About
- Name: Paul Buetow
- Father, Husband, Computer tinkerer, Yogi, Science fiction lover, cat owner
- Born in: Germany, currently living in: Sofia, Bulgaria
- Profession: Computerist - Solving problems with computers that we wouldn't have without them
- Current job: Site Reliability Engineer
- Education: Diplom-Informatiker (FH) (Diploma from a German University of Applied Sciences, before hey had international Bachelor and Masters programs)
- E-Mail: paul@nospam.buetow.org

My sites
My blog here at foo.zone
irregular.ninja - My street photography site (warn: multiple MBs, it's photos after all)
DTail - the distributed log tailing program
Show me the code
Project showcase
codeberg.org/snonux - My Codeberg page
github.com/snonux - My GitHub page (it's just a mirror of Codeberg, really)
@snonux@fosstodon.org - Me at Mastodon
My LinkedIn profile
Books
Books I am currently reading / listening (4)
- 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts; Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey; eBook (ePub)
- How to talk so kids will listen & Listen so kids will talk; Audiobook (Audible)
- 2005 - Okular; Alastair Reynolds; eBook (Kobo kePub)
- 2021 - Inhibitor Phase; Alastair Reynolds; Audiobook (Libro.fm)
Next books already in my shelf (8)
- Clean Code; Audiobook (Audible)
- Bash it out
- Positiv Wirkt: Wie du mit positivem Denken und Handeln aktiv dein Leben gestaltest (german); Armin Schubert; Paperback
- The Courage To Be Happy; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Paperback
- 1992 - A Fire Upon the Deep (german: Ein Feuer auf der Tiefe); Vernor Vinge; eBook (buecher.de)
- 2025 - Origin: Die Entdecknug (german); Andreas Brandhorst; eBook (buecher.de)
- 2025 - Origin: Die Erweckung (german); Joschua Tree; eBook (buecher.de)
- 2025 - Origin: Die Erloesung (german); Brandon Q. Morris; eBook (buecher.de)
Book wishlist (3)
- 2025 - Gateway - Frederik Pohl (german)
- Bozo Loop - https://rachelbythebay.gumroad.com/l/bozo-loop-epub
- Maybe Understanding Distributed Systems - https://understandingdistributed.systems (or do I know most of it already?)
Books I've read
Resources, Technical Books, Podcasts, Courses and Guides I recommend
Novels I've read
Things I am currently learning
- Bulgarian language level 4 (A2)
Things I want to learn (soon?)
- jqlang - Deep dive into https://jqlang.org
- d2lang - Deep dive into https://d2lang.com
- Advanced Prometheus Course at Grafana Labs
That's all for now...
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