flackey@devbox:~$ whoami

BIOS v3.21 — POST check OK
Memory: 640K conventional + 15360K extended ... OK
Detecting drives ... /dev/sda1 [256G SSD] OK
Loading kernel ... vmlinuz-6.1.0-devbox
Starting services ........ [ OK ]

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  Welcome to devbox — Fred Lackey's development log.

  Last login: Wed Feb 18 23:47:12 2026 from 192.168.1.100

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  3 new log entries since your last session.

flackey@devbox:~$ whoami

Fred Lackey
Software Engineer / System Architect / Builder of Things

LOCATION Tampa Bay, FL
FOCUS Full-stack development, cloud architecture, developer tooling
STACK Node.js, TypeScript, React, Go, Docker, Linux
UPTIME 20+ years writing production software
PGP 4A2B 9C1F E8D7 3B56

flackey@devbox:~$ cat /proc/skills

node.js typescript react go python docker kubernetes linux aws terraform postgresql mongodb redis graphql rest-apis ci-cd git

flackey@devbox:~$ ls --help

Available commands:

cd ~/blog # browse all log entries cat latest.log # read the latest entry mail flackey # send a message ssh github # view source repos

flackey@devbox:~$ tail -5 ~/blog/index.log

2026-02-18 Building a Self-Healing Deployment Pipeline with Docker Swarm

2026-02-11 Why I Switched from Kubernetes to Compose (And Back Again)

2026-01-29 Encoding Lessons Learned: UTF-8, Latin-1, and the Midnight Bug

2026-01-15 A Minimal Git Hook Framework in 50 Lines of Bash

2026-01-03 Reverse-Engineering a Legacy SOAP API Without Documentation

flackey@devbox:~$