chris@mochajava:~$ whoami

chris@mochajava

Linux since the Amiga. Saguaros by trade. I've transplanted over 3,000 cacti and compiled at least that many kernels — writing from Magdalena de Kino, Sonora.

est. 1985 (Amiga 1000) · uptime: still going

cat about.txt

I'm Chris. I live on the Sonoran side of the border and work on both sides of it — trees and irrigation over there, servers and shell scripts everywhere. This domain runs on a small VPS I administer myself: reverse proxy, music server, and a growing pile of self-hosted services, most of which you can't see. That's the point.

Thirty-some years ago it was an Amiga 1000 and a stack of library books. These days it's containers, agents, and the occasional CTF. The desert and the terminal turn out to reward the same habits: patience, respect for harsh environments, and never trusting anything you haven't verified yourself.

ls ~/now

music/

A Navidrome streaming server for my personal library. If you have an account, you know. If you don't — it's invite-only.

login required

ls ~/pages

linux/

Getting-started tutorials from someone who learned it out of books and recently taught a real beginner — plus writeups: USB-gated SSH, self-hosting on a $7 VPS, CTF challenges.

live

mexico/

Honest answers to what everyone asks: Is it safe? What does it cost? How does healthcare work? Route-by-route, peso-by-peso, from someone actually living it.

live