My corner of the internet
I'm Eloy, a software engineer in Madrid. Things I build because I want to, and whatever I'm currently taking apart :)
Most of it starts the same way. Something annoys me, or I want to know how it works, and a weekend later there's a repo. A few of them grew into real things with real users, and the rest taught me something on the way here.
About
When I was eight I found a tutorial on YouTube about how to make a web page. I wrote it in Notepad, the old Windows one, no highlighting, no autocomplete, and somehow ended up with something that actually rendered. Some HTML, a bit of CSS, and it worked.
I remember the feeling exactly: finally, my page is going to show up on Google :D
It was, of course, an .html file sitting on my desktop. Nobody had mentioned that this is not the same thing as being on the internet. I waited a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That part never really left. I still like pulling things apart to see what's underneath, which is how most of what I know got in. Linux is my daily driver for everything, and usually I learn something by breaking it first.
Projects
MOBA project
A MOBA that runs on Linux and does not need a kernel-level driver to trust you. Rust game server, a handful of services, a Tauri client. The biggest thing I have taken on.
Read the story →N Queens
A chess puzzle I brute forced in Windows Batch over one very long weekend, back when I did not know what a loop was. Rebuilt now with an interface that does it justice.
Read the story →Self-hosted Forgejo
My git runs on a Raspberry Pi in my house, behind a Cloudflare tunnel with no ports open. It started as an argument about an email address.
Read the story →InkCraft
A Minecraft paintball server I built over two weeks of one summer, alone in my room. Ended up on a real VPS with 20+ people on it, which is also how I ended up writing Java plugins.
Read the story →Garage Crossing
A car came out of a garage in front of me on the way to school, so the three of us built the thing that would have warned us both. Wood, sensors, LEDs, and a camera that reads number plates.
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