About

A terminal window running whoami and uname, surrounded by icons of a bicycle, a coffee cup, a book, and a shield

Hey there, I’m Ajibola 👋

I build things I don’t strictly need, on principle.

Four personal websites, and not one of them touches a database, because somewhere between “let’s start a blog” and now, I quietly wrote my own static site generator instead of just picking one. I run Arch Linux. You already knew that was coming. I’ve made peace with being the person who says it out loud.

I self-host more of my own life than is probably reasonable. A cloud drive I trust more than most actual cloud providers. A little notes app nobody but me has ever opened. A tool that watches stock options for reasons I still haven’t fully explained to my own accountant. None of this needed to exist. All of it exists anyway, because the alternative was handing my data to someone else and hoping for the best, and I have opinions about that.

The backups are where it stops being a bit and starts being genuinely serious. My system can roll itself back to before a bad update in about two minutes, and I know that because I’ve needed it, more than once, at hours I am not proud of. Then that gets backed up again somewhere else entirely, because a backup that only exists in one place is a rumour, not a backup. Call it paranoia if you like. I call it having read enough war stories to know exactly how this fails if you let it.

When none of that is on fire, I’m usually reading, watching something everyone else finished months ago, or out cycling somewhere that looked closer on the map than it turned out to be. I also, on a fairly regular cycle, promise this blog I’ll post monthly. I’m telling you this in writing so you have something to hold against me the next time it goes quiet for a year.

Underneath the jokes, this is really just what I enjoy. Not just that a thing works, but understanding why, and owning it end to end: the tools, the data, and eventually the mistakes.

If you want to see more of what that looks like in practice: Portfolio has the sites I’ve built, GitHub has the code, and RSS has the writing, whenever it actually shows up.

DISCLAIMER: This is my personal corner of the internet where I share thoughts, tutorials, and the occasional overengineered side project. The opinions here are entirely my own and do not represent my employer, past, present, or whichever one eventually finds this page.