Andrew Ebsworth — systems & network technician
I build my own tools, and I document what I learn.
Linux, self-hosting and running. From the operating system to the training plan, everything running here is home-made — and written up plainly, outages included.
Three worlds, one method
Understand how things work, make them repeatable, and measure what you want to improve. Pick a door.
AffûtOS
My own Linux distribution, derived from CachyOS and built for gaming on the move. The install is fully automated: partitioning, packages, configuration and profile restore all run without a single question. A minimal USB stick is enough — the system is downloaded into RAM from my server over Wi-Fi, then the stick can be removed.
Netboot — checking status Latest post: La bonne piste n'était pas celle que je croyais 92 packages installed out of the box, ISO ready to download Enter the world Self-hosting worldThe server
A home server running Arch Linux: family photos with Immich, RAID 5 storage, nginx reverse proxy, automated certificates, virtual machines. Maintained, encrypted, backed up — it probes itself every five minutes and publishes its status here.
Services — checking… Storage — Uptime — Enter the world Running worldRunning
Target: a 10K in February 2027, with a sub-17 5K in sight this winter. Structured, data-driven training: paces, heart rate, load, recovery. Sport meets tech.
Latest run: 5.88 km easy run on 18 August (7'26"/km) Champs-Élysées 10K — 7 February 2027 578 sessions logged since June 2024 Enter the worldMachines and principles
The common ground behind all three worlds: little hardware, simple rules.
Machines
- ASUS ROG Flow Z13 — AMD tablet PC, my main machine, running AffûtOS
- Ryzen 4800H laptop — test bench for installs
- Home server — Ryzen 9 5900X, 64 GB, 7.3 TB RAID 5, Arch Linux
Principles
- Whatever is configured once must be repeatable
- At home rather than in someone else’s cloud
- An outage understood is a safeguard gained
About
I’m Andrew Ebsworth, a systems and network technician. My free time goes to a terminal and a pair of running shoes. I like understanding how things work — and running them at home rather than in someone else’s cloud.
This site is served from my own server, a plain static file behind nginx: no trackers, no cookies, no framework. Just HTML, CSS, and a pinch of JavaScript.
What I work with
Systems
Network & hosting
Code
Method
Contact
A message, a question, an idea for a long run? ebsworthandrew@gmail.com
Fancy a run together? my Strava profile
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