Rachelbythebay dev/sysadmin blog

[igor_kavinski]

Of particular interest to @Red Squirrel and maybe @Ken g6 as I believe they would understand her genius posts better than I ever could: https://rachelbythebay.com/

An example: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/05/22/ssl/

She's a former Google/Facebook employee and quit because of the toxic cultures there. She is kind of a truth warrior which I really like. Immensely gifted in rolling up her sleeves and getting down and dirty with cryptic source code. She also replies to reader feedback and my questions have been discussed in a few of her "reader feedback" posts. Some of her stories are too crazy to be true but I believe her because it's a strange world we live in.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Looks interesting, will have to read through more of the posts later. Her way of thinking about things does look really similar to mine. I was kinda reluctant to use ACME/Lets Encrypt at first as I just felt I'm putting so much reliance on so many extra tools and services to make it all work, I like how she dived into how it works so she can basically make her own tools and understand more what's going on.