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<meta name="description" content="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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Hello, I'm Hazel. Nice to meet you! 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, 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, LLM-ified internet we all participate in.
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<meta property="og:description" content="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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Hello, I'm Hazel. Nice to meet you! 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, 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, LLM-ified internet we all participate in.
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hardclear
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<li><a href="/about">About</a></li>
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<li><a href="/posts/identity" >Identity</a></li>
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<a href="http://localhost:1313/posts/about/">About Me</a>
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<div class="post-meta"><time class="post-date">2026-04-09</time><span class="post-author">Scan</span>
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<div class="post-content"><div>
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<p>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.</p>
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<img src="/img/scan.png" alt="Scan" style="border-radius: 8px;" />
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<figcaption class="center" style="color: black;" >Hello, I'm Hazel. Nice to meet you!</figcaption>
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<p>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.</p>
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<h4 id="a-brief-history">A brief history<a href="#a-brief-history" class="hanchor" ariaLabel="Anchor">⌗</a> </h4>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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!</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<h4 id="projects">Projects<a href="#projects" class="hanchor" ariaLabel="Anchor">⌗</a> </h4>
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<p>sweetgum: A stripped down v83 MapleStory server with a single map structure, designed explicitly to be a chatroom with a dress-up element.</p>
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<p>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)</p>
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<p>lycoris: A fully automated & containerized self-managed media library hosted through Plex/Jellyfin.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>blossomworks: My multi-site, fully managed network stack. It hosts this website!</p>
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<span class="button__text">Identity through branding - my personal logos, banners, and designs from 2016 to 2023</span>
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<span>© 2026 Blossom Network</span>
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