Nathan Laundry
On Life and Lab
Reformed productivity bro exploring 'The Good'
Enjoying Unix-like systems and Homelabbing along the way
Life
View all →Philosophy articles exploring meaningful living and the psychology of behaviour change. Drawn to existentialist thinkers like Camus and Sartre, and the challenge of bridging the gap between knowing what's good and actually doing it.
Lab
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Research Engineer building Cloud-based HPC infrastructure and python tooling.
Personal
Homelab with Linux, ZFS, Vim, and terminal-based workflows. Documenting the journey on YouTube.
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SpurHacks 2025: Doomscrolling - Understanding the Psychology of Infinite Scroll
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Lab
Technical projects and code with GitHub repositories
My experiment with automating educational content creation using Python and OpenAI's GPT models to generate Jupyter notebooks and markdown tutorials...
My journey into infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible to deploy Kubernetes and SLURM clusters on Proxmox, built for reproducibility...
How I automated the brutal 50+ step ZFS Boot Menu installation process with bash scripting, turning hours of manual configuration...
Life
Philosophy articles exploring meaningful living and behaviour change
The Antidote: A Book Review
A review of Oliver Burkeman's 'The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking' and thoughts on the negative...
Life and Lab 5: Automating DIY NAS Deployment
Planning a comprehensive NAS setup using Ansible, ZFS, and Tailscale for data safety, reliability, and reproducibility in content creation workflows.
Life and Lab 4: Why I Started Writing About Homelabbing
Exploring the journey from academia to systems administration, discovering a love for homelabbing, and why both technical skills and mindset...