hello
i have absolutely no idea what i'm supposed to put here but i've spent the past few days turning a random vps into a pure bullshit box that does absolutely everything in the books, so apparently i also have a blog now too..
this is probably gonna be where i dump whatever i'm doing at any given moment. dev stuff, servers, stupid ideas, things i break at 3am and then spend like 4 hours fixing, music, random life shit, whatever i really want to share i guess
for an introduction i guess i'm mira
i make things on the internet, such as blacket, but my personal projects are a lot more messy, i start working on something and then i immediately find 6 more things i want to make. half of my projects start with "wait wouldn't it be funny/cool if i _" and then i suddenly have a domain, then a database, then 500 docker containers and an nginx config that looks like it was written by someone who is tripping their balls off (half the time this happens, i am actually high, so that's something... maybe?)
currently, softfault.cc (this is the site you're on right now!!) is slowly becoming its own small country
i have my own personal vpn (via WireGuard), password manager (via Vaultwarden), monitoring, random websites (such as ben.softfault.cc), other infra and now apparently a blog, god i have stooped SO low..
but i guess i'm having fun with my vps, and that's all that really matters, right?
another fairly recent development in my life is that i have a car now, i am currently being trusted with VERY HEAVY MACHINERY
which as it turns out, is an absolutely horrible thing to give to someone like me because it means whenever my brain comes up with an incredibly stupid idea, there is now significantly less stopping me from actually doing it
before, i'd think "wouldn't it be funny if i just went there" and then that would be the end of it because, yknow, i had no way of ever getting there
however, now i can think "wouldn't it be funny if i just went there", look outside, remember there is literally a car sitting there that i can drive, and suddenly the joke has become an actual plan
having that much freedom is genuinely amazing though. i can just get in my car, put music on as loud as i want, and go somewhere because i just feel like it. the unfortunate side effect of this freedom is that my definition of "somewhere" also includes places located in an entirely different state
which brings me onto today, where i did possibly the most me thing imaginable
i REALLY wanted tgi fridays (tgi is literally like the best restaurant ever it's so underrated)
one issue, the last tgi in phoenix closed in 2020 (oh my god, how has it already been 6 years?!?)
a normal person's response to this would usually be: "damn, that sucks. i guess i'll have to settle without tgi.."
however, my response is a tiny bit different: get in my car and drive 5 fucking hours from phoenix to orange county, cali, JUST TO EAT AT TGI FRIDAYS.
i stopped at a random love's halfway thru while it was approximately the temperature equivalent to the surface of the sun, continued into cali, and all of this was motivated by the fact that i REALLY wanted tgi fridays, enough to cross state lines for it.
however, i regret nothing.
this is probably a pretty accurate preview of what this blog is going to be
90% computers
5% music
5% me making completely reasonable and well thought out life decisions such as interstate travel for chain restaurant food
anyway hi
welcome to my blog thing
i might remember this exists