Robert Melcher

I have been taking computers apart since a Pentium 4 I kept breaking as a kid. Every job since has been the same habit on someone else's hardware, with a budget and a change window.

Before it was a job it was a few years keeping Metin2 and CS 1.6 servers online for people who depended on them — the first time uptime was someone else's problem too — and then a first sysadmin role in 2018 (full story).

The homelab is where I get to skip the change window: whatever I can't try on production at work, I try there first, and most of what I write here starts as something that broke in it.

Online as merox: me from Melcher, ro from Robert, x from an old alias where 0x39 is hex for 57, my birthday.