Documenting my spectacular mistakes and hard-won victories across tech, home labs, crypto, privacy, and cybersecurity. Because the best lessons come from breaking things first.
From server racks to crypto wallets, from VPNs to zero-days. Here's where I've been and what I've broken.
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Hey, I'm the PixelFool — a self-taught tinkerer who's been breaking things long enough to learn how they actually work.
My home lab started as a single Raspberry Pi and somehow evolved into a rack-mounted monster that makes my electricity provider very happy. I've lost crypto to scams, recovered from ransomware, and once accidentally deleted an entire production database (we don't talk about that).
This blog is my honest, unfiltered record of every facepalm moment and every victorious "it works!" scream at 3 AM. If you're here to learn from my mistakes — you're in the right place.