Observed arrival · 2026-08-31
John Coffey — Boring Infrastructure, on Purpose
A Linux systems engineer’s personal site combines technical writing with self-built open-source infrastructure tools.
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The site organizes a long-running technical archive around a personal infrastructure practice, with 119 articles and a project index rather than a conventional services pitch. Its current focus is ihasmail, which uses JMAP for mail, calendar, contacts, and files and includes an IMMUTABLE=1 mode described as running without a volume or database. A second project, Cairn OBS, combines ClickHouse and Tantivy under one query language for Kubernetes observability.
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