Video, and Jellyfin.</p>
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<h3>Amazon Echo 4</h3>
<p>I don't use this for anything other than playing music. It stays next to the TV waiting for me to say "Alexa, play <ahref="https://youtu.be/6Zbi0XmGtMw?t=27"target="_blank"rel="noopener">We like to party, by the Vengaboys</a>."
<h3>Amazon Echo 3</h3>
<p>Same as above, but this one's upstairs so the music plays uninterupted through the house</p>
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<p>For shows, I use an old TV I got from my 16th birthday, that fuzzes when it's on paired with an Amazon Fire Stick 4K.</p>
<p>Youtube, and other 'non-regular' media is watched straight from my laptop, or phone.</p>
<p>As for music I use my phone connected to my <ahref="https://amzn.to/3VKp7d6"target="_blank"rel="nofollow noopener">Soundcore Mini 3</a>, or just listen from my laptop.</p>
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<h2>Servers</h2>
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<h3>Local/Physical</h3>
<p>pi1: Raspberry Pi 5 8GB, with a 240GB SSD.</p>
<p>pi2: Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB, with an 8GB USB, and <ahref="https://amzn.to/3RsTy5f"target="_blank"rel="nofollow noopener">4TB Seagate BarraCude HDD</a> connected by a <ahref="https://amzn.to/3Xp8Uvc"target="_blank"rel="nofollow noopener">WavLink Sata Dock</a>.</p>
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<h3>lilman</h3>
<p>An HP 290 G1 MT, with an i5-7500, and 32GB RAM. This <ahref="/blog/reducing-homelab.html"target="_blank">was my primary server</a>, acting as my virtualisation host, NAS, adBlock, and media server. It also runs git, my game servers, and anything else I feel like hosting at the time. A consideration is upgrading to a 7700/7700K, but UK energy issues had me switching to RPIs for a while.</p>
<p>Somehow you've landed on my website, welcome!</p>
<p>I'm a developer, and self-hoster that enjoys art/design, automation, Unix, and those pesky Japanese cartoons.</p>
<p>A developer, and self-hoster that enjoys art/design, automation, Unix, and intentional living.</p>
<h3>What this, then?</h3>
<p>It's my little place on the world wide web. It serves the purpose of being a one-stop location I can refer people to when they ask things, like:</p>
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<li><ahref="/cv.html#contact">Can I hire you?</a></li>
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<h3>Where are the pictures?</h3>
<p>I've written this website with the intention to keep it minimal, quick, small, and easily self-hosted. I decided that there was little reason to bloat the pages with images, that add little value, as all they will do is prevent people with poor internet from visiting.</p>
<h3>Wow! You're so cool, how can I support you?</h3>
<p>Thanks, although I disagree.</p>
<p>You can support me by sharing any posts, and/or pages you enjoy to your friends, or by donating to me via my <ahref="/support.html">Support page</a>.</p>
<p>If you've found my site useful, you can support me by sharing any posts, and/or pages you enjoy to your friends, or by donating to me via my <ahref="/support.html">Support page</a>.</p>
Nathan Steel
2 years ago