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title = "About Me"
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date = "2026-04-09"
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author = "Scan"
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Once upon a time I ran a WordPress blog called BitBouquet. With the changing pace of my life, I made the decision to switch to a simple static site for my content.
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{{< figure src="/img/scan.png" alt="Scan" position="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" caption="Hello, I'm Hazel. Nice to meet you!" captionPosition="center" captionStyle="color: black;" >}}
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I love IT infrastructure! I believe that grasping the underlying technologies and systems that move peoples lives and businesses is an incredibly important asset in our modern age,
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and this blog serves as a testament to that mentality. I strongly believe in the power of FOSS, and the importance of self-hosting in this cloud-ridden, engagement obsessed,
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LLM-ified internet we all participate in.
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#### A brief history
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My journey with technology started after I graduated university with a bachelors degree in commerce, and a minor in economics.
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Despite that, I somehow ended up working as a supervisor at a certain canadian computer store.
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Through that job I re-discovered my love for computers and became interested in the deeper side of repair, and server technology. I started self-hosting a NAS,
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and got involved in various online communities which helped expand that curiosity into a real job.
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In 2023, I got a job with an MSP as tech, and eventually moved into an escalations role. It was an amazingly stressful job, with so many opportunities to learn.
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When people joke that MSPs are like an IT bootcamp, they're not lying!
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Fast forward to 2025, and I started an independant Japanese import arcade with my friends in Toronto. The business has grown to a point where I was able to quit my IT gig. We do contracts all around
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Canada for various gaming and anime conventions, all while running a downtown storefront.
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#### Projects
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- sweetgum: A stripped down v83 MapleStory server with a single map structure, designed explicitly to be a chatroom with a dress-up element.
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- bm2dnix: Continuation of the nixac project, a combination of utilities and scripts to aid in the process of running Beatmania IIDX on linux systems. (deprecated)
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- lycoris: A fully automated & containerized self-managed media library hosted through Plex/Jellyfin.
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- bitbouquet: Former personal blog that housed all my tech ramblings and personal stories about identity and transition.
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It used to run a public AI upscaler (waifu2x) that utilized a fancy CUDA container.
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- blossomworks: My multi-site, fully managed network stack. It hosts this website!
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