Hi! 👋 My name’s Caleb.
Welcome to my little corner of Cyberspace 💫
This is where I blog about my various projects, tinkerings and thoughts in technology – and some other stuff too!
In short, the musings of a Battle Hardened Tech Noob 🤓💥
Why am I blogging?
My hope is that it will allow me to learn better, teach better and find like-minded lads and lassies to collaborate with.
If I learn it and I like it, I’ll try to write about it here.
Who am I?
I’m Caleb Trevatt.
- I was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 🐨.
- I grew up in Bali, Indonesia 🇮🇩.
- I’m now based back Down Under 🦘.
I’m a son, husband and father. ✝👨👨👦
I’m also a Software Developer 💾, Cybersecurity Student 🔐, Video Veteran 📽, Musician 🎶 and Writer ✍
By Day 🌅
I work as a Desktop Systems Engineer. I manage endpoint configuration and software deployments for the education sector. As part of a close-knit team, I also trade hats in technical support (walk-ins, onsite and remote)
When there’s time, I like to develop automation workflows to make life easier.
My tools of the trade include Proxmox, Python, PowerShell, Intune, Linux, Docker, LXCs, VMs, ZFS and the like.
By Night 🌙
As a time poor Dad, I’ve had little to show for my free time over the last few years… Recently, I’ve found inspiration to work on stuff again ✨
Stuff like…
👐 Open-source
- I’m passionate about open-source ❤
- I’ve contributed to several open source projects including Mycroft, Mods, Cursor, PyDavinci
- I also maintain some projects myself!
I built Proxima to do distributed proxy transcoding across multiple machines
🐧 Linux
- I’ve been a Linux enthusiast since 2009
- I first installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope inspired by my Dad’s 90’s guide to RedHat Linux.
- I mainly did it to squeeze out more performance from my Compaq Potato first computer.
🐍 Software Dev
- Long-time Python programmer
- Enjoy PowerShell more than I was expecting to 😬
- Know enough Javascript and webdev to be dangerous 🚧
- Going headstrong into Go is probably a good next step
- Keen to get more into functional programming (Elixir, Gleam)
- Have a healthy fear of Rust 🦀
- Long-time Changelog listener 🎙
Stats are looking a bit sad now that I don’t use GitHub for work…
☁ Self-hosting
- I’m a long-time homelabber!
- I started with a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB
- Use Proxmox, Ubuntu, DietPi, TrueNAS, Ansible, on:
Ryzen 5 5500 + 24TiB ZFS ZRAID2 + ancient (literally rusty) GTX 680Raspberry Pi 4GB + MergerFS + Crucial MX500 SSDs
- Docker, LXC, VMs 🏗
- I ♥ Cloudflare & Tailscale.
📡 Decentralised Comms
- LoRa is awesome! I have some cheeky TTGO T-Beam LoRa capable radios
- I enjoy hacking on mesh-networking with Meshtastic
- A fellow mesher and I established a 24KM LOS link between two nodes!
⚡ Workflow automation
- I love working on tooling to automate workflows.
- My love for automation started with AutoHotkey
- Especially robust, long runnin-tasks
- Performant distributed computing makes me happy (when it works) ⚡
🤖 AI
- I am fascinated by AI 👀
- I’m excited by the prospects of automation flexibility using AI
- WIth my background in film, I love the development of generative AI in creative arts!
- I’ve enoyed implementing cutting-edge AI solutions with LangChain, Flowise and GPTScript.
See more details on my projects here!
Who are you?
I’m always on the look out for opportunities to collaborate with like-minded individuals on cool projects! ✨️ If you’re interested, hit me up on on one of my socials or add a comment here!
