hi, i'm naomi 💜

just a girl in tech.

who values simplicity,
but isn't afraid of complexity,

building reliable systems
for people and things.

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🔮 about

• 🔧 elder tech witch by day
• 🕯️ keeper of the deep uptime magicks by night
• 📍 raleigh, nc · she/her
• 🌐 amethyst.cv · amethyst.name
• ✨ i run as53546 out of my house, as one does

❤️ what i care about

designs first · pki & crypto · grammars & parsers · domains & types · semantic html & beautiful css

🛠️ what i like to play with

kubernetes (the hard way, on bare metal) · bgp & weird networking · distributed systems & consensus · java, c++, ruby · cassandra · postgres · ceph & lto · 802 & qinq · linux · strange bugs & jitters · anything that involves racking, stacking, or soldering

🧪 things i've built

• cluebot ng — wikipedia's anti-vandalism bot, co-created back in the day. still running, still catching vandals
• v1x1 — a distributed twitch/discord chatbot with a webassembly vm i wrote in java because, sure, why not
• runetide — a paused voxel mmorpg backend that was really an excuse to build a distributed-systems toy: per-region leader election, in-memory world state, redis-journaled for crash recovery. rune-grammar spells and procedural everything on top.
• tableflippers anonymous — a 20-node bare-metal k8s cluster in a colo that runs game servers and hosts a community i care about
• my homelab — 4 nodes, ~740TiB of raw ceph, an lto-6 tape library, a 40gbit backbone, and more 3d printers than is strictly reasonable

🌱 outside the terminal

d&d · singing · home recording · 3d printing props · fixing things at the component level with a hot air station and too much patience · hanging out with my partners and pets.

💭 things i believe

• people do their best work when they're not worried
• authenticity isn't a luxury — people shouldn't have to mask to exist
• autonomy matters; coercion and control don't stop being wrong because they're convenient
• emotions are data, not noise
• mistakes are for owning, not hiding. forgiveness is for people acting in good faith
• "you are not expected to understand this" is a challenge, not a warning

📬 reach me

find me on bluesky, the fediverse, or matrix.

... or, y'know, email me.

░▒▓ when i go deep

pcie over rs232 · ip over dns · superblocks & 0x00bab10c · cgroups & task_struct · nops & rops · idts & gdts · unreal & long · tlbs & iommus · unlikely(speculation) · fault, fault, fault^M^M

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