entropy approaches zero when the system is fully understood.

the difference between deploying and understanding why it deploys.

every abstraction is a decision to stop asking.

bare metal. the last place where you own all the questions.

RFC 2616 · the cathedral and the bazaar · /dev/null

somewhere between infrastructure and philosophy, there's a terminal.

what the config file knows that the documentation doesn't.

you don't understand the network until you've watched it fail.

كلّ نظام يحمل في طيّاته سؤالًا لم يُطرح بعد.

the log is the only honest narrator.

127.0.0.1 — the one address that never lies.

packets don't care about your intentions.