Hey nerds. This is where I break and build things. I’m Samara Eli and this is my neocities. Why Neocities and the retro design?
I started it when I got laid off at the start of 2025, as a way to catalog my side projects.
Some of these are documentation, as best I can, because a lot of what I’m messing with here is edge-case shenanigans like the Debian ZFS thing or the datacenter-location OSINT thing. I wouldn’t follow any of it as a tutorial; it’s use-case specific and mostly self-serving.
Others are research and writing. One thing I plan to touch on heavily is en-shittification, and the way we’ve engineered ourselves into a nonsense situation of competing standards and conflicting interests.