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Jules
@leftysolara.dev
30+ | she/her/hers

IT professional working in higher ed

Hobbyist Programmer | Homelab Enthusiast | Digital Gardener | Game Master | FFXIV Monk

Website: https://julianneadams.dev
Links to all my socials: https://links.julianneadams.dev
Can't believe my partner called the server room "forbidden spaghetti". I swear it's not that bad 😭
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Audioslave was playing on the classic rock station. I have more life to live, goddamnit
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
There are people who scoop litter boxes and don't wash their hands after. This fact is terrifying.
December 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Is it weird that my cat spends like 15 minutes a day looking at himself in the mirror? He doesn't react or anything, he just sits there and stares menacingly.
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
"What are you eating!?"
- Every pet owner
December 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Why am i like this indeed.
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My personal website is super out-of-date and I've been meaning to re-do it, but I'm not sure if I want to stick with a static site generator (in this case, Hugo) or just write the whole thing from scratch myself. Doing it myself would be a good chance to finally learn Svelte, though.
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Tempted to start playing #ShiningNikki even though I'm already way too deep into #InfinityNikki and #LifeMakeover. I have no issues controlling my spending, but three dress-up games with dailies and lots of other content might be too much in terms of time investment...
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Best decision of my life was getting a partner with a Costco membership.
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The persistent storage for my k8s cluster is on my NAS and mounted over NFS, which is a problem for apps using SQLite. I've been running those apps on my NAS instead of in k8s because of this. I read that Longhorn can get around this, but idk if setting it up would be overkill for my tiny cluster.
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Migrating from Ingress-Nginx to Traefik Proxy with Gateway API has been much less painful than I expected.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It feels like it's only been a year since I built my current PC but it's actually been almost five, which is crazy to me. I'm still satisfied with the performance I'm getting, so I don't plan on replacing it anytime soon.

Time is moving so quickly and yet so slowly.
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Finally got around to making a Spooky Season outfit!
October 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#AnimalCrossing at 4am - 7am just hits different. So cozy ❤️
October 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Feeling fairycore today.
October 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Gonna try getting into Baldur's Gate 3 again. Maybe I'll actually finish it this time. My first attempt was a ~60 hour run where I got to act 2, then stopped playing because I got busy doing GM duties for my Pathfinder group. That group isn't meeting anymore, so now I have a bit of extra time.
September 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Autumn is just around the corner, which means it's time for a new #InfinityNikki main outfit!

I'm having trouble deciding on a hair color for it. I love red hair, but I think the blonde blends in a bit better and the brown is a lot more cohesive. Which of these do y'all think looks best?
September 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Good morning gamers!
August 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Cloud providers: "Use our managed Kubernetes infrastructure!"

Me: "I have Kubernetes infrastructure at home. "

Kubernetes infrastructure at home:
July 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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[doing things I’m bad at]
“ugh, I suck at everything”

[doing things I’m good at]
“this doesn’t count because it’s easy for me”
July 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In that time of my life where people ask how I'm doing and my response is "I don't even know anymore."
July 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Yesterday I went to my first #MagicTheGathering Commander Party. It was a lot of fun meeting new people and playing Magic with them! The event was Final Fantasy themed, so I just rolled with my Y'shtola precon deck.
July 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Good morning gamers! I hope you all have a wonderful day :)
July 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Good morning, gamers!

I'm not feeling great today, so I made some new fits to distract myself for a bit. I think they look nice!

The pink one is just Sweet Rhapsody with slightly different makeup. The other is mostly custom, utilizing a few pieces from the new Starry Path outfit.
July 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Been looking through the Group Policy options in Windows 11 and there's actually a bunch of really useful options in there. I might start recommending that we add some of them to our deployments at my workplace.
July 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM